Aspen

I was at TBIT tonight and saw VA 8 LAX-BNE was cancelled. Without a seven days a week schedule BNE-LAX-BNE how are displaced passengers accommodated ?

CPMaverick

Passengers would be moved to a different day or re-routed via SYD or MEL most likely. If no room on VA flights, then they would rely on DL, if DL is full, then people get rebooked on whatever seats VA can find.

This is one instance where VA's decision to run all their 777 fleet to LAX pays off. VA has 3 777 going to LAX most days, plus 1 DL 777 SYD-LAX. If one aircraft has an issue, they have enough capacity to reasonably recover (as they have plenty of flights to relocate pax between BNE-SYD-MEL). When they had flights to LAX and AUH with the same fleet, this type of cancellation would be a disaster.

I had friends flying this flight BNE-LAX and they were rerouted through SYD. The cancellation was known about 2 days in advance so some could have gone out a day earlier as well.

Nugget_Oz

As its a JV the DL flight is actually the same as the SYD and MEL VA flights so they actually just find any free space.

serfty

Happened to me some years ago - I was in front row Economy on VA2 and was moved to DL two weeks before the flight.

Meant I had to use the Skyclub in T5 rather the the better options that the NZ operated *A lounge at TBIT provided. To get a forward seat on that flight would have cost me USD135.