Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
Are they obligated to help when you have separate tickets? Some airlines/alliances will help as a matter of policy, but I wouldn't assume that this will happen, especially if you have no status.
Sorry, that was unclear! What I should have said was that they are obligated to help if you book all the segments together, not separately. It would be nice if they also helped if you booked the trip segments separately but with the same airline. You're right that it probably wouldn't work that way for the average traveler, though.