... situations like this, are enough to make people think [at least] twice about travelling ANYWHERE by plane ... ... it's simply not worth all the nerve~wracking hastle.

However, for those with families in far distant nations (and that includes MOST of us) such a "philosophy" is rarely an option.

OK ... perhaps I'm living in cloud land in suggesting it OUGHT
to be incumbent upon s ... to offer alternative (free of surcharge) arrangements for the onward transmission of would-be passengers inconvenienced by missed flight connections.