Originally Posted by
ChinaShrek
Not to start a fight, but the consumer should also know that buying tickets with shorts connections run the risk of huffing and puffing to the new gate.
If an airline is selling it as a usable connection, it shouldn't be left to the customer to make up for the airline's and airport's failure to keep it as a usable connection.
Originally Posted by
nollbit
I disagree. "short" depends entirely on the airport and customers can't be expected to know that a 30 min at a certain smaller airport where remote stands are unlikely (ARN perhaps) is perfectly doable, whereas such a connection at FRA is unlikely to work.
^. And the amplification of an already bleak situation comes when you're parked at a remote stand and you receive the added bonus of the stairs and buses arriving late at the parked aircraft.