40" Connecting Time at ORD--Sufficient?
Feb 21, 2006, 5:08 pm
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40" Connecting Time at ORD--Sufficient?
AA is offering a SFO-ORD-FRA flight option this summer with flights 1554 and 84, and it provides only 40 minutes at ORD to make the connection (650pm to 730pm). Isn't this cutting it a little short? Can the baggage be transferred that quickly with some degree of success?
Feb 21, 2006, 5:15 pm
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I just checked tonights' schedule and 1554 arrives at K10 while 84 departs from K5 so teh connection shouldn't be that big of a deal if you cross your fingers against no major delays and that the gates are relatively close. That said, you will be arriving ORD when boarding has already started for flight 84.
As for baggage that is a whole different animal. I have had baggage make it with as little as 20 minutes and not make it with as much as an hour and a half.
As for baggage that is a whole different animal. I have had baggage make it with as little as 20 minutes and not make it with as much as an hour and a half.
Feb 21, 2006, 5:48 pm
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Originally Posted by Reindeerflame
AA is offering a SFO-ORD-FRA flight option this summer with flights 1554 and 84, and it provides only 40 minutes at ORD to make the connection (650pm to 730pm). Isn't this cutting it a little short? Can the baggage be transferred that quickly with some degree of success?
Feb 21, 2006, 6:50 pm
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I have done a 40 minute connection at ORD on a STL-HNL, and a 55 minute on STL-LHR. In both instances, the outbound gate was only 2 or 3 gates away from the inbound gate, worked fine. Not sure I would try it in winter, though.
Feb 21, 2006, 7:18 pm
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Note the use of 40" means 40 seconds and won't be near enough (except for The Flash).
Feb 21, 2006, 7:21 pm
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If weather gods are with you, you should be fine. If not... we were subjected to hours of ORD flow control on the ground at SFO Jan 2's AA 1486 SFO-ORD to connect with AA 88 ORD-BRU, so when we made it back to the gate, I'd already called EXP with my cell phone and got rerouted SFO-LAX-LHR and onward.
Lucky - AA 1486 left 13:17 PST Arv ORD 18:45 CST after AA88 had been long gone - though it left late at 18:03 CST, it wasn't late enough. That was the one day in December or January it missed the connection, so hopefully you will be fine. Good luck!
Lucky - AA 1486 left 13:17 PST Arv ORD 18:45 CST after AA88 had been long gone - though it left late at 18:03 CST, it wasn't late enough. That was the one day in December or January it missed the connection, so hopefully you will be fine. Good luck!
Feb 21, 2006, 7:39 pm
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Originally Posted by ricktoronto
Note the use of 40" means 40 seconds and won't be near enough (except for The Flash).
Feb 22, 2006, 9:45 am
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Seconds v. minutes
I routinely use 2' 40" to mean 2 hours, 40 minutes. This is because seconds are not a suitable measurement in the transportation industry (except for the time I made a 5 second connection to a flight).
That said, how would one property abbreviate hours and minutes?
That said, how would one property abbreviate hours and minutes?
Feb 22, 2006, 9:52 am
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Originally Posted by Reindeerflame
That said, how would one property abbreviate hours and minutes?
Feb 22, 2006, 9:58 am
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2h 30' 40"
2 hours 30 min 40 seconds!
2 hours 30 min 40 seconds!
Feb 22, 2006, 9:59 am
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Feb 22, 2006, 1:29 pm
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Originally Posted by Reindeerflame
I routinely use 2' 40" to mean 2 hours, 40 minutes. This is because seconds are not a suitable measurement in the transportation industry (except for the time I made a 5 second connection to a flight).
That said, how would one property abbreviate hours and minutes?
That said, how would one property abbreviate hours and minutes?
The use of ' for minute and " for second relates to distance, not time
3' 40" means 3 minutes 40 seconds where 1 geographic minute is 1/60 of 1 degree and 1 second is 1/60 of a minute . (1 minute around the equator being 1 nautical mile )
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