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Old Jul 5, 2009 | 6:06 pm
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Originally Posted by StayingHomeIsBetter
...My personal MCT in ATL is 60 minutes... and I don't start feeling reasonably comfortable until the connect time gets up to about 90 minutes.
I tend to agree with the 60 minutes for doemstic but once I am at that, I am comfortable unless it is a connection to or from international. In that case, I will leave 1.5 coming back since my final home destinations of NYC or So Fla have lots of backup flights. However, when I'm connecting to a one-a-day international flight, I will not feel really good leaving less than 2.5 hours at ATL, especially in the summer.

Originally Posted by StayingHomeIsBetter
My recent solution to resolving connection times in ATL has been to connect through DTW....
I have always used CVG and SLC as much as possible and feel fairly lucky that the CVG service to NYC and So Fla has not been completely decimated. DTW is OK when coming out of the Northeast but it adds lots of time coming out or returning to Florida.
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