Originally Posted by
LondonElite
Ignorance is no defence. Unless you specifically bought a fare which allowed a stopover in the middle city, you bought Zurich to Durban. You the airline gets you there is not for you to say. You arguing the opposite doesn’t make it so.
This is not true. A stopover is defined as
Stopover - a scheduled stop on
your journey at a point between the place of departure and the place of destination
If the flight coupons were issued with a specific connection in, say DEL instead of TLV, that specific connecting point is now part of your contract with BA. This makes sense as a passenger may not want to connect via certain airports or countries for a multitude of reasons.
If you buy a HEL-OSL-LHR-JFK-IAD-SFO ticket, BA is not entitled to change your routing just because their contract is to carry you from HEL to SFO. Purely because that's not what you contracted with them. You contracted that specific routing with those specific stopover points.