Originally Posted by zznoname

Thanks. From it's inception, the planning was just stupid. We thought as long as we get there early (at the time, midnight seemed early for a 15.00 appointment) we could leave late in the day, suffer a bit with the connections, and save a couple hundred bucks. Really, really, dumb.

But if we miss our scheduled connection, the last flight DFW-FLL is another flight with two (2) connections with 14 hours travel time. How in the world can AA sell a DFW-FLL ticket with a 14 hour flight time?

Then, as mentioned above, there are two early morning DFW-FLL non-stops that get in before 15.00.

This risk is too great.
I'm thinking we have to eat the $400. and spend $600 more to be "safe".
Just throw money at the problem, because it seems clear, at least from past flights, we'd be walking into a messed up situation.

We're sort of used to international connections, that over the years, have been on time.