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Peeps
Looking at a flight from Washington to Seattle. No direct flights and the largest window is 45 minutes with a change at Chicago with Amercan Airlines. Anyone experience of internal connecting flight? Is this doable or an accident waiitng to happen in pursuit of 140 Tier points?
TIA
Should be doable a it’s all within T3.
But both Washington and ORD airports are some of the worst for delays so it’s just a lottery. If it’s one ticket then AA should either hold the Seattle flight for you or put you on the next one (although you may end up flying 1 extra stop to Seattle.
AA are also well-known for cancelling and changing flights so there’s a chance you won’t even end up on your original itinerary! As long as you’re on one booking you will get to your destination, it depends how much you want those 140 points how much disruption you are prepared to tolerate.
IAD to SEA via ORD is only 80 points – 40 per leg.
It’s only 140 if it’s on a non stop flight.
AA will re book you but won’t hold the SEA flight unless there are a lot of people misconnecting.
If any misconduct results in an over night stay at ORD AA only pay for a hotel if it’s their fault (mechanical etc) but not for weather / ATC.
But 45 mins is doable but tight. If there are options with a longer connection I’d take one of those.
IAD to SEA via ORD is only 80 points – 40 per leg.
It’s only 140 if it’s on a non stop flight.
AA will re book you but won’t hold the SEA flight unless there are a lot of people misconnecting.
If any misconduct results in an over night stay at ORD AA only pay for a hotel if it’s their fault (mechanical etc) but not for weather / ATC.
But 45 mins is doable but tight. If there are options with a longer connection I’d take one of those.
Thanks as that’s not clear when you check points on ba.com
AA are also well-known for cancelling and changing flights so there’s a chance you won’t even end up on your original itinerary! As long as you’re on one booking you will get to your destination, it depends how much you want those 140 points how much disruption you are prepared to tolerate.
Just looking at options & TY
Should be doable a it’s all within T3.
But both Washington and ORD airports are some of the worst for delays so it’s just a lottery. If it’s one ticket then AA should either hold the Seattle flight for you or put you on the next one (although you may end up flying 1 extra stop to Seattle.
Thanks
Thanks as that’s not clear when you check points on ba.com
If you’re doing a multi flight trip you need to check each segment for avios and TPs rather than just the result for the start and end point.
I just did a dummy google flight search and Alaska do a couple of non stop flights a day to SEA from both IAD and DCA which would get you 140 TPs.
I’ve nor checked what plane or type of seat you’d get though.
Thanks as that’s not clear when you check points on ba.com
If you’re doing a multi flight trip you need to check each segment for avios and TPs rather than just the result for the start and end point.
I just did a dummy google flight search and Alaska do a couple of non stop flights a day to SEA from both IAD and DCA which would get you 140 TPs.
I’ve nor checked what plane or type of seat you’d get though.
TY: exploreing various options to hit 1500 tier points
45 minutes will be fine for a domestic to domestic at ohare. As others have said delays is a bit of a lottery but assuming it’s an aa ticket (not an avios redemption), they’ll be loads of same day standby or confirmed change availability 24 hours before that you can action any time before departure to route yourself thru somewhere else if needed (or even get the earlier DCA/IAD (hope you’re booking DCA unless out at dalles), flight if you want)…
You can do it all thru the aa app. When I was living in Chicago, whatever time i was flying, I’d just head to ohare in the morning, sit in flagship (miss that place!) And standby for all of the earlier flights….
ORD T3 has some very long walks.
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