Originally Posted by
cbn42
Let's say I'm flying from A to B to C, all on the same airline and same ticket. I have a layover in B of 1 hours 44 minutes.
I would like to spend the night in B and then fly to C the next morning. Normally 1 hours 44 minutes is plenty of time for a domestic connection without a terminal change, but what if I took my nice sweet time at the airport and "missed" my connecting flight? Will the airline be obligated to put me on a flight the next morning (my flight is the last one of the day) or will they say that 1 hours 44 minutes should have been more than enough time and it's my fault for missing it?
Various possible options including the following:
1. confirmed for free on another flight on the same airline;
2. placed on a wait/standby-list for free;
3. required to pay a fee and/or fare adjustment to get confirmed for another flight or to get placed on a wait/standby-list.
For example, I missed a connecting flight at AMS by less two minutes (originally scheduled transit time was 60 minutes) and got sent to the transit desk to get my situation fixed. KL's idea of fixing my situation? Telling me to buy a new ticket if I wanted to fly out of AMS.
Being a Skyteam Elite Plus customer a couple times over did me no favors either.