Originally Posted by
Goldorak
But, I always wonder why some people wants to know that information. If you have purchased a ticket or if you intend to and see a routing proposed, then the connection is of course legal. Airlines and OTA do not sell illegal connections.
I have the feeling you may travel on separate tickets, and so the concept of MCT is not applicable to this situation.
Even if MCT is not technically applicable to a self-made connection, it can nonetheless be useful information: it tells you whether what the airline thinks is usually feasible in normal circumstances.
If there is an MCT of 20 mins, you know that the connection is likely to be a straightforward one so that planning on, say, 45 or 60 mins between flight has a reasonable likelihood to result in a satisfactory connection as long as the first flight is not substantially delayed. OTOH, if the MCT is 120 mins, then you would plan for a much longer delay between flights when planning a self-made connection.