Timeline for How can a traveler challenge the "minimum airport connection time"?
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| Apr 22, 2018 at 8:00 | comment | added | George Y. | @Calchas this plus your other comment looks like a good answer, i.e. I should appeal to Austrian. Please post it and I'll accept it. | |
| Apr 21, 2018 at 13:08 | comment | added | Calchas | @GeorgeY. Austrian Airlines made a specific decision to offer a 25 minute MCT on certain routes (see my comment above). Probably that is to enable your desired connection to exist. The alternative is you wait overnight, not that they reschedule a flight. | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 23:05 | comment | added | gparyani | Don't know about Austrian Airlines, but American Airlines frequently advertises connection times as little as 45 minutes in its hubs, such as one that requires one to take a transfer bus at LAX. Usually, it's because the arrival times of their flights are padded, and the first leg usually arrives 15-30 minutes before the indicated arrival time. | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 22:12 | comment | added | Jim MacKenzie | @GeorgeY. Challenging the legal connection time isn't going to do you any good, then - they'd have to amend their scheduling to accommodate your preference, and that isn't too likely. By all means give feedback to your airline that you feel it's an overly tight connection; maybe if they hear it from enough people, they'll look at adjusting the inbound or outbound flight times a little. (I'm assuming the connection isn't on the same aircraft, in which case there's zero chance of missing it.) | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 22:07 | comment | added | George Y. | More relaxed schedule is not always available, unfortunately. In my case the next connecting flight is next morning. | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 21:53 | history | answered | Jim MacKenzie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |