Originally Posted by
Smirnoff
More to the point, what's someone (who presumably has reasonably level of intelligence given his profession) doing booking an Air MightTurnUpMightNot flight, to somewhere he needs to be, without having a back-up plan in place?

Because I think (and please correct me if I am wrong) that FR is the only airline to fly direct to Berlin from EDI and if he is like me he will do more or less anything to avoid a connection in Europe.
Oh and never assume that a business analyst has a reasonable level of intelligence- some individuals I have worked with are best described as pond life!