Originally Posted by
DominicB
C-W-S, you are an ever-amazing mine of information. For US-based ground staff, is there a code for NCL by rail I might suggest to them? I can then leap off at York!
Apparently Newcastle railway station is NCL, same as the airport is, but I can't see any BA-coded "flights" from QQK (Kings Cross IATA code) to NCL in Expertflyer (i.e. in the GDS) - but there is an LNER train every hour which carries an "AccessRail" code, so maybe that is accessible to them via that route?
My personal experience of this situation is that I have successfully made the case with the originating station for a short-check of a bag where a miss-connect will almost invariably result in a night-stop or other EU261 eligible delay. Sometimes the agent has just done it. The other times the agent has sought guidance from a more senior colleague, or called someone up (I'm assuming the FMU). But I've yet to be turned down in this circumstance.
Good luck getting things sorted.