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Throw Down Your Leavy Screens
UA and IAD noob here.... Last time I flew through IAD was over 25 years ago and I remember absolutely nothing about the place.
I have a flight CLT-IAD-BRU coming up in April. UA CLT-IAD but SN metal/UA codeshare IAD-BRU. I have a 1:14 connection and will be checking a bag. IAD-BRU is in premium econ. 1:14 is usually way shorter of a connection than I'd take (I'm used to 2 hrs-plus in ATL or JFK on DL) so I'm a little twitchy.
From the pinned post it looks like I meet the MCT for dom->intl. Seeing where the inbound CLT-IAD flight lands on the UA website has been hit-and-miss. The first two nonstop flights seem to arrive at a D gate but the third/last flight of the day always seems to arrive at A2A/A3A. The second flight of the day (leaves CLT 14:54, arrives IAD 16:28) roughly corresponds to the time of my flight in April so I'm assuming that I'll arrive at a D gate.
First question: is my assumption of arriving at a D gate reasonable?
Second question: where will the SN flight likely depart from?
Third question: whose app should I use to track my bag IAD-BRU? United's or Brussels'?
Where your flight arrives is also aircraft type dependent. I don't see any 737/A320s on CLT-IAD in a cursory schedule check; instead it is E175 or CRJ550. Both can end up at D or A. For your sake A is better, but D is fine.
SN will depart from somewhere between B45 and B51. That's the gate area for Lufthansa group airlines. (I think there may be certain times of the year where SN gets kicked to a different gate, but we're going to assume B45 to B51 for now and no matter what they will be departing from B).
You'd rather arrive at an A gate (A1 through A6) in which it is a straight walk from the arrival A gate to the departure B gate as they are the same concourse. If it is D you will hop on a mobile lounge which will take you to the same A gates area with the same basic walk.
Unless you have mobility challenges that is a reasonable connection time between those points. (You will not get any help from moving sidewalks on any of that, just on escalators). Many folks go the opposite direction, from the B43 Turkish lounge to D gates, less than an hour before departure based on a 20-25 min time to navigate the airport.
D to B is annoying, since there is no straightforward way between them despite being physically on the same side of the airport, (see map
https://www.flydulles.com/travel-inf...-terminal-maps ) but as long as you can walk well and are on-time you'll be ok.
I can't answer the baggage tracking question.