Originally Posted by
pianoamit
... I wanted to book my LHR-MAD segment so that it is on the flight that returns to LHR on the same aircraft (that way I can't miss my MAD-LHR flight and have my ticket cancelled).
I thought that if LHR-XXX was BA123, then the returning XXX-LHR (on the same aircraft) is BA124... However, when I try to book a redemption, the times of sequentially numbered flights don't always match... How do I know which flight is the one I need?
Isn't the best way to get the day's timetable for flights in both directions and work out the pairs of outbound and inbound flights that are being operated by the same aircraft?