Originally Posted by
Soriak
For example: My first leg of a connecting ticket (US-EU) is delayed by a half hour, and Norwegian told me they will rebook me to a later flight (4.5hr longer layover). If I wanted to risk the original connection, they said they would not honor the remainder of the ticket as I'm now aware already that I'd have less than a 1hr layover. Plus, no meal voucher (or anything else).
Originally Posted by
Smiley90
if you make a booking where a measly 30min delay ruins your travel plans that's not the airline's fault... They offered you another flight ONLY 5 hours later, that's the best possible outcome here. So no, if everyone with a 30min delay got compensation that'd be a huge number of flights. Make bookings with longer layovers...?
Now wait a minute here. As I read it, OP booked a connection with an MCT legal connection. A small delay on on the inbound dropped the connecting time below MCT, but presumably still within PCT (possible connecting time). He was rebooked to a later connection proactively and not allowed to try for the original connection without assuming all the risk. If this happened to me, I'd be pretty pissed. MCTs have some padding in them, precisely for this reason.
Book a flight with a longer layover? The longer layover sounds like exactly what OP wanted to avoid.