Originally Posted by
jljones78
I don't get it either, but it's easy enough for me not to book them. Given all the advance press about how this was going to be the summer of misery, I haven't booked a connection shorter than 90 minutes. I've still spent the night in DFW and DEN, but the extra time has saved me more than once.
I nearly always avoid them too, but then I have to keep an eye out because everytime there is the slightest change to anything on the itinerary, AA will rebook me into the earliest connecting flight (i.e. the ones that give a layover of ~45 minutes). My flight this weekend is three segments, booked originally with 2-3 hour layovers. They changed the take off time of the first flight by 1 minute (kid you not), and they rebooked the second leg to the flight with a 50 minute connection even though the original connection was still there and didn't even change.
For me, this isn't that annoying in terms of buying tickets, but I am tired of calling for nearly every flight change to re-instate my originally chosen itinerary (usually 1.5-3 hours connection).
((and most of the reason I care about this, is because I -never- will clear my F upgrade when I need reaccomodated, and I am tired of even 10 minute delays resulting in my getting kicked out of the front cabin on the next flight).