On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 10:23:58 +0000, Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk>
wrote:

>In message <bk19l3p1rj9fqb10askr2ql4i6p9ut2t3m@4ax.com>, at 23:45:26 on 
>Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Mike Roebuck <mike.roebuck@privacy.net> remarked:
>>>>>Currently, if I buy a through BA ticket from
>>>>>Manchester to <somewhere> via LHR on one ticket, if I miss my
>>>>>connection at LHR I'll get put up in a hotel if necessary and put on
>>>>>the next available flight.  If I do Manchester to LHR by train, I
>>>>>would be told to get stuffed.
>>>>
>>>>If BA/BMI bought part of the train, as Lufthansa do in Germany, you'd
>>>>use it with an air ticket, rather than a rail ticket, and air
>>>>conditions would apply.
>>>
>>>In the way that BA bought part of Eurostar? 10% and still have it,
>>>afaict.
>>
>>Not really. Lufthansa buy space on ICEs between Cologne-Bonn Airport
>>and Frankfurt Airport and sell the seats to their customers using
>>airline ticketing. The trains effectively substitute for flights.
>
>In what sense have BA "not really" bought 10% of Eurostar?
>
>Or did you mean "buy a block of seats", rather than "the actual train".

I thought that was clear from at least my second post.

You really can be an annoying pedant sometimes.