Originally Posted by
G-BOAC
Personally, I wouldn't risk it. Book the next BD flight and instead spend some time in the lounge on the Belgian Beer (even better if you're BA Gold too and can Open Doors your way in there
) and relax
I suspect the problem would be that the next flight would be too late to connect to the UA flights the OP wants to take.
Originally Posted by
kt74
MPMs also don't seem to apply - so you could, say, have dinner with friends in Chicago (my plan!) en route to your final destination of NYC, and only pay the lower NYC fare.
Do check it, though, as there might not be any MPM but there might nevertheless be routing rules. Last time I looked at flying with UA ex BRU or CDG (admittedly quite a while back), it would only allow routing via IAD for NYC area destinations on the cheapest fares, and not via ORD. Routing via ORD would have raised the price to a Q or M fare then rather than W.