It was out of the ordinary and it has been a long time between drinks (pun intended) since this has happened, only once in the past 2-3 years.
I had made the booking a few weeks earlier MEL-SYD-CHC. Things changed and I realised that I would be in BNE on the day of the flight. After calling QF to see what could be done e.g. BNE-CHC or BNE-SYD-CHC or just not catching the MEL-SYD leg but was advised that if I did this remaining flights would be automatically cancelled. After the calculations were in the price difference in re-routing and change fees it was just cheaper to catch a BNE-MEL flight.
On arrival at MEL I went to the lounge got moved to an earlier flight, on boarding it was the same crew I had flown with from BNE. They more than like just felt sorry for me.
It was a nice gesture, the wine was nice so I was a bit disappointed not being able to accept it.
