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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RichardMEL" data-source="post: 2380209" data-attributes="member: 52678">How is this relevant? Pricing and availability change all the time and the cancel of the 1045 flight probably caused cheaper seats to be gone in Y on the 1pm. You also can't compare a rewards booking in J to a revenue fare in another cabin tbh.With respect, and I don't want to come across as too rude, but I think you've done fairly well so far given the separate bookings which was at the end of the day your choice to make. I'm sure now you understand why this was a risky idea, and unfortunately this change (and who knows if there will be further changes tbh) has impacted you but it's always risky off a long international flight to then book a separate ticket as a connection within just a couple of hours - I mean you would be in just as much strife on the day of travel if there was a delay in the flight ex-FCO (or it was cancelled, or whatever - not trying to tempt fate here!. I understand you had problems booking online and took the gamble.So QF offering to link the bookings is something (though tbh I am uncertain how actually helpful this is in reality) and request the 1pm seat for you (and again as a request well who knows what will happen there) - these seem fairly reasonable given they could, in reality, tell you "tough luck" or just put you on that 10:20pm flight without even attempting to get you something more reasonable - because technically they don't have to.Of course I hope this works out in your favour, though tbh I think you'd be VERY lucky to get a J reward seat released. Indeed I just looked and QF938 is only showing J4 D4 on a 737. Y looks OK and you could get that, or the 2315 flight on an A330 which is open in J and thus you may need to organise a day room or something in PER as a last resort and hope you can get some sleep. I think you may need to aim for a Y seat on the 1300 so you get into BNE and have the night there before working the next day. Unfortunately these are the kind of gotchyas that happen from time to time that can be learning experiences and a reminder to us all (and just so I don't come across as a know-it-all jerk I can admit to having done something quite similar myself about 5 years ago where I figured a 4.5 hour connection at LAX was more than enough and I took the gamble - and I knew there was lots of protection on my onwards flight to DEN should things go south - which they did when QF was delayed 4 hours and I missed my flight) - so it happens. At least at this point you potentially have some  options over the next si or so weeks. However hopefully they open something up for you on QF938. Probably in Y, but hopefully in J.good luck</blockquote>

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