Originally Posted by
VanSmack
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.
What time of day are you flying?
Delta’s May SYR-ATL early flight is scheduled for 2 hrs 15 min. It’s a 2 hours in the air, which gives 15 minutes for taxiing at both ends combined. There’s no padding there. Especially since virtually no flight on any airline has under 8-10 min taxi time at SYR (not sure what their issue is). It’s literally almost impossible for a 135 minute SYR-ATL flight to arrive in time for people to make 35-40 minute connections. 2 hours in the air, 10 on the run way at both ends, best case scenario flight is 5 minutes late arriving. Assuming the gate closes 15 minutes early on an international flight, best case scenario is roughly 15 minutes to make it from Concourse B gate to E/F gate once they’re off the arrival flight.
if it was even a 50 minute connection time, I’d say decent chance at making it. With zero padding and 40 minutes connection time, chances of making the international flight are well under 50%—Delta has no business offering that as a legal flight connection.
The current early Delta flight # from SYR is 2991, and it averages closer to 3 hours than 2 hours in real flight time.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL2991