Originally Posted by
ethernal
Excessively short MCTs are arguably a form of bait and switch: selling tickets to passengers that Delta may reasonably know are not likely to be flyable by a passenger.
Delta has the data and we do not, but I would be extremely surprised if even 50% of tickets at MCT result in misconnections. As a pax it's easy to focus on the fear and stress of a missed connection where even a 20% chance can feel like a "big deal". But Delta is setting MCT based on large-scale data and I think it is going way overboard to call it a "bait and switch". For every mobility-impaired pax in the last row a 753 that blocks in 0h14 late (meeting A15) that needs to change terminals in ATL, there are able-bodied pax in the front half of the plane who arrived 9 minutes early with a shorter walk.
Last time I had a 0h35 connection in DTW it was something like B10 to A75 and I had time to snack in the SkyClub.