Originally Posted by
racandee
the alternative would be to cancel their tix (they are fully refundable) and do an Expedia multi city booking wherein they’d stay with us in NYC overnight and then we’d all take the JFK flight together.
Understand that 40 minutes is a legal connection with Delta but legal times are aspirational rather than realistic (especially since Delta has a policy of not holding connecting flights—can say this from personal experience).
it was an 90 minute connection for them when they booked their tix-just fortunate that they paid for refundable since Delta pulled these shenanigans. (Delta did the same thing to us over the holidays and we missed our connecting by 10 minutes).
Note that overnight connections are permitted on international fares (except Canada) and it could be the same price as originally paid or DL may waive fare diff because of schedule change. So they could just fly from SYR to ATL the night before and meet you there for the ATL-BZE flight and avoid additional flight. Hotels are pretty cheap around ATL and we've booked overnight connections through there to Caribbean/Central America to provide a longer connection and avoid having to get up so early in the morning for flight to ATL.
Last edited by xliioper; Mar 5, 2022 at 8:58 pm