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Yes – I don’t think the website can see connecting routes, however it is very good for being able to see months’ worth (and numbers of) award seats on individual sectors instead of having to trawl through IB/BA’s booking system for individual dates.
You have to create an account but there’s no charge for this at the moment.
Shamelessly picking your brains here, @JDB, but have you or your family ever managed to book connecting flights online on consecutive days on IB, e.g. VLC-MAD one day and MAD-MEX the next? IB doesn’t seem to have a “stopover” facility akin to BA’s, and some of their connection times are too tight for my nerves!
Not on a divorced segments basis as you are wanting! There should be nothing to stop you booking such a routing (including with a voucher) but you would need the individual availability on both sectors. I think the MCT for IB to IB T4-T4S is only 55 minutes which works but is a bit of a rush. My wife insists on the shortest connection times possible!
You will have to explain divorced segments! If I try and book, e.g. MIA-MAD-MAN (so going in the other direction), on the IB website, I only get routing via LHR on AA and BA, presumably because the next available IB MAD-MAN will be the next day (in the winter schedule, anyway).
If I try to book VLC-MAD-MEX, it will only show same-day connections, there’s no option to fly to MAD the evening before, stay overnight then take the morning departure to MIA. It’s very simple to do this kind of routing with BA due to the “stopover” option when booking award flights (so kudos to BA, in this instance!)I’m not sure there is such a thing as ‘divorced’ segments, but when booking a connection on Iberia, you often get additional availability which is tied to the specific flights offered, i.e. the ‘married’ segments, so ‘divorced’ or separate segments is just the normal position. You would need to call to break your journey (which is still a connection if within 24 hrs) but it should still be a permitted routing. If one tries to force that sort of option on ExpertFlyer it only offers the train YJV-MAD.
Food for thought, many thanks.
You will have to explain divorced segments! If I try and book, e.g. MIA-MAD-MAN (so going in the other direction), on the IB website, I only get routing via LHR on AA and BA, presumably because the next available IB MAD-MAN will be the next day (in the winter schedule, anyway).
If I try to book VLC-MAD-MEX, it will only show same-day connections, there’s no option to fly to MAD the evening before, stay overnight then take the morning departure to MIA. It’s very simple to do this kind of routing with BA due to the “stopover” option when booking award flights (so kudos to BA, in this instance!)Is it possible to use the BA stopover option but including an IB flight? I’ve never tried. I’d have to do something like that if I can’t find an easy way to get my LHR-KEF leg changed to LHR-MAD. Hopefully the the 23:55 flight MAD-MEX will be available and I can get the A350 flight (18:45) from LHR-MAD and make the connection. That way I won’t need to jump through another hoop to get this holiday sorted
@BA-Baracus – in theory, it should be possible but there can be nothing definitive other than speaking to BA and seeing what they will agree. These more exotic routings fall into something of a twilight zone where the rules, such as they are, get interpreted differently by different agents and the willingness to make substantial changes without cancelling the original part is also variable.
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