Originally Posted by
Jemimagold
- Even if checking in 40 mins prior to take-off is late (not sure where this is written), it seems that as a common courtesy BA could have let us go standby on the next flt to MAD without charge.
BA
might have extended you this courtesy if you had been late inbound on a BA flight.
But I'm not sure why you think that this would apply to a situation in which you (a) flew in to LHR with a competitor; and (b) arranged your travel so that your connection would have been too tight to have been written on a single ticket.
It's not clear why you bought two separate tickets for this - normally, people do it either to save money, or to evade the Minimum Connection Time restrictions so as to try to achieve a connection that's officially too tight. But whatever the reason, you gambled and lost.