Originally Posted by Bonehead
Given the purportedly illegal connection, you might ask CO to ticket you ALB-CLE-DEN-SLC, with the CLE-DEN on CO 1531 and DEN-SLC on DL 665. Gets you to SLC at 2:24. The 35-minute connection in CLE shouldn't be a problem. It's better than 29 minutes at IAH, where you could arrive at E-21 and leave out of C-19 or something.
Purpotedly illegal connection... how CO-like. One can call CO Reservations and ask for the Minimum Connection Time at IAH for a domestic to domestic online connection.
If times are flexible, I'd suggest ALB-EWR-SLC instead. Otherwise, I'd look into fares/schedules on other carriers. I highly doubt CO reservations would reroute to DL for a schedule change like this.