Originally Posted by
Bartinbrook
A friend of friend, taking advantage of the ex-EU option, was due to fly to Schiphol then back to Heathrow for a flight later that day to Hong Kong. He had allowed a few hours at AMS between the outbound and return flights.
The quote above suggests this was not a back to back turnaround in AMS. In that situation just allowing a few hours is actually pretty risky. Either do it back to back or allow for more than one thing to go wrong, or accept the risk. So in this case s/he should have allowed for the following flight to the one cancelled to also maintain the long haul connection.