Reply To: Connecting two separate oneworld flights

[Lady London]

If your flights are QR or if even one of them is, booking on 2 separate tickets is a risky strategy

QR (which can be booked with a QR flight number as well as with codeshare flight numbers such as BA ones) is acquiring a bad rep due to frequent schedule changes worsening the trips people may have even paid more to choose good flight timings for. The number of hours they unilaterally rescheduled people’s booked flights later or earlier, can vary from a couple of hours to much much more according to reports over time. Either by reschedule or cancellation and refusal to accommodate on earlier flights or available flights of theirs being sold, that would connect more reliably or pleasntly. (Anecdotally tickets paid for by BA avios may be the passengers chosen for offload it seems too, as compsred to tickets paid for by some other types of payment).

You also have the issue that on a flight operated by a non-EU airline you would only have EU/UK261 rights for your departing flight from the UK /EU to the final destination *on that same ticket*.

So depending on how much time between booking and flight dates, personally whether BA would check my luggage through onto flights on other tickets (and the answer to that from BA is always No) on split tickets via, say, Doha, there are other risks too.