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Aug 18, 2022, 7:06 pm

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Adam1222

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Originally Posted by GCS2000

For the 7th time Delta has changed my flights/times for an upcoming trip.

I am flying from Richmond, VA to Anchorage, Alaska going through ATL and MSP.

The flight from RIC to ATL was originally 1 hour 5 min layover but is now 35 mins due to a plane and time change.

With current state of airline travel I realize that we may make the flight ok but I am fairly confident our luggage won't. This assumes we have no delays or issues in RIC.

Am I right in thinking I need to pick new flights?

No one can predict the future, so it's up to your risk tolerance. I've had myself and my luggage make shorter connections at ATL. If you or your luggage miss the flight, there are later flights ATL-MSP and MSP-ANC. (as well as ATL-SEA-ANC) If for some reason you really need to be there earlier in the evening and are risk averse I'd switch to either the early am RIC-ATL-SEA-ANC or the RIC-JFK- MSP-ANC

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