That is really interesting piece of information, thanks for sharing jagmeets! ^

I realise the thread is a few days old and the questions asked in the meantime are answered, but when I came across it I remembered a similar scenario, and I have for a long time been wondering about this: How would one likely be treated if one had two seperate tickets not on different, but the same OW airline and missed the connection? Especially if the connection was tight?

To give a precise example, I have been in a situation last year where I decided not to book a tight onward connection on the same airline on a different ticket - coming from New York on BA arriving at LHR on the Friday before Christmas, I required an onward ticket to Hamburg - the next flight, 75 minutes after scheduled arrival, would still have been quite affordable, the one after (with a few hours in between) was about three times as much. I was pressed for time to arrive in Hamburg that evening, so had no choice of changing airports and little choice of other airlines at better prices. (At time of booking the TATL I did not yet know I would ave to fly onwards on the same day.) Not being aware of that un-published policy, I chose to bite the bullet and go for the safe, expensive option. Good thing, because my flight from JFK (one of the last of the day, which don't tend to have good on-time statistics as I only found out afterwards) was delayed by about half an hour and I probably would have missed that connection. So I was wondering what had happened to me had I booked the tight connection - I'm curious now whether anybody has any experience how that would play out when one misses such a very tight connection that can almost be expected to be missed (despite meeting MCT) - any hope for sympathy from BA (or any other non-AA OW airline for that matter) or would they likely just deny the existence of such an internal policy (which, given it is not published, one could not argue with)?

(Also as somebody else has I think asked earlier in this thread, jagmeets, would you mind sharing a copy of the original correspondence, as a screenshot or similar? Might be a better thing to wave at people at the airport rather than just quoting an FT post. )