Originally Posted by
Stockjock
Looking at an AA flight from SAN to DFW to LHR and then moving over to BA and onward to BCN. They're showing a connection time in LHR of roughly 1.5 hours. That seems tight and possibly best avoided, or no?
They also have a slightly later AA flight from SAN to CLT to LHR and again then moving over to BA to a final destination of BCN. A couple of hours longer overall, but a 3 hour layover in LHR, which seems a lot better. True?
Thousands of people make the T3-T5 transfer (and vice versa) without issue everyday often in half that time,
MCT isn’t an indication of how long the transfer actually takes but about airlines willingness to sell connections and to allow the movement of baggage and people between terminals.
If passengers weren’t making their connections in large numbers then airlines would simply stop selling them and that would reduce the convenience for many people.