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Aer Lingus and connecting flights

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  • 15-01-2019 8:33pm
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    adam88
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    Trying to book a flight from Kerry to Birmingham via Dublin, it saved me a 4 hr drive up and m saved me avoiding the m50 and the roadworks on the m7 coming home. Plus when you factor in tolls and what not it’s nearly as cheap to fly from dub.

    Anyhow the website doesn’t allow booking a connecting flight like that so I rang the helpline and got through to some man in Manila who also handles the sky helpdesk lol he busted wasn’t bothered about it high up or low down. If I go ahead and book these flights separate I.e. kerry to dub and dub to Birmingham will I still be covered if one leg is delayed and I’m stuck


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    L1011
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    No, you won't have any protections at all on separate PNRs


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    Shamrockj
    Registered Users Posts: 344 ✭✭Shamrockj


    adam88 wrote: »
    Trying to book a flight from Kerry to Birmingham via Dublin, it saved me a 4 hr drive up and m saved me avoiding the m50 and the roadworks on the m7 coming home. Plus when you factor in tolls and what not it’s nearly as cheap to fly from dub.

    Anyhow the website doesn’t allow booking a connecting flight like that so I rang the helpline and got through to some man in Manila who also handles the sky helpdesk lol he busted wasn’t bothered about it high up or low down. If I go ahead and book these flights separate I.e. kerry to dub and dub to Birmingham will I still be covered if one leg is delayed and I’m stuck

    If you search Aer Lingus multi city and it will put kir-dub-bhx under one booking as far as I know. I did it before on dub-man-ork with no problems.


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    adam88
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    Shamrockj wrote: »
    If you search Aer Lingus multi city and it will put kir-dub-bhx under one booking as far as I know. I did it before on dub-man-ork with no problems.

    Yes. Just checked. It will allow you book kir-dub-Birmingham but won’t allow the return but I suppose your covered that way if your flight is delayed. That fella on the phone should have told me that. He said I had to book it separately but I knew that couldn’t be right.

    Do you reckon if I got through to someone in Dublin that they could rectify it


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    steve-o
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    adam88 wrote: »
    Yes. Just checked. It will allow you book kir-dub-Birmingham but won’t allow the return
    The multi trip doesn't allow you to book a "return" journey. So just book it as 2 multi trips.


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    Shamrockj
    Registered Users Posts: 344 ✭✭Shamrockj


    adam88 wrote: »
    Yes. Just checked. It will allow you book kir-dub-Birmingham but won’t allow the return but I suppose your covered that way if your flight is delayed. That fella on the phone should have told me that. He said I had to book it separately but I knew that couldn’t be right.

    Do you reckon if I got through to someone in Dublin that they could rectify it

    You would have to make 2 bookings. Kir-dub-bhx and bhx-dub-kir. You could always contact them on Twitter maybe.


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