Originally Posted by
fassy
I guess the question is not if a traveler should worry about MCTs or some SCT concept. As I understand it, the question is if the airline can deny free rebooking since a pax didn't walk fast enough through the airport or spend too much time browsing through shops.
To be honest, travelling every week I never ever thought about it but it is indeed an interesting question.
Over the years I've had occasions where a delayed flight didn't cause me to violate minimum connection time, and I could have run to the next gate, but due to whatever reason (a sprained ankle making it hard to run, needing to make a bathroom stop, no time to grab even packaged food between flights, etc...) I chose not to and I've never had any trouble still getting put onto a later flight if I called while walking through the terminal.