Earlier flight on a Qantas red e-deal?

[DeKa]

I have not had the check in terminals offer earlier flights to be, but have asked (on an $85 SYD-MEL flight) and they said yes and moved me to an earlier flight.

As others have said I think it depends on how full later flights are, and if they think they need space on those later flights. I guess once the aircraft has departed, it's wasted space.

 

[JohnK]

Spot on.

I don't think any of us on red e-deals expect to be put on an earlier flight but QF can try to lighten the load on later flights by movng people around.

 

[tuapekastar]

AKL-SYD-MEL at Easter, on what I presume were Red-E deals (I booked the cheapest I could) we got offered an earlier SYD-MEL flight at the transfer desk at SYD because "there is a delay with your original flight". Meant moving from a 332 to a 738 but happily took it.

 

[Mal]

As I posted elsewhere here, I had a Red-e-deal a few days ago that was due to leave around 7pm. Had finished what I wanted to do in that city, so went to the airport to try my luck.

Used Quickcheck. It offered earlier flights. Selected an earlier flight, but it then errored out.

Tried again, and it let me check into that earlier flight, change seats etc and print BP. It did indicate that my flight had been changed for operational reasons.

So I was home around 3 hours earlier.

Strangely, I checked my booking online, and it asked me to "confirm" a schedule change. I confirmed, and then it actually allowed me to check-in to my flight again online.

Very strange.

Oh, and I don't believe my original flight was cancelled.