Hi all,

Disaster has been averted, partly. I've got a BA redemption ticket ORD-LHR-HEL-LHR-ORD and I'll continue my AONE there in November. BA managed to change the LHR-ORD BA297 to a 767 with no first class and I was bumped to J. It has required a few calls to get me to another flight with a F so that I don't have to see all the consultants there in J...

Anyway, now I'm on BA299, scheduled to arrive 18:10. I've then got 19:45 AA 607 to LAX and unfortunately that's the latest ORD-LAX flight at least on AA on that day. So I've got 1:35 to go through immigration, collect my luggage, check in (I'll try to do that already in Helsinki but it's a different PNR so it depends), change terminals, go through security and rush to the gate.

Probably no way except if BA299 arrives early?

/hv

Are you American, Finnish, Estonian or other?

Finnish. So immigration is routine and shouldn't take but a minute (for me, the queue is another thing). And I'll be in first on both flights so I'll be the first out and can use the first class security checkpoint.

/hv

Was on BA299 last week. From the plane to a cab (including waiting for luggage) in about 20 minutes. So it's doable on a good day. The two-class ORD-LAX flights are probably not that tight in A class so I'd imagine you'd have no trouble waitlisting for the next day's flights should you end up missing the 19:45.

(Well, I should update my optimistic assessment to mention that were delayed on departure by about 1.5 hours as the U.S. didn't clear the passenger list for travel until that time.)