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Aug 5, 2016 | 6:47 am

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omaralt

Join Date: Nov 2015

Posts: 799

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Originally Posted by c2u4ze2im

Hi omaralt - this CLT delay has affected me before, causing me to miss an intl connex at IAD - you may want to attempt getting on standby for the earlier CLT-IAD AA5502 16:00-16:56 or actually just paying to change your AA ticket to this earlier flight....

Another option would be to change your AA ticket for arrival into DCA around 17:00 on one of the hourly CLT-DCA flights, allowing enough time for baggage pickup/transit taxi to IAD/recheck-in, security at IAD (entire process could take up to 3-5 hours) to make your connection IAD-AUH leaving at 22:00!

Just some suggestions so you don't miss the EY flight to AUH.

wow, thanks! i'm actually coming from tampa, so i have the option of doing a direct TPA-DCA flight. but i picked this one to give me a 4 hr layover in charlotte as my brother lives there.. maybe i'll stick to the earlier one.. thanks

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