Originally Posted by
Bartinbrook
Has anyone had first-hand experience of what happens when BA cancels your outbound flight, it being the first step in an ex-EU booking (albeit on a separate booking)?
I haven't had this happen myself, but the technical position is clear. Even if it's a cancellation or a delay to the LHR-AMS, that's a separate and unconnected journey from the AMS-LHR or LHR-HKG flights. There have been posts here about this from people who have similarly had to push to be allowed to fly the LHR-HKG (or equivalent) when they couldn't get out to AMS (or wherever) or couldn't get there in time.
This is a known risk. Options for reducing it inckude flying LHR-AMS the day before AMS-LHR-HKG, or flying LHR-AMS and AMS-LHR on the same aircraft. In the latter case, if the LHR-AMS is cancelled, the AMS-LHR will be cancelled too, so BA will have to try to reaccommodate the passenger on some other AMS-LHR in any event. So the passenger at LHR could (say) ask to be rebooked onto the next LHR-AMS and the next AMS-LHR, which would likewise be the same aircraft out and back.