OK. flight was heavily overbooked. they gave my friend and i 150 euros each...change of flight IAD-FRA-BRU. so we took it. still trying to figure out how to cash in these vouchers they gave us.
and now it seems the flight on friday (30 july) CPH-ORD is zeroed out. so i might try and do the same thing. i will say though, LH Y in the 744 is not that great, and i'm not impressed in FRA in general.
i'll give another update when i get back to SFO.