Originally Posted by
storewanderer
So the fact that I am asking probably answers my question but I'll throw it out there:
45 minute connection at DEN.
The flight I'll pick up at DEN mid afternoon is the "last flight of the day" to the destination in question.
There is a flight that could get me to DEN 3 hours earlier (then I'd still join the same plane as above to final destination) but costs $100+ more than the one with the 45 minute connection.
I have no desire to have a nearly 4 hour layover at DEN if I can help it.
Knowing this is Southwest I am mulling around:
1. Paying the extra $20 for WGA+ then rescheduling the day of to the flight that leaves 3 hours earlier
2. Book WGA standard, watching the flight closely the day of, and if the one with the 45 minute connection is late, try to get onto the earlier flight.
But even if things run on time is the 45 minute connection at DEN even possible unless you are literally at the next gate over? Seems tight to me. I've done it in the past, but Southwest seems to run late more often than "the past" that I am thinking of when I did this.
without knowing which cities it’s hard to advise.
your flight to denver is coming from somewhere else. How likely is that flight to be late? Many flights come from somewhere else.
southwest has a policy if your flight is the last connection of the day to X, try hold planes.
it might take you 10-25 min to get off the plane
hard to say in denver how far apart your connection will be. It might take you 10-15 minutes walking
you get therr around 15-20 min before flight while it’s boarding.
long layover in Denver…..
I can do this and plan on having a sit down meal at one of the restaurants. I can easily change concourses. The latter flight could mean afternoonnthunderstorms cause weather delays.