90min at IAD, enough?
 

Hi folks,
arriving at IAD from Germany onto LH somewhere on B45-49. Connection Flight with UA to Florida departs 90min later at D10. Have to declare customs and baggage. Is it possible to catch the flight?
Guess i will be one of the first to deboard, cause i am travelling Business Class. UA flight will be in coach.

Any input will help. Thanks a lot

One ticket/reservation or two?
If one, no problem ...
If two and baggage not checked through, then challenging.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unit...ional-iad.html

If they are checking your baggage to final then you are a connecting passenger for immigration/customs activities. That matters at IAD as those are handled at the mid-field CBP facility instead of the main terminal. You should be fine.

OP - When you offload at IAD, you will be directed to midfield CBP if a connecting passenger and to the main CBP at international arrivals if not connecting. After processing (CBP and security checkpoint), you will emerge on the C concourse and walk to your new UA gate. If indeed your departure gate is D10 (highly unlikely to be certain until 2-3 hours prior to departure), it will be a hike, but easy to find. The C & D concourses are the same long concourse, with one end labeled C and the other D.

The standby on UA is a potential glitch here. Make 100% certain at check-in that your bag is tagged to its final UA destination. Even though you must cart it through CBP in all instances, if it is tagged as a connecting bag, you will go to CBP midfield for processing. If your bag is only tagged to IAD, it will be directed to international arrivals and you will reclaim it there.

Depending on the day of the week, time of day, your citizenship and whether you have Global Entry, I see a 90-minute connection as tough. A lot depends on the consequences of a misconnect. When is the next flight and is there availability if you misconnect? You will, of course, be rebooked, but LH cannot manufacture space for you.

The OP mentioned he or she is going as a non-rev standby on the UA flight out of IAD so he/she is not really making a connection anyway. Yes, the luggage is being treated as a connection but the passenger won't be. The consequences of missing the 90 minute connection are, presumably, no different than simply not getting on due to no seat being available.

OP is traveling nonrev standby on the domestic UA segment.

I would by no means plan on having the bags checked through by LH and if OP "misconnects" (to the extent that this is all on one ticket), there won't be any rebooking beyond rolling over to the next flight, presumably still nonrev standby.

OP is simply going to have to leave this to check-in and either go to midfield or international arrivals depending on whether his bag is checked to IAD or to his standby destination.

To emphasize what Often1 has written, everything depends on where your checked bag is going. If LH checks it through to Florida then you go to the midfield CBP facility as that's where your bag will be. If they only check it to IAD then you go to the CBP facility in the main terminal as, again, that's where your bag will be. It will be quite clear when you go through the process.