Silver Fox

They meant "all the lads and lasses".

Whether they were gannin' along the Scotswood Road is not clear.

Dave Noble

I don't see why there would be in sport. Why can people who like sport not just like the sport regardless of teams / countries

Oxon Flyer

Folks, please spare the moderators the "This has NOTHING to do with BA" post reports, and curb the off-topic excursions.

Thank you.

PUCCI GALORE

Clearly unlike others, I read your post and knew how you felt. I’ve had AA let me down completely with a connection that was on one PNR from LAX-DFW-CDG. The flight to Dallas was in a rolling and unexplained delay. I got home, hours late and with a sort of Lucky You Got Aboard At All attitude. I am so glad that BA stepped and seems to have given you exemplary service.

Thank you for sharing this. Do not be discouraged by any comments about which the least said the better. I thought that it was like a breath of fresh air.

msm2000uk

OP says something positive about BA - gets jumped on for explaining.

Different FTer says something negative about BA - others join in to compound the airline.

What a sad mindset some posters have.

Well done BA for resolving the OPs problem and for keeping another pair of customers happy. That's the aim of the game, and proof that despite the recent troubles BA has encountered, there are still positive stories.

M

salut0

Did you pay for the AA ticket in cash, AA miles or BA Avios? If the latter, maybe it makes more sense that BA felt a responsibility to be helpful.

AlanA

Its ok, Corbyn will nationalise it 😂😂😂😂

DeltaFlyingProf

To get back on the OP's situation. It is worth repeating that AA will take care of passengers who miss their connection on different tickets as long as one of the tickets is on AA and the other is either on AA or on oneworld. So the OP should not have even considered having to pay for walk up fare.
In this case, since he got the LAS-JFK miles/avios refunded, all the better for him that he didn't know this fact.

nmb255

That’s interesting to understand. I wasn’t aware of this, and I’m not certain the AA ground staff are aware either. They certainly didn’t mention it or enquire about what my connection was as I checked in with the flight already predicting a delay.

I mentioned my two bookings situation and that I had allowed a reasonable window. They just agreed that I should still have plenty of time and that hopefully there won’t be further delays. They didn’t ask if my future booking was with a oneworld carrier or not. Nor mention that AA would make sure I got home if the flight delayed further.

thanks for enlightening me [us] about this as the normal advice is not to make separate bookings. Although it isn’t a policy I would be looking to take advantage of, its good to know that I did have other options out there. I’ll be sticking to single ticket connections in the future.

nmb255

BA ticket was avios rewards.
AA ticket was cash purchase.

I’m BAEC gold so maybe that oiled the wheels.

lorcancoyle

Maybe BA is starting to honour their “flat tyre” rule more generously?

DeltaFlyingProf

Here is the thread where this is discussed. It is not easy to get it applied all the time though. But JonNYC who knows a thing or two about AA states that despite the wording change in Feb, it still applies.

mikem004

So is BA now honouring unprotected connections to a flight on a Oneworld carrier, even on separate tickets?

MiraculousM

Nevermind. read the whole thread. I might start booking AA more often now

JAXBA

Unlikely. This would have been an exception, and quite probably would have ended differently with a different passenger and/or BA agent.

If this had crossed my desk, I probably would have taken the AA ticket and combined it with the BA when issuing the LASLHR, but that's me.