Originally Posted by
benjybl
I have an upcoming trip, CDG-ZRH-LAX-YVR, booked as a C award through Aeroplan.
Thing is, the ZRH-LAX flight (on LX) gets in at 4:45pm and the last LAX-YVR flight for the day (also, incidentally, with XF seats available) is 5:40pm, leaving me with a connection time of 0:55. Now, I'm not too worried about this, as I'm going int'l to int'l and I don't think it'd be that hard to make the flight. Aeroplan's computers thought differently, and so I had to book LAX-YVR the next morning at 9:28am on UX, thus leaving me to spend the night at the airport Westin.
If I end up in LAX after my LX flight, would there be any possibility of being puton standby for the 5:40pm flight, assuming I do indeed have enough time? Or is it only "same-day" (even though it's an int'l connection as part of one itinerary) standby that's available to me?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Going through LAX that would be a very hard connection to make. Your LX flight will likely arrive in the international terminal, and you would need to clear US customs and immigration before heading to your AC flight in another terminal. In addition, you will have to clear security again to get to your AC flight, and that terminal has one of the slowest security lines in LAX in my experience. Plus there is no priority lane that I'm aware of.
I would stick with your existing flights and save yourself a misconnect.