Originally Posted by
finny52
I'm looking at connecting EWR-DTW-PEK on Sunday 1/17. My choices are layovers of 38m or 4h 14m. The 38m layover departs EWR at 9:15am whereas the 4+ hr layover takes off at 5:30am!
On-time of the 9:15am is 80% and has mainline equipment.
What would you do?
Think of it this way, getting up at 3am eastern to make your 5:30 sounds super early, but really, for your destination of China, its sleeping in till 3pm.
At least there won't be any traffic...