Originally Posted by
GUWonder
The following is not true with regard to what Oneworld carriers had previously guaranteed:
So you keep saying without providing proof... While OW carriers have generally been helpful and in many cases provided protection, although sometimes after a lot of pressure, I don't believe (apart from AA) that it has every been official policy, and I had always viewed connecting flights as a risk
(yet have done a number myself - including turnarounds in countries where I didn't have a visa eg KHI)
As an example, from a post on this topic on the AFF board:
Last year my TA had booked 3 tickets in the same PNR, one of the ticket was a BA operated flight marketed by AY connecting to a QF flight. I was no show on the QF flight due to a 4 hour delay on the BA flight. BA was not able to rebook me on QF (computer says no) and the agent kept repeating that these were separate tickets, so I was not protected anyway. To make a long story short, after multiple calls to QF and being told to pay the no show fee (which was eventually not charged) QF rebooked me on a later flight. So I'm not sure if airlines protect PAX connections if separate tickets in a single PNR. Or maybe I should have called AY? But neither QF nor BA told me that AY was responsible as marketing carrier of the first flight.