Originally Posted by
christep
CX won't get any problems for taking someone to MAD who has the right to enter there. I fail to see why this was ever likely to be an issue - airlines only care about circumstances in which they might have to take someone back again at their expense.
Sorry to bring this up again, but I was actually looking through the IATA Ticketing Handbook on ticketing for inadmissible passengers to answer another question, when it occurred to me that, if the passenger did get as far as SSG and was refused entry, then CX would actually be liable to IB for most of the cost of a new outbound ticket.
The IATA rule is, where entry is refused, the final inbound carrier is responsible for ticketing the passenger to whatever place is directed by the authorities. If the passenger has no unflown flight coupons left on his inbound ticket, and refuses to pay for the outbound ticket, then all carriers who participated in the inbound carriage (from the previous stopover, up to the place where entry is refused) share the cost of that new ticket. That cost is shared on a pro-rate basis.
Since HKG-MAD is much longer than MAD-SSH, and there was a connection at MAD not a stopover, it seems to me that CX would be on the hook by IATA's rules even if IB dropped the ball by allowing the passenger on board at MAD.
Anyway, just an interesting technical point.
