Originally Posted by
emma dog
racandee , it seems like you have a good perspective on the situation and your options. 40 min is a little aspirational, meaning there’s a >50% chance they’d make it but it would be stressful. And as you point out, they’ll lose a day of vacation if they miss the once daily flight.
A lot of it seems to depend on when the agent decides to close the gate for the BZE flight. If they close the door 10 minutes before the flight, it’s possible. 20 minutes before, physically impossible.
And of course the outbound flight has zero padding in it—zero. 2 hours 15 minutes gate to gate SYR-ATL (which happens maybe 10% of the time—this is a 2 hour and 30 minute route in reality).
it’s only a 4 night trip, and not a cheap one on a nightly basis. I suspect they’ll just wind up canceling and wish us a fun trip—they certainly wouldn’t have booked a 40 minute connection if that had been the option on the table.
Delta doesn’t offer overnight connections (they’ve requested that from Delta and have been turned down) so they’re literally almost forcing these people to cancel rather than work something out. I know airlines care nothing about their customers but you’d think they’d want to prevent the cancellation of a refundable ticket.