Originally Posted by
Buster
Thanks for posting. Unfortunately, it looks like our HAM-LHR flight is the one that seems to be cancelled rather consistently. Does anyone have any experience as to what happens when your flight is cancelled and you're connecting? We are already on the last LHR-LAX flight of the day, so we can't take a later HAM-LHR flight. Will BA automatically rebook us, or are we going to be left scrambling to re-route ourselves?
Getting a bit stressed, and wondering if we need to scrap the whole holiday.
I wouldn't scrap the holiday, there are lots of ways around this. For starters there are six flights from HAM that day, including one to LCY which isn't affected by this dispute. Now going from LCY to LHR isn't anyone's idea of fun, but it's not too bad and certainly wouldn't warrant cancelling a holiday. In any case there is an overnighter flight leaving HAM for LHR at 07:05 which is logistically difficult to cancel.
If BA does cancel the flight usually a day or two later BA.com will reflect a new schedule for you. The cancellation goes immediately then an alternative set of flights will populate your PNR after a day or so, provided it isn't codeshared or something odd like that. LAX will be an easy one to resolve.
But to answer your question, if you ring up and propose to go with Eurowings then the agent will probably advise you that you risk cancelling your onward connection, since the agent won't have the ability to rebook on to that. However the HAM airport staff would be able to rebook you (but it would be unlikely to get that far). However if you do make your own way to LHR, missing the HAM-LHR sector, and it is definitely cancelled, then the LHR agents will be able to protect your flight and there won't be an issue there. If the gap between the flights is quick the computers may not have had time to cancel the flight anyway, but it's worth checking before you get to the gate for boarding (e.g. in the minutes before boarding starts).