London Stop-Over

jpsartre

Murphy_The_Cat wrote: »

OP, try for an earlier BA flight from EDI to LHR, the general PITAness simply isn't worth it.

Sounds like the OP already purchased the ticket in which case BA isn't going to change it without charging a change fee. If the ticket hasn't been bought yet I agree that it would be prudent to leave a bit more time between flights.

Murphy_The_Cat

jpsartre wrote: »

Sounds like the OP already purchased the ticket in which case BA isn't going to change it without charging a change fee. If the ticket hasn't been bought yet I agree that it would be prudent to leave a bit more time between flights.

possibly they'll charge a fee, but until the OP contacts BA and asks them he won't know for sure.

Something along the lines of "I'm flying to NYC on ticket #XXX123 for my honeymoon and I've only got a connection time of 1 hour in LHR. My wife to be is really worried about missing the connection and I'm a bit nervous as well, with Edinburgh being affected by dodgy weather conditions from time to time. I'm not looking for any sort of freebie, but could you possibly either a) get me to London on an earlier flight, or b) change me to a later flight so that I'm sure to start married life in a positive way in NYC, rather than having the worry of not making the connection in LHR.
I realise that its a bit of an unusual request, but we booked via BA because we know that you're a proper airline that uses common sense in situations like this"

You never know, they may swap you to the EDI-NYC direct flight that AA operate.(if so, it doesn't have PE, but MCE would give you extra legroom)

jpsartre

Murphy_The_Cat wrote: »

possibly they'll charge a fee

No, they will definitely charge a fee. The OP can hope for a schedule change, then they should be able to request a change free-of-charge.

gabriel1980

To clear things up - I haven't purchased any tickets. I'm planning to book it through Expedia and unfortunately I can't find a way to choose a flight to London and then choose a second flight to NYC, it just sets up the two flights as those likely to connect. If I could choose individual flights, I would allow us more time in Heathrow.

Murphy_The_Cat

gabriel1980 wrote: »

To clear things up - I haven't purchased any tickets. I'm planning to book it through Expedia and unfortunately I can't find a way to choose a flight to London and then choose a second flight to NYC, it just sets up the two flights as those likely to connect. If I could choose individual flights, I would allow us more time in Heathrow.

that makes sense.

have a look at google flights as well. Then click on the link at the end to take you directly through to the airline When I had a mooch, it gave several routing options and plenty of "realistic" connection times, rather than the buttock clenching 1 hour that Expedia were offering.
Unless you have an outstanding reason to book on 2 seperate tickets, having a through ticket is a hassle free, belt and braces, "we'll get covered if it all goes wrong" option.

Murph

p.s if you were able to consider flying with Norwegian in economy, and landing in Newburgh, New York State directly, the saving in time AND money could be astounding - depending on your dates. I found £395 in June return (including reserved seat, luggage and food) direct from Edinburgh.

PeacefulWaters

gabriel1980 wrote: »

To clear things up - I haven't purchased any tickets. I'm planning to book it through Expedia and unfortunately I can't find a way to choose a flight to London and then choose a second flight to NYC, it just sets up the two flights as those likely to connect. If I could choose individual flights, I would allow us more time in Heathrow.

British airways web site?

Perhaps price up including a hotel.

jpsartre

gabriel1980 wrote: »

I'm planning to book it through Expedia

Why? Unless there's a price difference just book from BA direct. You'll get a list of all connections and you can pick a suitable connection time. Expedia's a reputable site but even then there are downsides to going through a 3rd party.

becominganobsessivesaver

On the way down assuming connecting to BA then the 1hr connection is dead easy. Security cleared in Edinburgh, you'll probably just need to head over to the shuttle to the b or c gates (you can check your departure gate on google flights when you land). Try and allow more time on the way back as it can take longer to clear immigration for domestic connections (maybe this was just our bad luck though arriving back after the Hong Kong arrival the day the universities started back.)

John259

If it's a single booking, so the two flights are regarded as parts of the same journey, then the airline must sort you out if you miss a connection due to a delayed flight. Unpleasant, but not usually horrendous.

If it's two separate bookings then the airline has no responsibility for sorting you out. You lose the second flight and have to pay for a replacement. Very nasty indeed.

Pollycat

jpsartre wrote: »

Why? Unless there's a price difference just book from BA direct. You'll get a list of all connections and you can pick a suitable connection time. Expedia's a reputable site but even then there are downsides to going through a 3rd party.

Lots of horror stories on the Air Travel board of Tripadvisor about using 3rd party websites - eDreams and Opodo seem to be among the worst ones but Expedia seem OK.

It doesn't sound like a simple process to book the itinerary that the OP wants with Expedia and for that reason, I'd be very wary of exactly what they were booking for me for the reason below.

John259 wrote: »

If it's a single booking, so the two flights are regarded as parts of the same journey, then the airline must sort you out if you miss a connection due to a delayed flight. Unpleasant, but not usually horrendous.

If it's two separate bookings then the airline has no responsibility for sorting you out. You lose the second flight and have to pay for a replacement. Very nasty indeed.

^^^^ Good advice.

If you do book with Expedia, make sure you understand exactly what they have booked for you.