Actually, I really feel like avoiding this airline 100% going forward. I suspect other state carriers, like Aeroflot, behave like this (I've heard that if the incoming flight is late and the pax misses the connection, then he has to pay to be rebooked, effectively a new ticket). I still stand by what I feel about all this, even though it goes against the fundamental spirit here of points collecting and enjoying travel: I would like to see all these abysmal airlines wiped out by this situation, so we could recommence completely anew with the whole air travel concept and drastically rethink how it should evolve from here, in a 21st century context and not a 1950s context.