Originally Posted by
love_flying_hate_strikes
But I guess what you are saying is, if you don't want to rely on them getting you to LHR, say, the following day, you should grab your bags if they are checked in and try to find another flight into LHR which maybe isn't FUBAR'd which would allow you to get on the original ex-LHR leg?
If your l/h ticket is AMS-LHR-xxx then you
have to rely on BA get you - or more explicitly rely on BA
to arrange to get you - from AMS to LHR, you can't just find your own way to LHR. If you do, you'll find BA have cancelled your ticket once you failed to show up for the AMS-LHR sector.