Originally Posted by
fatbob
It’s not really with any particular element. The split between the three is somewhat arbitrary anyway I suspect. It’s more the fact that it seems rather odd for me to take two unnecessary flights, in a round trip, on the same day, with only an hour or so stopover in order to same 150 pounds.
But isn't this exactly the same issue as with all the ex-EU trips that people do when such a routing offers a cheaper fare? If you book an AMS-LHR-LAX ticket, and you then happen to find that you're going to be in London two days earlier for other reasons, nobody would expect the "sanity" of BA waiving its right to re-price the ticket using a higher LHR-LAX fare - even if the passenger actually demonstrably lives in Amsterdam.