I was also notified end of Nov about change in flight. LAX-NRT in F arriving in the afternoon automatically assigned to LAX-HND arriving at night. VS redemption so I called VS and they couldn't do much because the other LAX-NRT flight was not available on their screen (shows as Waitlist on ANA also). Not sure if calling ANA will help.

Last week, also had a CX SIN-HKG flight morning flight in F canceled and reassigned to 1 am flight. AS redemption so I called AS to get later morning flight and CSR was very helpful. She put me on hold while she called someone at CX and because it was because CX that was canceling flights, they accommodated and put me on the flight I wanted. All done on the same call.

Wondering if anyone had similar experience with VS where CSR can call ANA to figure this out?

I'd imagine me calling ANA will not get me too far?