AA's airport minimum connection time table
Jul 28, 2004, 5:54 am
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Excellent and extremely informative stuff that's hard to find elsewhere -- thanks, hillrider.
Jul 28, 2004, 7:36 am
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All very interesting, but I can't make those .....
I've refused flights, changes to flights if I feel the connecting time doesn't work for me. I won't run between planes or allow myself to get aggravated. I know how long it takes this person to make connections and I go by that.
Jul 28, 2004, 8:36 am
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hillrider, Thanks for that, good stuff!
And you certainly have an active (and likely accurate!) imagination.
And you certainly have an active (and likely accurate!) imagination.
Originally Posted by hillrider
DISCLAIMER: THE INFORMATION ON THIS POST IS MADE UP.
Jul 28, 2004, 9:11 am
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Originally Posted by hillrider
Flighs arriving from Canada's buffer zone (all AA destinations) are considered domestic.
That also, of course, means that if you're travelling, say, PHL-BOS-YHZ the connection is really easy (just stay within the Earhardt), but YHZ-BOS-PHL is horrible (immigration, customs, bus all around the airport to get from E to B, through security (either main or Siberia), then another bus out to Earhardt).
Jul 28, 2004, 9:57 am
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hillrider - good stuff! thanks for making all this available for all to see.
However, I doubt that it's humanly possibly to connect domestic-to domestic in JFK from gates 22-23 (T8) to the eagle terminal in T9 or to the far gates (48 and 49) in T9 in under 35 minutes, especially when T9 security is backed up. AA must be overly optimistic with this transition.
However, I doubt that it's humanly possibly to connect domestic-to domestic in JFK from gates 22-23 (T8) to the eagle terminal in T9 or to the far gates (48 and 49) in T9 in under 35 minutes, especially when T9 security is backed up. AA must be overly optimistic with this transition.
Jul 28, 2004, 10:38 am
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Thanks for the table.
I have one question: Despite a 29 minute DD connection at ORD, the exceptions (in the footnotes) say no connection between flights 305 and 73 (which is 33 minutes).
Of course, 305 arrives from LGA at 8:22am and 73 departs for HNL at 8:55 am, so the likelihood of making that connection is slim anyway. But wouldn't there be lots of 30-45 minute connections (not widebody to all, as those are 40 minute minimums) that are also unreasonable and should also be excepted as well? Why is this one the only exception?
I have one question: Despite a 29 minute DD connection at ORD, the exceptions (in the footnotes) say no connection between flights 305 and 73 (which is 33 minutes).
Of course, 305 arrives from LGA at 8:22am and 73 departs for HNL at 8:55 am, so the likelihood of making that connection is slim anyway. But wouldn't there be lots of 30-45 minute connections (not widebody to all, as those are 40 minute minimums) that are also unreasonable and should also be excepted as well? Why is this one the only exception?
Jul 28, 2004, 11:31 am
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Originally Posted by marlborobell
I would assume that doesn't include YHZ, which still doesn't have preclearance.
Jul 28, 2004, 11:37 am
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Originally Posted by FWAAA
I have one question: Despite a 29 minute DD connection at ORD, the exceptions (in the footnotes) say no connection between flights 305 and 73 (which is 33 minutes). Of course, 305 arrives from LGA at 8:22am and 73 departs for HNL at 8:55 am, so the likelihood of making that connection is slim anyway. But wouldn't there be lots of 30-45 minute connections (not widebody to all, as those are 40 minute minimums) that are also unreasonable and should also be excepted as well? Why is this one the only exception?
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Dec 7, 2004, 8:29 pm
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Originally Posted by hillrider
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Is 1:50 enough time to make it from T3 to T1 AA-> BA connection with checked bags?
Dec 7, 2004, 8:47 pm
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The info is real.
I'm assuming that hillrider added the disclaimer to avoid any claims along the lines of "I missed my connection and it's all your fault!"
1:50 will be enough time, especially since you don't have to clear Immigration and customs at LHR (like you would in our own backward country on a transit). The Brits haven't adopted all of our lunacy yet.
I'm assuming that hillrider added the disclaimer to avoid any claims along the lines of "I missed my connection and it's all your fault!"
1:50 will be enough time, especially since you don't have to clear Immigration and customs at LHR (like you would in our own backward country on a transit). The Brits haven't adopted all of our lunacy yet.
Dec 7, 2004, 9:09 pm
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Let me add one that I am, unhappily, bitten by day-after-tomorrow: NRT has a connection time of 2:45, which strikes me as the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen, especially if you have no checked luggage.
This baloney has forced me to Haneda airport, a couple-hour journey (at least, since the SJC flight arrives at NRT at Tokyo's rush hour) from NRT, in order to connect. Then, I've got to sit for 2 more hours until my connection. There was, of course, a perfectly acceptable NRT-departing flight 2 hours after arrival, but NO-OOOO. And it's the last departure of the night.
Steaming,
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This baloney has forced me to Haneda airport, a couple-hour journey (at least, since the SJC flight arrives at NRT at Tokyo's rush hour) from NRT, in order to connect. Then, I've got to sit for 2 more hours until my connection. There was, of course, a perfectly acceptable NRT-departing flight 2 hours after arrival, but NO-OOOO. And it's the last departure of the night.
Steaming,
SST
Dec 7, 2004, 9:18 pm
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Originally Posted by SST
Let me add one that I am, unhappily, bitten by day-after-tomorrow: NRT has a connection time of 2:45, which strikes me as the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen, especially if you have no checked luggage.
Dec 7, 2004, 11:22 pm
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Originally Posted by SST
This baloney has forced me to Haneda airport, a couple-hour journey (at least, since the SJC flight arrives at NRT at Tokyo's rush hour) from NRT, in order to connect. Then, I've got to sit for 2 more hours until my connection. There was, of course, a perfectly acceptable NRT-departing flight 2 hours after arrival, but NO-OOOO. And it's the last departure of the night.
Dec 8, 2004, 10:13 pm
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Hmmmmm. I'll ask at the transfer desk if it's not too crowded (last time I was in NRt, it was a zoo). My guess is with usual Japanese efficiency, I'll be told no, my ticket is for Haneda.......