Reply To: 241 advice – BA not possible to final destination, vouchers on separate cards

[Alex G]

1958 wrote:

Check the terms of your travel insurance before booking (in case of a missed connecting flight on separate tickets).

Absolutely. I’m slightly uncomfortable as I have a 3 hour connection at Haneda in May between two separately ticketed flights. My travel insurance will cover us for £1k each if we miss the flight, so we should get home, although it would probably be in economy which would be grim for 15 hours. If any further reward availability opens up in Business then I will book a spare redemption flight for a couple of days after our planned flight.

Only slightly worried as our JAL domestic flight has an excellent record for punctuality, but things can go wrong.

I once took a domestic flight from Orlando to La Guardia that took 8 hours with a refuelling stop in Richmond VA due to bad weather. Was very glad that I was in (Domestic) First. (And that was in September. All NY area airports closed due to a storm soon after we took off. Most of the trip was spent flying around in circles.)