A really bad one would ORD cxn from C1 gate to B24 and you have less than 45 mins

I just don't think that these EWR and FRA connections can compete with this beauty. Seriously.

33 minute connection - door closing on flight 733 = 23 minutes

Within that 23 minutes you have to get from the far end of Terminal A to Terminal B.

http://files.ionosplatform.com/Files...ort_layout.png

In that time you have to deplane, walk from the tarmac to the terminal, take the escalator up to the main floor, walk to the middle of terminal A, take the escalator to the train, take the train to Terminal B, take the escalator to the gate level, and walk to your gate.

I think you might just barely be able to do that on the minority of days that flight 3035 is on time, but 58% of the time this flight is at least 15 minutes late.

Agreed, EWR is the worst link in the system. Never book any UX-to-mainline international itinerary starting after 1200pm.

If you arrive FRA on time you'll make a 1:15 or less connection, even involving bus gates and rescreening. The problem is UA getting you there on time.

Not saying it's a good idea, but if I can routinely make it from the door of my flight in the B concourse to the RTD curbside pickup on the far island in 7 minutes, then this *should* be possible as well. Not likely, but possible.

After my 4th or 5th MRY to SFO connection cancelled this summer, I finally learned to start routing through LAX. Adds some time but those flights are at least leaving the ground.

Why the limits? I'd say any connection of any length at EWR.

the outbound was 2 hours late?

Nope. Original booking 41 minute connection. The inbound was, intact delayed 15 minutes. Nuts. They are in shape, so at least they were ready for the gate run.

Sounds like a perfect connection for a mileage run. Get to Denver, miss flight, turn back, ORC ^

Where is B24? Aren't there only 22 B gates?
I have done low Cs to high Bs before with what turned out to be a negative ten minute connection :)

My worst have 30-ish minute connections at LAX... from the end of T8 to the end of T6. Doable but a long dash to be sure.


While I'd never book one of those, I was lucky enough to make my sub-1-hour connection at FRA Friday morning. It had been a 2:50 connection until UA got me in about 2 hours late...

We pulled up at a gate--no bus!--and my connection involved only passport control, no security, and was pretty close by. I'm still at a loss why I sometimes have to go through security at FRA when going US-Schengen, and sometimes don't, but I believe we have a whole thread about the vagaries of FRA connections and the chance that following signs will get you to your gate albeit sometimes with multiple border crossings and screenings. ;)


I've made basically that connection before. It involved a lot of running and yelling at people to get out of the way (particularly on the escalators and moving walkways between C & B--never have figured out why "stand to the right" is such a hard concept to grasp).

During a recent IRROPS, I was pretty desperate and almost had the 1K desk book me EWR-ROC-YYZ (with a 30 minute turn in ROC) because none of the EWR-YYZ directs could get me to Toronto in time to make a connection on to YYT.

We eventually found a way around it, but it would have been a helluva way to see Rochester...

Probably the most ill-advised connection UA offers is an overnight at ICN followed by an OZ flight ICN-PUS.

You have a 90% chance of having your bags checked to ICN, forcing you to choose between (1) stay airside overnight at ICN or (2) retrieve your bags and try to re-check them at an OZ counter where they will insist your flight does not exist.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...snt-exist.html

Another good one is the "direct flight" UA was selling LAX-EWR-BOS a while back that had a 13-minute connection in EWR. Someone mentioned it on FlyerTalk, I sent them a tweet, and they renumbered / stopped selling it.

I booked award DTW-EWR-SFO-HNL for thanksgiving as that was the only route with flat beds. Originally had under an hour each in EWR and SFO, but any change in flight time would likely give me an illegal connection. UA came through with a 35 min connection in SFO and they rebooked me on ns EWR-HNL. ^

I saw a routing on unied.com from SAN-IAH-LHR in August which left SAN at 3:05 pm. with a thirty-minute connection at IAH to the last flight of the day to LHR. Can't call it the "most ill-advised connection" I ever made because I am not foolish enough to actually book such a thing.

30 minute connections in IAH come up all the time at united.com.