42 minute connecting time in SEA from DL to KE?
May 17, 2019, 1:12 pm
#16
Join Date: May 2009
Location: SEA
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Is there a chance in the event of an IRROP, DL books the OP on a flight to another airport on the West Coast that has later flights to ICN on KE metal? SFO and LAX both have service to ICN that take off later in the day. (sure, this risks the original connection at ICN if ICN isn’t the final destination)
May 17, 2019, 6:03 pm
#21
Join Date: Oct 2016
Posts: 264
Both DL and KE are showing fares for my itinerary with only 42 minutes connecting time between a DL domestic flight to a KE flight bound for ICN. Is this really doable?
I know in Asia, tight connections like these would have grand staff picking up then dropping off the passenger from one gate to the next. Will DL or KE have this service in SEA by any chance?
I know in Asia, tight connections like these would have grand staff picking up then dropping off the passenger from one gate to the next. Will DL or KE have this service in SEA by any chance?
May 17, 2019, 6:51 pm
#22
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: PNW
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Thanks for all the response.
The routing I was looking at is PSC-SEA-ICN for September. The PSC-SEA segment is on Delta Connection, and is offered either as a "DL" or a "KE" codeshared flight. This routing option appears multiple times (various combinations of KE and DL flight numbers) on a search on both the DL and KE web sites.
If I book this with all "KE" flight numbers (whether codeshare or own KE metal) on the KE website, I get Prestige Class/ DeltaOne for about 3.5K. If I book this on the DL web site, price starts at 3.7K on the same routing! LOL There is an early morning Delta Connection departure at PSC, but for some reason, it does not appear as an option at all on the KE web site, and only on certain days on Delta (and that would actually give me 6H+ connecting time in SEA).
I am no stranger to MCT flights, but this was on AA to AA, or AA to CX in either DFW or LAX several years back. I have never been met at the gate. (But of course when in Asia, I have often been met at the gate by ground staff, even with over an hour connecting time! CX would usually escort me to the nearest lounge.)
The routing I was looking at is PSC-SEA-ICN for September. The PSC-SEA segment is on Delta Connection, and is offered either as a "DL" or a "KE" codeshared flight. This routing option appears multiple times (various combinations of KE and DL flight numbers) on a search on both the DL and KE web sites.
If I book this with all "KE" flight numbers (whether codeshare or own KE metal) on the KE website, I get Prestige Class/ DeltaOne for about 3.5K. If I book this on the DL web site, price starts at 3.7K on the same routing! LOL There is an early morning Delta Connection departure at PSC, but for some reason, it does not appear as an option at all on the KE web site, and only on certain days on Delta (and that would actually give me 6H+ connecting time in SEA).
I am no stranger to MCT flights, but this was on AA to AA, or AA to CX in either DFW or LAX several years back. I have never been met at the gate. (But of course when in Asia, I have often been met at the gate by ground staff, even with over an hour connecting time! CX would usually escort me to the nearest lounge.)
May 17, 2019, 7:13 pm
#23
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Austin, TX
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I’ve done a similar flight connecting from MSP-NRT. Ran from gate to gate and *just* made it. Exciting but not fun... Since then always leave 2H for layovers over water...