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Originally Posted by Bushdoctor
Does anyone have any experience with missing a connecting flight? I was just looking through the different cheap flights from US to LOS, and there was one that stops in the Philippines for a few hours. A flight from here directly to Philippines costs way more money. I'm wondering what would happen if I 'missed' my flight? Could I just take one the next day or would I be screwed?
I missed one in Vegas once when I couldn't wake up from my coma in time, and they just let me go on the next flight no problem, but then the US isn't the Philippines.
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I have miss many connections. If you are having to deal with a "budget Airline" there is a high chance you could be screwed. In fact even with proper airlines they might still try to dump on you. You have to check is it a legal connection time, different airlines seem to have different policies about this.
If you are going with the same carrier all the way you should be looked after if this happens. It depends why you miss your connection, if it is because you minced about at the terminal they could say its your fault. But if your incoming flight is late then it is down to the carrier that brought you. That includes them paying for a hotel, and food if the next flight is the next day. Even if the inbound flight is 1 minute late this kicks in. Flight time is "chocs to chocs" but I always work on when they open the door and you can get off the plane, in this situation I as the purser or other crew what the time is when I get off, and if its late I will say oh so we are "X " minutes late then? and clock the name of who I spoke to, cause later the ground crew will swear the incoming flight was not late.
You will find that mostly you can make the connection if your incoming flight is a bit late, but your luggage might not. Chance of this happening double if you are changing carrier.
Last time I missed my connection with TG in Athens as my incoming flight was cancelled. Carrier was air agean. they tried to just give my money back for my ticket, next flightwas in 2 days time. I refused and made them re route me with a different carrier lufthansa, but had had to insist on speaking with the airline director at the airport. Once I got to him it was easy. Ticket was W class but I paid for an S class. W class only gives you 1/2 the air miles flown. It took 2 months to get given my missing miles