Originally Posted by
Firemansam
You will have exactly zero claim from vietjet if you miss your flight as they are separate tickets.
However, looking at flightradar for that flight for the last 3 months it is regularly 20 mins or so late, but only as late as 95 mins past scheduled arrival time, which says you should be quite safe to buy that flight.
Happen to see a review about a Vietjet flight from Hanoi to Seoul departing
"almost 6 hours late" and the passengers having to stay on board all that time! this is how come I was concerned. I figured it may be a blip but there’s always that slight chance it could happen. Mind you, if it does happen, this is something you wouldn't wish upon your worst enemy (being cramped in an LCC for nearly 6 hours!).
Saying that, I took it upon myself to check the reviewers facts on flightaware (I just have a basic account for flightradar24 so only 7 days of historical data viewable – flightware provides wider date range). Here are my findings.
Flights from HAN to ICN only. No flights to GMP. Two vietjet flights to ICN. they are VJC 960 and VJC 962.
VJC 960 leaving HAN at 01:45 arriving ICN 07:55
VJC 962 leaving HAN at 23:15 arriving ICN 05:25
The reviewer said he'd flown in December 2017.
Checking the December
departure times for VJC 960 I can see the latest departure time of
03:00 occurring on 21 Dec 17.
for
VJC962 it's
01:37 occurring on 24 Dec 2017.
neither of those departure times are nowhere near 6 hours.
Has are reviewer lost track of time?, spinning us a yarn?, or is there some other explanation?
Even if the flight left
5 hours late, we should be seeing a departure time around
06:45 for VJC 960 and
04:15 for VJC 962.