Connection time PHL
 

AA flights Sea-Phl-Dub giving warning of 1 hour connection time. Is this enough?

A question for the AA board perhaps?

In any case 1 hour should be fine if this is all on one ticket. You just get off your flight from SEA, walk to the gate for the DUB flight and wait to board. No need to collect bags or go through any security at PHL.

I connected thru PHL last week , domestic to international, it was easy. No train or bus, just a bit of a walk. It took about 10mins. I was also able to see that my bag had made it using the AA app (now why can't BA offer this 'track your bag' feature?), and priority tags worked with bag being one of the early ones on the belt at Manchester.

My only PHL experience had the DUB-PHL flight operating from "A-West", which is as far away from anything else as possible. Be prepared for a LONG walk, depending on where the SEA flight arrives. I could guess it will arrive at B or C, so possibly 10 minutes to A-West at a brisk pace.

http://maps.phl.org/phl/#mapView


*snap, Tim_T :)

As with any US connection your issue will be the time spent at immigration. I connected via PHL to MCO recently and it was relatively painless via US standards. PHL seemed reasonably compact. So unless you get unlucky in immigration would have thought 1 hour fine.

The OP is routing SEA-PHL-DUB, so no Immigration required at PHL ;)

If the route was reversed, US Immigration would be at DUB anyway.

[/pedant], with apologies ;)

If the SEA-PHL flight is on time you will have no problem at all. PHL-DUB will indeed leave from A-West, but the inbound flight might arrive into either A-East or B/C, the farthest gates of which are no more than a 15-minute walk away.

See this thread for more than you ever wanted to know about connecting at PHL.

Please continue this discussion in the USA>Mid-Atlantic forum

Prospero
Moderator: BA forum

Both SEA and PHL are in the US, thus no immigration ! OP simply walks off his inbound flight and to his departure gate. No Flight Connections, security checkpoint or other checks. Depending on his exact arrival gate, the walk may be between 5-20 minutes.

If the connection is sold by AA, it is within MCT and thus "legal".

Nonetheless, you know your own preferences and abilities. Just because a connection is within MCT, does not make it within SCT (Sensible Connection Time). If you require or prefer more time to make it from gate to gate, then do not book a short connection. Bear in mind that AA requires you to be at the departure gate for DUB no later than 30 minutes prior to scheduled departure. While you will not generally be off-loaded if not present, if the flight if overbooked and at risk of oversale, AA may offload you in order to avoid the oversale, if you are late.

As others note, the baggage app is helpful. It shows you what the agents see on their screeen and your bag is scanned at every movement. Thus, off the inbound flight from SEA and onto the aircraft to DUB. But, don't obsess about your luggage as there is nothing to be done about it anyway. AA ramp personnel know exactly which bags are missing and make the calculations to close the baggage holds based on that if possible.