Originally Posted by
o mikros
So I was trying to book a ticket MKE-IAH-AUS for this fall and noticed that the 39 minute connection is no longer allowed. The previous minimum connection time through there was 30 minutes, at least as of a couple months ago. When did this change? Has anyone else noticed this?
(ETA) Even stranger: The flights show up as a legal routing connection on both the UA and CO timetables. Both segments are wide open. Why won't any booking engine let me leave MKE at 5:40 on 10/15 and land in AUS at 10:05?
I think 30 minutes is really pushing it at IAH if you have to change terminals. I've done it but I really do not like to be rushed like that. I avoid tight connections at IAH whenever possible.
Worse case scenario would be a connection from the farthest reaches of Term E to the south side of Term A (saw a Colgan Q400 depart from an A gate adjacent to the AA gates the other day) or vice versa. Might be difficult to accomplish in 30 minutes.....