pbiflyer

But often times, you can get the Delta rate at a hotel, which is significantly cheaper. But you have to ask for it. Helps if you have access to a CRC.

Marysunshine

Okay, this thread led me to ask: I have a 44 minutes connection in Cincinnati. I've never stopped there so is that a fair conneciton time?

jottman2

SLC is a very easy airport to change in unless you are delayed for some reason. It should not be a problem.

fb3003

guys - 2x in atl, the whole airport got show down because of the rain, and i saw the agents giving hotel vouchers to every one from all flights... was this just them being nice?

MikeMpls

You don't have 35 minutes, you have 20 minutes. At any time after T-15 minutes, the plane can push back w/o you.

If you arrive on a jungle jet they often don't use either a jetway or the built-in steps -- you have to wait for someone to roll up a metal staircase. I've incurred several substantial delays in that area, and not every FA is bright enough to give up after a few seconds & let people climb down the built-in steps.

Then you have to to wait for the gate-checked luggage ....

And if your plane is 5 or 10 minutes late on top of that ... rots of ruck.

We've been fly thru SLC 2X-4X a month for the last year and have had several close calls. So far we've been lucky, but people who just automatically regurgitate that it's "easy" in 35 minutes aren't thinking thru all the likely scenarios.

MikeMpls

"Limited"?

Almost all of our flights have involved "B", and about a quarter involve transfers between E & B.

& I've seen sections of the wonderful moving walking non-operational, too.

They need to hustle. Maybe they can borrow the cops' mountain bikes if they're not watching.

RobertS975

Any time your connecting flight is already boarding when you get to the gate, that is a CLOSE connection in my lexicon. Close enough that any minor delay on the taxiway, waiting for the gate to clear, waiting for outbound traffic out of the ramp, waiting for gate checked luggage to be rolled forward on RJs... any delay can have significant adverse consequences.

indufan

I stick with the easy tag. I had several connections last year at 20 minutes on the schedule. I stressed and made every one of them. SkyWest doesn't work on the 15 minute rule, do they? From a practical standpoint, mainline doesn't either.

Joby

I do a trip through there almost monthly. If DL is delayed or is late getting in for whatever reason they may not let you on. I had a flight that left on time and was late getting in by 20 minutes. I had a friend on the plane telling me the door was still open and they would not let me go out to it. Everything later was full.
Lost that day, had to fly to another city and drive 3 hours to get where I needed to go.

Now I catch a fight that gives me over an hour and then try to do a standby on the 30 minute layover flight. That usually works and at least I fly into the city I was planning to go to. If I cannot get on the earlier flight I'll just catch lunch or go to the CRC.

NCLSEA123

I would have liked to have gotten a connection with at least an hour connection time, but unfortunantly award tickets limit your time choices. Oh well......

Loran

I had a similar connection, but in reverse: BLI-SLC-JFK, with 35 minutes scheduled. I don't remember if I got in early or not, but I had time to
-walk from the furthest E gate to the terminal
-use the bathroom
-stop at Starbucks
-get to my C gate during final boarding (about 15 min before departure)
-get bumped off my JFK flight to an EWR flight leaving 10 minutes later - for 400 Delta Dollars (but into a middle seat)
-briskly walk to the D gate for final boarding of the EWR flight to find out that the JFK-flight agent really did call the EWR gate and get me moved out of a middle seat ^

All in all, it worked out quite well!

MikeMpls

I've had plenty of flights leave early, close to the 15 minute mark.

What helps in the lower part of the B concourse is that they often schedule 2 flights at about the same time for the same gate. If the other one's loading, yours ain't going.

rebadc

Delta sold me a ticket with a 27 minute connection in SLC.

DFW - SLC - PHX

There is another PHX flight if I miss-connect.

Mainline DL to Skywest........27 minutes......Hmmmmm

scassett

As long as you arrive on time this should be no problem. You can go from any Delta gate to E concourse (Skywest) in about 10 minutes. Also, DL flys to PHX about every 90 minutes if you miss. ^

Matt340

My ATL-SLC-BOI connection was also less than 30 min. and I managed not only to take the connection, but also to have a pizza and buy a DL Model.