Originally Posted by
LondonElite
I think you may be missing the simple point I was making. As you do not have a connection, you have no protection. Even with a seven hour gap between two separate tickets at the world's most efficient airport, you will face buying a new ticket if your first flight is simply cancelled. Whether that flight is cheap or expensive is another matter, as is your personal tolerance for risk.
Sorry, I’m sure if we were talking this would have taken two seconds vs a few messages. I know well the idea of being on a single ticket vs two tickets with regards to protections, should have stated that up front. As you say it’s all about risk tolerance. I had gone back and looked at on time stats for the Oman flight, and booked the backup ticket from Oman knowing I could hop on it if the MCT-ISB flight was delayed. This question should have been stated more clearly as simply wanting to hear from someone who had transited Islamabad to gather another data point.