Particularly on routes with very few frequencies per day on any airline let alone the operating airline. The PPT-AKL route generally has one flight per day alternating dates with Air Tahiti Nui and is an almost 6 hour flight. When buffering flights on separate tickets one needs to consider frequency and airline operations. If flying between LGA & BOS there are frequent flights with multiple different airlines but on a different route you may only see 1-3 flights per day on one or two airlines so you could be stuck or end up having to purchase an expensive ticket. I have an PDX-SFO & an SFO-TPE flight coming up on different award tickets with 10 hours between flights and 2 additional flights on AS and 3 other flights on 2 other airlines that I could take in the event of irrops. If I didn't have those conditions I wouldn't schedule the flights like that.
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Often1
Check your travel insurance. It is very unlikely to cover transfers between tickets rather than connections, but it is worth checking. Your travel insurance may also have a simple payout for the 15-hour delay. That is not likely to be anywhere near $5,000, but better than nothing.
As an aside, how far before the CA departure did you call to let CA know that you would not make it? While not useful now, some tickets do allow for changes prior to departure. It sounds as though your tickets had no value once the flight had departed.
Don't need to rub it in, but this is important for all those people who post asking how much time they ought to leave when transferring between two tickets. While the greater the time, the better, the risks can be significant and thus 13 hours was not enough.