Originally Posted by
findark
I would feel more comfortable with a 3-4 hour connection, unless you know there are same-day options to be protected on for the connection. The EWR flights are less likely to delay, but it's still a very real possibility. I would want to be in a place where a 2-hour delay would not make me sweat.
I wouldn't! It took me 7:45 hours to get from PDX to SBA via SFO. 3 hour late leaving PDX, followed by 2 cancelled flights to SBA and then the flight I actually did get on leaving 2 hours late. Overall I arrived at 10:00 as opposed to the schedule time of 2:13.... Just pathetic.