Unaware of separate ticketing baggage policy, I paid the price. Don’t like it!
Jan 23, 2019, 7:05 am
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Jan 23, 2019, 7:25 am
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Jan 23, 2019, 11:12 am
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I think this policy started about a year ago on AA? I remember getting caught trying to through-check from Cuzco-Lim-DFW, and having been able to do it the year before REP-HKG-DFW. In both cases, we had one revenue and one award ticket. I can kind of maybe understand it (but not like it) on a revenue ticket. It's basically married segment logic. But I don't really understand it on award tickets when there's no revenue to fight over.
Jan 23, 2019, 12:13 pm
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the APD would have been £26 pounds on a J flight and £13 in Y, and from what the OP wrote the decision to go to GVA was fairly last minute due to snow (the OP wanting to see it / go skiiing) there so yes the cost of the ticket change could have been high.
Unfortunately the OP hasn’t come back to say how long he had between the two separate flights in terms of both the schedule and the reality (he said the AA flight into LHR was late).
He DID admit the connection was tight, but countered that if AA would thrucheck, he would have been able to connect instead of missed the connection. AA rebooked him though. So there is really no ground or basis for any compensation. This is the rub and he would not come back to admit it.
We have seen too many "drive-by" posting when the poster wanted something and then realized it wouldn't happen, then the poster never has the courtesy to come back just to clarify / answer some questions. He is not the first who does that, nor the last.