Originally Posted by
orbitmic
i suspect the op may be booking as multi leg as in my experience that always reverts to 2 hours by default and as you rightly say, t5-t5 should be 60 minutes.
that said, as NWIFlyer says, the mct is just that so if you fall below the correct one even by 1 minute, an itinerary won’t be allowable as a through ticket, just like if you can do x or y only once you turn 18, you won’t be able to when you are 17 and 364 days...
gotcha, thank you! I think it might just be the case then that when booking with Avios the system defaults to 2hrs MCT, versus when booking cash and being able to offer the same combination of flights with 1hr and 25min connection time.