I know this is touched on in an earlier thread but I wondered whether I can get some advice. I am looking at flying London to Colombo on holiday with my family, and I notice that the website is offering me a 40 minute transfer time between flights. This seems rather 'tight', given that we will have lots of luggage, and of course there are no air bridges at Doha.

Is this sensible? What are our chances of making it, and our luggage? My alternative is to book an earlier flight out of Heathrow which gives a far longer turnaround but that will mean an insanely early start from our house.

What will happen if we miss the connection? Will we just get dumped on the next available flight (potentially a long way off) and told to wait in the terminal, or put up in a hotel?

We will be in Business Class

Anyone any experience of what happens when you miss a flight? What would you do?

MTIA