On this subject, I'd welcome any thoughts on my current predicament.

We're booked on a flight from LAX that arrives into SCL on Friday morning (Sept. 30), followed by a SCL-PUQ flight, departing at 9:35am. Both flights are LATAM, but separate PNR's, so unprotected. When I originally booked the LAX-SCL flight, LATAM indicated that the arrival time was 6:50am, leaving a reasonably comfortable 2hr45m connection time. However, upon checking my itinerary last night, I now see that the arrival time is showing as 7:50am (based on the experience an FT'er in a different thread, it sounds like LATAM forgot to take into account Chile's recent "spring forward" daylight savings time and had to update its schedule at some point ).

So now the connection time is down to 1hr45m, which is a lot more dicey - it's 5 minutes shy of LATAM's published MCT for I/D connections in SCL, which is 110 minutes, and, from this thread and others, it sounds tight since we're arriving in the peak morning crush of inbound int'l flights.

I could rebook the SCL-PUQ flight to either a 10:25am SCL-PMC-PUQ flight or a 3:09pm SCL-PUQ flight (neither would have lie-flat seats, which I snagged on my currently booked flight). But I don't love losing the lie-flats and adding a long layover or an additional stop. Would it be completely crazy to keep the 9:35am flight and try and make it? Obviously we would be at the mercy of LATAM if we don't make it in time, but would would they be likely to place us on one of the later flights that day without much hassle (assuming there are seats left), or just tell us we're out of luck and we have to pay for new tickets? Any experience with LATAM's rebooking process after missing an unprotected connection or other thoughts on what the move is in this situation?