Originally Posted by
canadiancow
No one has touched on the fact that OP is not booked on YYZ-YVR, but YYZ-SYD.
This is, IMO, the only potential problem in this whole situation.
But as I have almost no experience with these types of flights, all I can do is hope the experts offer some insight.
With no experience in this case, I don't see why you can't SDC from YYZ-SYD to YYZ-YVR-SYD. There's no publicly available rule against it, though there's no guarantee an agent won't make one up
Originally Posted by
j2simpso
One thing I realized, which you should consider is that you're arriving into YYZ on a separate ticket. Should your inbound get delayed into YYZ and your miss your flight from YYZ->YVR (be it on the original AC33 direct service to SYD or the new flight you propose) you may very well be on the hook for making rebooking arrangements since they are separate itineraries (even though it's the same airline). It may therefore be prudent to add some buffer time to protect yourself against that incident (I typically add in 5-6 hours which some may find excessive but better safer than sorry)
Does anyone on the know what AC's policy is for missed flights/connections due to a delayed flight on a separate AC itinerary? Would they re-accomodate or would they simply treat it as a no-show?
Safe Travels,
James
For delays >2h where AC is at fault, they commit to rebooking you even on separate tickets. For delays where AC isn't at fault, they have no obligation to do so, but I believe they're generally pretty good about doing so anyways from what I've read here