I'm not inconvenienced by the A380 outages, rather QF are being inconvenienced on capacity.
Have just had two calls in ten minutes from Lucy in Reservations Sydney, trying to move me from PER-xSYD-NRT (all QF Metal) to PER-xHKG-NRT, with HKG-NRT on CX metal.
Call kicked off with the usual this is why, which I was able to say she could skip as I knew exactly what was happening. Also got talking briefly, and they've had to bring some staff into Reservation on 12hr shifts just to move people around to keep everyone happy. Lucy was still smiling, but you could hear the stress and almost exhaustion in her poor voice.
I was considering it, but they first wouldn't offer original routing credit on the flight which was a no-go
considering the goal I'm aiming for.
They called back five minutes later, stated they would offer original routing credit, but then she twigged I was a QP member and would be sans-lounge access in HKG. She figured that out just as I started saying it.
Suggested that if they can come up with a way to grant me lounge access in HKG and make sure original routing credit is applied, it's a done deal and I'll take the re-routing.
We'll wait and see if they call back, but I'm not hopeful.
skkng suggested via twitter I should have asked for J, but I'm not that much of a scammer.