Originally Posted by
Frequentflyer99
But I think your point about PYOB raises another issue and perhaps that is the one that I am really grappling with ! Would I have to disembark and re-embark if I have two separate BPs (because in some places there is no transit facility and immigration can be a REALLY slow process) ??? I suppose that ultimately that depends how the ground staff at the stopover point deal with things.
Just have a word with the crew and tell them you're continuing on but have a separate BP. They then have a word with the groundstaff who will onload you for the next leg as if you'd boarded and give you your BP back.
Aside from the saddos like us FTers doing it for TPs, I can quite easily see legit reasons for it happening - i.e. you book a trip to the region and then after the fact there's a meeting you're called to in the 'add on' destination...far easier just to get a second ticket than change the original one I'd say.