Originally Posted by
racandee
1) their flight arrival time isn’t realistic. This route averages over 2 hours and 30 minutes and it’s scheduled duration is 2 hours 15 minutes It’s 2 hours just in the air. Only about 10% of their flights take 2.25 hours or less. In this case, the original connection time was cut by 50% by a post hoc schedule change. After the initial schedule change the layover was below the MCT which would have meant an automatic refund. But then Delta decided to shave 10 minutes off the scheduled flight time and the MCT was legal. Totally legit!
None of this is true. We fly SYR>ATL>CUN two or three times a year for nearly the past twenty years, every time a connection under an hour, including several within a minute or two of 35 minutes. I better knock on wood now, but we have made every connection, and have never had to run to do so. The flight time from SYR is well padded, it's far far from a non-realistic MCT.