Originally Posted by
QRC3288
Regarding flying Swiss, to the folks dismissing it....I think you're kinda over-exaggerating here. Lufthansa owns both Swiss and Austraian. I've had Lufthansa re-route me on Swiss before. I imagine if the Austrian flight was going the next day with seats, the OP would've been re-routed via VIE to ZRH and had a similar if not slightly worse situation than he received with CX via LHR. Anyway, I don't think it's as bad as some are implying...Swiss = LH Group.
I didnt know that the Austrian flight leaves so early in the day, so I was only considering the two midnight departures on LH/LX, midnight departures on SQ via SIN or possibly daytime departures on any star alliance flight departing China. But then OP would have had to switch too many planes, I'm sure he wouldnt have enjoyed that given that he was angry about his connection through LHR.
I once had the situation the other way around, where I was flying LX MXP-ZRH-HKG and my MXP-ZRH was delayed. Upon arriving at the service counters in ZRH they offered me LX 24h later or LH with connection in MUC/FRA but also with a 24h delay.
I kindly asked them to book me on SQ ZRH-SIN-HKG which left before noon, thus I arrived a good few hours before I would have. It also gave me the one time opportunity to fly SQ J with an LX J ticket that only cost me 1800 Euros.