Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / September 2007

I had previously asked in this forum about a very tight connection on a

IAH-CDG-NCL (Air France) flight which has a scant 1 hour connection in Paris
for the ongoing flight to Newcastle.

What would happen in this scenario:

I miss the connection.

They (for some bizarre reason cannot get me on the next(evening) flight to
Newcastle) and tell me "we'll put you on the first flight tomorrow".
"Tomorrow"  is no good for me and if that happened I would want to try to
find an Easy Jet alternative [that I pay for of course], or, worst case,
even take the train to the UK.

However, this is the question: if I "go my own way" on the CDG-NCL leg does
that completely invalidate my ticket for the return flight NCL-CDG-IAH?
Or is it a valid last resort and will not affect the ticket thereby.

I will have one checked bag (one carry-on) so that might scupper things as
well. Jeez!

Another shade on this question is "do they have to get me there that day by
some means unless there's a truly exotic set of circumstances?

Again, after many years in the US the finer points of how the Europeans
handle these issues are vague to me.

So thank you in advance.

Mike