Originally Posted by
AzureCao
I recently had a very similar experience. I booked LH F LHR-FRA-SFO with lifemiles and the first leg got cancelled the night before and LH rebooked us into AF F LHR-CDG-SFO. I had a much better lounge experience though

Maybe they got trained on how to handle these situations.
Anyways thank you LH

Glad it worked out so well for you but you were very lucky, recent reports of F pax being downgraded and LH playing hardball with compensation