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Am looking to fly from MNL to HKG on CX, landing at 15.05 in order to pick up our BA flight HKG to LHR which leaves around 23.30. As the BA flight is on BA 2for1 we obviously cont connect these flights together. Therefore is the amount of time we are leaving (8.5 hrs ish) sufficient in case of any delays, as far as travel insurance is concerned in case we have a delay and we need to rebook the HKG-LHR flight?
There is also another flight MNL to HKG landing 20.20 which we could get moved to if there is an issue with our original flight so we have a couple of plan B’s if needed but I just wonder if travel insurance would consider 8.5 hrs connection time enough, if there were any problems…
currently using HSBC Premier Travel Insurance who I will ring on Monday to ask the same question but just looking for any info in the meantime
thanks
All travel insurance policies will have different terms – phoning to ask is the way to go if you can’t find it explicitly covered or not in the policy document.
8 hours should be plenty if everything goes OK, but it’s clearly got a level of risk there. Worth checking if CX will through check your bags across to the BA flight – can’t remember if they do or not. It would remove the need to collect and re-check them in HKG.
All travel insurance policies will have different terms – phoning to ask is the way to go if you can’t find it explicitly covered or not in the policy document.
8 hours should be plenty if everything goes OK, but it’s clearly got a level of risk there. Worth checking if CX will through check your bags across to the BA flight – can’t remember if they do or not. It would remove the need to collect and re-check them in HKG.
Thanks Matt, very helpful re the checking bags through. Didn’t realise I would be able to do this, found the below so looks like it’s all ok. In this case will probably now go for the early morning flight from MNL landing at 10.20 instead to give more room any potential issues and also pop into the city for a few hours minus the luggage
thanks
We did exactly this trip yesterday. I can confirm that we were able to check our bags through from manilla to hkg by the cathay check in staff.
We took the lunchtime flight arriving at around 3pm ish. we stayed air side on arriving in hkg and had about 6 hours in the lounge so plenty of time!We did exactly this trip yesterday. I can confirm that we were able to check our bags through from manilla to hkg by the cathay check in staff.
We took the lunchtime flight arriving at around 3pm ish. we stayed air side on arriving in hkg and had about 6 hours in the lounge so plenty of time!I assume you mean check your bags through from MNL-HKG-LHR? ok that’s great to know. Flew from MNL to HKG couple of weeks ago for 2 nights in HKG before coming home so know the cathay staff were pretty helpful but good to have first hand experience of this. thanks
Yep.All the way through from mnl to lhr
CX mnl-hkg
BA hkg-lhrTo be clear just because CX will interline your bags to your BA flight it still means you have two separate bookings and zero protections if your CX flight is late and you miss the BA one.
To be clear just because CX will interline your bags to your BA flight it still means you have two separate bookings and zero protections if your CX flight is late and you miss the BA one.
yes that’s understood, and is what the travel insurance is for, so I still need to contact the insurance co tomorrow to find out if 8.5 hrs connection time is deemed sufficient as far as they are concerned on non linked tickets
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