My daughter and I did a status run/family visit over the weekend.
BNE-MEL-LST in J went ok, although we arrived into LST nearly 2 hours late. Luckily, the plane we were on BNE-MEL was also doing MEL-LST with the same crew.
While waiting in LST airport for the LST-MEL-BNE in J return flight, we were informed that our LST-MEL flight had "technical issues".
We were put onto the LST-BNE direct flight in economy as the delayed LST-MEL would have missed the connection in MEL.
A bit peeved as I was looking forward to the J experience again.
After suffering two VA flight cancellations back in November where I never ended up being able to reach my destination, I'm yet to decide whether it is unfortunate coincidences or the new norm for air travel.
I will have search the forums for "original routing credit"...