What is BA policy with inflexible tickets if you miss a BA flight on a separate ticket because the incoming flight on another carrier was late? I assumed that BA would transfer you to the next available flight, but in a discussion on the AA Board (mainly about AA policy which I think is more flexible):
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superscot
Our AA DEN-ORD-LHR flights were seriously delayed because of weather. AA rebooked us on our connecting LHR-EDI flights (which were on separate tickets) and issued us with BPs and checked our bags all the way through to EDI.
When we came to board the EDI flight at LHR we were denied boarding by the BA GAs. We were given the choice of buying new tickets or having our bags unloaded. We tried to tough it out, reckoning that common sense would prevail and that they wouldn't delay the flight just to get our bags off. Wrong! Bags came off and we had to buy new tickets.
When I missed a flight on a cheap BA ticket to Paris because of a horrendous security line in T4 early one morning, BA were quite happy to transfer me to the next flight (said it happened all the time). But maybe they are stricter on misconnects?