Originally Posted by
Calchas
2. No showing is allowed at a 125 USD penalty, so your onward sectors will not be cancelled. BA will probably protect you anyway if you included this kind of (in my view) absurdly generous contingency for a 40 minute flight.
Agreed. To make it more likely I would check into both flights early. With both flights checked in you are much more likely to be handled well in case of disruption.
Originally Posted by
Calchas
4. in L class you will get points for most of your sectors into BAEC but I think you will be short of lounge access.
One option this year would have been to credit to AA and take a platinum challenge which would only require 10k miles flown (in L on BA/AA/Jal/Qnatas) for lounge access. But it looks like the scheme is being withdrawn this year:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...ec-2015-a.html
I can imagine there will still be ad hoc AA status challenges programs though so I'd say it's worth keeping an eye out come the new year.