Originally Posted by
totti
Correct. I was not worried but thought it would be less stress to fly via a London or direct. Anyways, I made to connection. Fun fact, one of the pilots for YYC to FRA was on my YVR flight.
still find it surprising that they would not act when they can and instead have passengers run. They closed the door right after the pilot and I got on board and we both ran.
Actually, what you've mentioned there is one of the reasons why AC may sometimes not re-book. They know you weren't going to miss the connection because you were flying with one of the pilots. (YYC is not a pilot base for the widebodies, so it's not uncommon for them to deadhead in, especially from YVR.
As I said, I've found them to generally be reasonable when it comes to re-booking in IRROPs, but it doesn't mean that any IRROPs are carte blanche to just get whatever you want.