I have flown exactly once in my life so I know nothing, which is why I am here. I need to fly from Detroit to Bangkok and I can save about $800 dollars by buying separate tickets from DTW to LAX and then LAX to BKK. There would be 12 hours between flights. I assume since I am buying them separately I would not get a refund if I didn't make it to LA in time. So my question is what are the chances my flight would be delayed more then say 10 hrs? It would be early Nov. so other than weather delays are flights usually pretty reliable? I see stories of people sitting on airplanes for no reason for 22 hrs, and flights getting cancelled and what not.