Originally Posted by
steve170461
I wonder how BA/court would look at someone arriving at LHR one day and their last leg to Germany was the next day so the bags have been checked to LHR. Said passenger then sleeps through the alarm clock due to jet lag and consequently misses the final leg the following day?
As said a couple of times: that is fine. Nobody will ever object if you do this once or twice. The question is if BA - if they can establish a pattern - can argue that you deliberately misrepresent your intentions and thus are committing fraud. Even if not serious enough to file a report they might expel you from their FFP.
I think that it is not even outside of their own rules. Other airlines have more clear clauses to prevent this, but the maximum consequence is cancelation of the ticket in question, which was what you wanted anyway.
TAs have more to worry about.