Originally Posted by rfrost

When I'm going someplace in Europe other than London, I frequently purchase a separate BMI roundtrip and connect to/from UA at LHR. (It's a lot less stressful than hoping a UAX flight to IAD arrives anywhere within an hour of schedule!) Since I don't have a lot of faith in interline transfers in general, and nowadays tend to travel only with a Travelpro, on the return I usually only check it to LHR, then pick it up and carry it onboard the UA flight home. So this won't affect me very much, BUT I'd still want to have the option--like suppose when you check in for the BMI flight you learn it's delayed an hour. This, along with all the other changes BMI is making, will probably send me on alternate carriers, and particularly BA (much as I hate T4!)