Exactly. Your only saving grace is that it's the same carrier, so they might be nice to you even if the second flight is NONREF NONCHG.JohnK said:I have comprehensive travel insurance [...] It is frightening that I could miss a 4 hour connection in LHR and then be held responsible for the missed connection.
There is a wide enough range of insurance policy pricing out there that it is distinctly odd that standard Australian policies seem to, perhaps universally, fail to cover this. NM, for all the discussion of liabilities and cost, 'managing risks' personally is not something that most insured consumers understand. The potential increase in premiums notwithstanding, most insurers and retailers promote travel insurance as cover for the typical important eventualities -- it could quite reasonably be argued that the missed connection issue is a pretty major aspect of travel, perhaps more important than spending money for delays, high baggage value, etc etc.