Originally Posted by
percysmith
MCT is relevant pre-journey in the sense that if the amended transit time is illegal then it is the ticketing airline's job to reschedule the passenger.
Once the journey has started then it is the operating airline's job to fix protect the passenger.
Indeed. The MCT is relevant in ticketing. Should a schedule change cause an illegal connection time, then there is responsibility of the airline that had the schedule change to rebook the passenger . The airline did not change its schedule, the flight departure was just delayed
As far as service delays occur, MCT is irrelevant; what matters is whether the passenger actually misses a connection. If the passenger misses a connection , then the airline that caused the misconnection is required to re-accommodate the passenger
Some airlines do do this in advance and there are ( as mentioned above ) cases of wailing and nashing of teeth and complaints that the airline should not have done it since the passenger would have got to gate in time