Originally Posted by
Steve_ZA
Which? is campaigning against airlines that cancel return portions of the ticket when the outbound was skipped due to circumstances outside the passenger's control:
https://www.which.co.uk/news/2018/12...-show-clauses/, however BA's Ts & Cs already allow for protection on these grounds as quoted in the OP.
They may well allow protection, but it isn’t granted uniformly and requires action before the first flight, which when we’re talking about unforeseen consequences, isn’t always possible.