Originally Posted by Pickles
Ooh I can just see it now: people praying for involuntary reroutes JFK-NRT so they can end up taking the JL flights in J... Sounds rather good to be true.
IIRC somewhere here reported being reaccomodated in JAL J when his VIP upgraded flight was cancelled. It wasn't that long ago although I can't dig out the link.
AFAIK the OP's post is the first time we've heard it being reported as a policy agreed amongst OW members.