Originally Posted by
Often1
But, you should understand that MCT represents a carrier's willingness to accept the risk of a misconnect and, in this instance, the carrier will not accept the risk.
Originally Posted by
mgiarc
Thanks very much. Not sure I entirely understand the data, but I assume you are reading it correctly, as it tallies with what AA are saying. Weird, as it is non-Schengen to non-Schengen in the same terminal, so one would have thought the shortest of applicable MCTs, but good to have the official information.
It is sometimes difficult to avoid the impression that some MCTs are not set on the basis of pure risk, but because the airline is actively trying to discourage the connection in question. This could possibly be the case here.
If it helps to understand the lines of data, the way I understand it is this. The first line means that for a connection from any flight on any airline ("**") to BA flights 1500-1640 which involves a change from T1 to T2A, the MCT is 2:00.
The next two lines mean that same applies to any connection from any flight on any airline to BA flights 1500-1640 which involves a change from T2G to T2A or T3 to T2A.
Any other connection from any flight on any airline to BA flights 1500-1640 has an MCT of 1:30. You know it's "any other" because of the rule about reading from the top downwards until you stop at the first applicable line.
The significance of flights 1500-1640 is, I think (off the top of my head) that these are actually AA-operated flights and these are the BA flight numbers that may be carried by the AA flights as codeshare flight numbers. Hence in practice these are really dealing with **-AA MCTs. If you repeat the search for a connection to AA rather than BA, you may well see the same numbers.
The next two lines have "SUP", which means suppressed. The destination flight numbers here look like BA CityFlyer flight numbers, and BA CityFlyer does not operate to CDG. This may be why they're suppressed.
And then the following line is the one that applies to you: any other connection from any flight on any airline to any other BA flight.
Code:
**-BA II 2.00 ALL - FLT 1500 - 1640 TRM 1 - 2A
**-BA II 2.00 ALL - FLT 1500 - 1640 TRM 2G - 2A
**-BA II 2.00 ALL - FLT 1500 - 1640 TRM 3 - 2A
**-BA II 1.30 ALL - FLT 1500 - 1640
**-BA II SUP ALL - FLT 8040 - 8199
**-BA II SUP ALL - FLT 8830 - 8849
**-BA II 3.00
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