Hi,
It's not the extra money I'm bothered about, but more the issue that one of us had booked their own connecting flights, and the other had booked them through JY, and the outcome for both of us was the same, i.e. we both had to fork out for new flight tickets. My point being JY should have arranged for new flight tickets when the connecting flights were booked with JY.
I'm more concerned about this happening to someone who isn't used to travelling, and/or does not have or carry any credit card or extra cash. What would have happened then?
JY normally charge 'from' £169 for connecting flights between Newcastle and Heathrow return, whereas I can get them for about £109, and I wouldn't mind paying the extra £60 each time if I knew I was fully covered. But in this case I wouldn't have been anyway.
Since I book my own connecting flights I can't remember, but surely if JY fully covered all flights, then the ATOL certificate issued by them would state, for example, covers flights between Newcastle and Croatia, via Heathrow, or the equivalent? Otherwise JY are only responsible for getting you to the UK (say Heathrow or Gatwick) if anything happened, as far as I'm aware? I just think more clarification is needed around this whole issue really.
Regards
Caroline