Hmm, what a booking change by Qantas

[FlyboyAl]

We are headed to the good ol' US of A on Feb 14, and tonite I got an email from our friends at QF asking me to confirm a flight change.
We have changed from a leisurely departure out of ADL at 10.50am to Sydney, then to LAX to a 7.30 out of Adelaide, to Mel to LAX.
We also had our flight home changed from a 747 to a 380 and we now come in via Melbourne instead of Sydney.
It doesn't fuss me too much, but it does seem a major change in flights etc.
Have looked at CMT and I cannot even get a seat number for either 380 flight at the moment.
I gues it means we have more time in LA for shopping!!!!!

 

[11sjw]

Yes that is quite a change.

We rang and complained once when the change was "You're in J but you may not get the Skybed you booked." Turned out great for us as we got off the LAX via AKL and got on Melb-LAX direct.

Moral, if you aren't that happy about it, it can't hurt to ring up and ask for something else.

 

[FlyboyAl]

Err, how long have the 380's been flying out of Mel?

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Have looked at CMT and I cannot even get a seat number for either 380 flight at the moment.

Might be worth calling QF and asking if they can ring through to seating to get a couple of seats released so you can get two allocated together seeing as though they instigated the change at this late stage.

Cheers

Oz

 

[docjames]

Call QF and talk thru your options, they may be able to switch you to more convenient timings (eg. they may be put you ADL-MEL-LAX or ADL-MEL-AKL-LAX when they could still do ADL-SYD-LAX.

Better than just clicking "accept".

 

[oz_mark]

Err, how long have the 380's been flying out of Mel?

Pretty much since QF first got them.

 

[FlyboyAl]

Guess that shows how long it is since I flew international out of Mel!

 

[dajop]

Err, how long have the 380's been flying out of Mel?

Since QF started flying A380's... first flight was out of MEL (SYD followed hours, or was it a day, later)

Looking at the pluses of the change, IFE is better on the A380. And transfers at MEL are much easier than at SYD. Shame about the less leisurely departure.

 

[harvyk]

Since QF started flying A380's... first flight was out of MEL (SYD followed hours, or was it a day, later)

Looking at the pluses of the change, IFE is better on the A380. And transfers at MEL are much easier than at SYD. Shame about the less leisurely departure.

I believe it was a 2 days later, as it first did QF93 MEL-LAX then QF94 LAX-MEL, then it did QF11 SYD-LAX (so no doubt a MEL-SYD non revenue flight in there somewhere) I believe that it was a couple of months before they got A380 number two running revenue flights.