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Aug 12, 2014 | 9:37 pm

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Originally Posted by sltlyamusd

I was planning a trip from JNU-BOS and looked at taking the 6 am flight out, which must have been the one they were on. The conx time in SEA is 40 min. I decided it was too risky. Even if you land 10 minutes late, it can be difficult to make a 40 minute connection if you have change terminals. I'm surprised 40 min is still a legal AS-AS conx at SEA.

And I was upset when AS increased the minconnect in SEA for AS AS

It truncated some transcon connection options allowing one to get to ANC earlier.

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