We have the same issue in PER with 71/72 and retimings on the 77. It was addressed in the wider context of how this doesn't seem to be consistent with their statements on Asia, and the short version was that we put the planes where the pax are.
Well, to be fair it is consistent with the Asia strategy, just not fairly servicing the entire country. Even if 80% of the population resides on the eastern seaboard.
I did bring up these issues with Lesley. She mentioned something along the lines of what you were told, and also confirmed my suspicion that the current fleet is being stretched (so of course what's happening is that more services from the eastern seaboard is being serviced in trade for less services in the west - not ideal, but they need more aircraft).
Hope those Boeing 787-900s are going to come soon, because they can't appear fast enough. Hopefully without faulty batteries.
I paid for mine as an ODU, still 10k pts well spent.
Mind you, the pork omlette left a little to be desired on SYD-PER. Didn't feel too flash after eating it (stomach started auditioning for the next Cirque Du Soleil tour). Made a point of calling up a Customer Care Exec to flag it just in case there's been any further reports on that dish or day that show a pattern.
A pork omelette for an all-day meal main course? What the hell? For breakfast main course, sure, but for all-day meal, seriously?
I suspect the other option was a salad. I'd also suspect it must be somewhat better than the omelette.
Other than that, I assume you had a nice trip home. I did too, on a refurbished 767. Full to the gills in J. Wish the flight was longer. We had a choice of some kind of Mediterranean chicken plate, or zucchini and basil soup. I took the soup, which was OK. The bread was edible