Originally Posted by
portland67
I need some advice here. My wife and I are coming on the OZ flight from ICN landing at 12:35 and we need to book our connecting flight to PDX. We're going to be in Asia for almost 2 weeks so we're definitely going to have checked baggage. Since we'll have 2 separate PNR's, would you book the 3 or 4 PM AS shuttle down to PDX?
You *should* be safe with a 2 hour and 25 minute connection, though IIRC some heavies from Europe arrive at that time.
One other thing, if soon, the "partial gov't shutdown" is currently having an effect as TSA employees are calling in sick causing longer delays and solution does not appear to be imminent.
Of course as long as seats are available on the next flight they *should* put you on the next flight, but there's never a guarantee. I'm more familiar with UA, to the best of my knowledge they still apply the "flat tire" rule.