Minimum connection time on UA
 

Is there any place on UA's website where the minimum connection times are listed?

For my upcoming mileage-run, I have planned a short connection at RNO (arriving from SFO and departing to SFO on a new ticket within 56 minutes) and at LAX (arriving from SFO and departing to LAS on the same ticket within 38 minutes).

Until some weeks ago I was able to book these connections on the UAL website, but now they are gone. I will be traveling with no luggage at all, so that won't matter, and stay on UA mainline all the time. Any idea if I can make that connections?

Greetings - Dirk

These are available in the PDF version of the electronic timetable

http://www.uatimetable.com/United.pdf

on page 2, upper left-hand corner, "How to build your own connections".

edited to add: Good luck with those LH M&M min segments http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif. I have been working on a C RTW and penciled in (SYD-) SFO-RNO-SFO-RNO-LAX-LAS-DEN-COS-DEN-PHX-TUS-PHX-DEN on one portion for 45,000 LH M&M status miles. Weather in SFO, and possibly in RNO, along with general system delays might cause some problems. If you can arrange some of these for a week-end it might be easier?



[This message has been edited by transpac (edited 03-08-2002).]

Thanks for the link. At least for SFO and LAX I now have a refernece as to connection-times, and both times I am on the safe side.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">edited to add: Good luck with those LH M&M min segments http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif. I have been working on a C RTW and penciled in (SYD-) SFO-RNO-SFO-RNO-LAX-LAS-DEN-COS-DEN-PHX-TUS-PHX-DEN on one portion for 45,000 LH M&M status miles. Weather in SFO, and possibly in RNO, along with general system delays might cause some problems. If you can arrange some of these for a week-end it might be easier?

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This is a run consisting of three one-way tickets on a weekday (a wednesday). Wife and my travel-schedule do neither permit doing this on a weekend or stretching this run on more than one day, sorry...;-))!

Greetings - Dirk

djohannw - You won't have any trouble at RNO: the inbound aircraft from SFO is the same outbound aircraft to SFO.

Where you could have a problem is any ongoing connection after you return to SFO. If the inbound to RNO is 2 hours late, your outbound will be impacted and could cause you to misconnect at SFO if you have a tight connection there.

I've oftened wondered if those on a mileage run have used the minimum connection times to arrange flights with tight connections late at night to get a free/reduced price hotel room from UA when the tight connection is not made due to UA's fault?

Thanks for the confirmation, I was expecting this, but was not sure.

Do you think a two-hour delay could be possible? I padded my schedule in SFO for the connection with close to two hours (1:42 exactly). But a two-hour delay would surely bust my plans...

Greetings - Dirk

Unfortunately, when the weather impacts SFO, a two hour delay is always a possibility. Just hope there are no low ceilings the day you transit SFO.

[Edited for typo.]

[This message has been edited by Nevada1K (edited 03-11-2002).]

Fortunately with the reduced flight schedules, SFO delays have been much reduced this winter.