Originally Posted by
KARFA
I really am struggling to see why BA are doing this since a 2-4-1 is supposed to be for one booking which starts and ends in the UK (or JER).
Originally Posted by
Beaulieu
... I expect this is probably to do with the number of phone calls at approaching midnight UTC as the seats get released, to add as a return sector to a pre-existing outbound ex-LHR.
That would be one obvious reason for adding what is otherwise (in process terms) a clunky and unwieldy mechanism which is likely to go wrong at some stage (including getting gamed by those intent on gaming it).