Originally Posted by
Ber2dca
Those cases present a disruption of service which can only be justified in certain extraordinary circumstances. A passenger who booked JFK-LHR-DUB getting off at LHR does not present any sort of service disruption ...
Originally Posted by
Greg66
- the NYC-LON direct flight; the National Express coach travelling from A to B on the motorway; the bus travelling between stops. These aren't illuminating parallels, for the simple reason that there is no practical opportunity to divert the plane, stop on the hard shoulder, and buses don't stop between stops. But that's nothing to do with the discussion here.
It's highly relevant, because it illuminates the question of whether you can agree that you give up the right to free yourself of the airline or bus company's clutches en route. In both of these cases, clearly you do give up that right.
Now, what's the difference between that and the situation in which there is an intermediate stop?
If your agreement with the airline or bus company is that you only give up the right to free yourself of its clutches if getting off early would cause a disruption to the service, then you may well have the right to stop travelling at the intermediate stop.
But if your contract is that you give up the right to stop travelling whether or not it would cause a disruption to the service (or to put it another way, you agree that you will continue to the ultimate destination and not stop travelling at the intermediate stop), then the fact that there is an intermediate stop is irrelevant.
Which is why one has to go back to the contract. As I (and others) say, there are some airlines that make this clear - but BA doesn't.