Originally Posted by
tampaFL42
Flying TPA to SYD on Dec. 18, 2023. TPA to DFA is on AA and, of course, DFW to SYD on QF. Flying First/Business. When I purchased the tickets for two of us, the connection time was 2 hours 40 minutes at DFW. More than enough for my comfort level. Now the AA flight from TPA to DFW has been pushed back to only allow a 1 hour 15 minute connection at DFW to the QF flight. Sure, the connection time is allowable by the airlines, but that doesn't make it low risk. In fact, just the opposite in my opinon. A terminal change in DFW is all but guaranteed.
Feels tight folks. If that QF flight is missed (which leaves DFW at 9:15 pm) chances are slim of going to Australia that evening. AA does have an AKL at 11 pm as a Plan B on the fly, but, me and my travel partner are not getting on any flight that is not a Business seat flying all that way. What say you? Chill out and stay with the updated schedule? Or look for an earlier TPA deparure putting more connection time back in? Keep in mind this is going into Christmas and New Year's. So the ripple effect of a missed connection could be a disaster.
P.S. Bought ticket through AMEX. Did not receive an email, text or app notification from AMEX, AA or QF about this change. Somewhat perturbed about that! Glad I'm cathing this on my own now!
I am flying ORD-DFW-MEL in a few weeks and initially had a 2h30m connection. After several schedule changes on both segments it moved to closer to 1h45m. While that is plenty of time if the flight is on time, I didn't want to chance it so I called and they moved me to the ORD-DFW flight right before it. It's now a 3h30m connection which should give us plenty of time and options if we are delayed. If we were in coach we would have gambled....but hoping AA or QF has seats left in J that night to accommodate us just isn't how I like to roll
Happy to see the OP was able to get Amex to move to a better timed flight!