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Re: Minimum Connection Time
« Reply #60 on: February 23, 2016, 01:31:38 PM »
1 Hour in FRA connecting from SQ to BA, enough?

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Re: Minimum Connection Time
« Reply #61 on: February 23, 2016, 05:12:21 PM »
What's MCT for AA in MIA Domestic To Intl?
I have family that did it in negative 8 min. Only bec bec flight was delayed 1.5 hours and crazy other family that was already there made them hold the plane.

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Re: Minimum Connection Time
« Reply #62 on: February 23, 2016, 05:17:07 PM »
Is 1 hr 15 minutes enough for ua to swiss in zrh going from ewr to tlv?

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Re: Minimum Connection Time
« Reply #63 on: February 23, 2016, 05:20:16 PM »

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Re: Minimum Connection Time
« Reply #64 on: February 23, 2016, 05:26:08 PM »
How's 1:20?

Not great. You need to clear immigration in FRA and any delay at all will probably make you miss your flight.
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Re: Minimum Connection Time
« Reply #65 on: February 23, 2016, 05:27:04 PM »
I have family that did it in negative 8 min. Only bec bec flight was delayed 1.5 hours and crazy other family that was already there made them hold the plane.
Lol. What about people without crazy family?  :)

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Re: Minimum Connection Time
« Reply #66 on: March 01, 2016, 09:11:18 AM »
Minimum connection time in IST from and to international Turkish flights?

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Re: Minimum Connection Time
« Reply #67 on: March 01, 2016, 09:15:23 AM »
Minimum connection time in IST from and to international Turkish flights?

Should be around 1 hour I believe.
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Re: Minimum Connection Time
« Reply #68 on: March 01, 2016, 09:24:57 AM »
Should be around 1 hour I believe.
Thanks, I also believe it should be about an hour, but I was looking to find out if anyone knew the exact official time.

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Re: Minimum Connection Time
« Reply #69 on: March 01, 2016, 09:28:27 AM »
Thanks, I also believe it should be about an hour, but I was looking to find out if anyone knew the exact official time.

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Re: Minimum Connection Time
« Reply #70 on: March 01, 2016, 09:30:06 AM »

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Re: Minimum Connection Time
« Reply #71 on: March 01, 2016, 09:33:47 AM »
Would anyone know if it's doable to skirt the minimum connection time if I buy the tickets separately, checkin online for the second flight, and then just make a run for my connecting flight when I land?  I'm looking to land in Istanbul on one ticket and depart on a second ticket 40 minutes later. Both are on Turkish, both are international, and I won't have any checked in luggage.

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Re: Minimum Connection Time
« Reply #72 on: March 03, 2016, 01:02:54 AM »
Would anyone know if it's doable to skirt the minimum connection time if I buy the tickets separately, checkin online for the second flight, and then just make a run for my connecting flight when I land?  I'm looking to land in Istanbul on one ticket and depart on a second ticket 40 minutes later. Both are on Turkish, both are international, and I won't have any checked in luggage.
I wouldn't do that. If your inbound flight lands late and you miss the flight you're trying to make, you won't be protected. However if the flight that you actually book as the connection is just a back up to the flight that leaves 40 minutes after you land, so that even if you miss the flight you really want to be on you still have a backup flight, then I would say it's fine.

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Re: Minimum Connection Time
« Reply #73 on: March 03, 2016, 07:36:42 AM »
I wouldn't do that. If your inbound flight lands late and you miss the flight you're trying to make, you won't be protected. However if the flight that you actually book as the connection is just a back up to the flight that leaves 40 minutes after you land, so that even if you miss the flight you really want to be on you still have a backup flight, then I would say it's fine.
Thanks. Do you think there's a chance that Turkish's system would be sophisticated enough to not let me check in for the first flight, since I'm already checked in online for the second flight that leaves 40 minutes after the first one?

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Re: Minimum Connection Time
« Reply #74 on: March 03, 2016, 09:02:19 PM »
Thanks. Do you think there's a chance that Turkish's system would be sophisticated enough to not let me check in for the first flight, since I'm already checked in online for the second flight that leaves 40 minutes after the first one?
I have no idea, not even if it were another airline's system.

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Re: Minimum Connection Time
« Reply #75 on: March 15, 2016, 12:58:16 AM »
Thanks. Do you think there's a chance that Turkish's system would be sophisticated enough to not let me check in for the first flight, since I'm already checked in online for the second flight that leaves 40 minutes after the first one?
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Re: Minimum Connection Time
« Reply #76 on: March 15, 2016, 10:53:58 PM »
Is 50 minutes in TXL, arriving from KRK departing to JFK all on AB.
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Re: Minimum Connection Time
« Reply #77 on: March 16, 2016, 12:51:07 AM »
Is 50 minutes in TXL, arriving from KRK departing to JFK all on AB.

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Re: Minimum Connection Time
« Reply #78 on: March 16, 2016, 01:40:50 AM »
Not necessarily so, I once booked a ticked that did not have a legal connection time I ended up missing the flight and was later compensated because it was the airlines fault for allowing me to book it.

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Re: Minimum Connection Time
« Reply #79 on: March 16, 2016, 11:03:24 AM »
Tight. Very tight.

What about coming in from LH to SQ with a 55 min connection ? I know FRA is a huge airport, but exiting EU usually takes faster than entering

Also is there any place than would be able to sell it on 1 ticket ?