I'm gonna have a 15 minute layover in DFW Update again: I've made the flight!

"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
09/18/2019 at 20:11 • Filed to: None

My flight out of LAX is super delayed so my layover in DFW is now a total of 15 minutes assuming we still take off as expected. Since the gate closes ten minutes before departure I’m hoping like hell for a delay so that I get more than 5 minutes at best to make it from Terminal A to Terminal C. If I don’t make it, the next flight isn’t until 7am and since it’s weather the airline has told me to pound sand and wait if I don’t make the connection. So I’ll be late for work tomorrow, hotel is already past cancellation tonight, and I’ll have a fun time exploring DFW all night. Here’s to making my short layover somehow!

EDIT:

Flight aware has given me some hope! My flight is going to fly faster or found a better route I guess! Originally said 634pm (my next flight is 649pm). So I might actually make it. Also, Jeff Goldblum is on my flight apparently, so maybe the plane has.. Uh... Found a way.

Update again:

I have just made it to Dallas and thankfully my connecting flight is delayed a half hour. So now I should actually make it! What a day. I also watched Get Out on this flight. Was in the right stressed out mood for a thriller so it was an extra good movie under these conditions lol.

One more update!

I've made the flight thanks to the delay. Even had time to eat something from the grab and go kiosk at Fridays. It was overpriced but at least it was a decent tasting sandwich. Beats digging a cliff bar out of my bag or starving till i get in. No idea what might be open when I get on the road finally and I really need to get to bed anyways. Good day!

DISCUSSION (41)

TysMagic > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 16:31

We had this same situation, but the connecting airport was...LAX. It was stupid stressful, but we made it. God speed out there!

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 16:34

Buena suerte!

ttyymmnn > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 16:35

Tell the FA. They might ask the other pax to let you off first.

someassemblyrequired > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 16:35

If you don’t have bags you can swap to another airline, and they have to return your fare. Even if you do, I’ve made them pull bags if it’s a clear BS situation.

How far is your connection? Might be worth it to just fly to DFW and one way a rental car, then you can keep your hotel reservation.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > someassemblyrequired
09/18/2019 at 16:38

It's like a two hour flight to Florida almost so I doubt that's drivable. It's a work flight anyways, so I have no control over any of it. Just have to hope I make it otherwise I'll have to call my travel agency and who knows what happens then. It's weather related so only recourse if I miss the connection is to wait.

For Sweden > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 16:39

This sounds like you have an overnight layover.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 16:41

You are not going to make that connection if you land 15 minutes before the next one takes off . It will take 10 minutes to just get off of the plane.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 16:42

With luck they built enough buffer in the schedule to land near your scheduled arrival time. Happend to me leaving O’hare 1 hour delay leaving arrived in Atlanta 5 mins late.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > For Sweden
09/18/2019 at 16:44

Definitely probable, won't know anything until the plane is in the air and the pilot gives a solid arrival time. Maybe they can make that updated time. It's switching back and forth so I'm in limbo. Taxiing now so all I can do is wait. There's worse airports than DFW to get stuck in at least. I'll go check out that video game center where you can get like unlimited access for the day for like $20 or whatever it is. Food is decent too. Maybe my work will put me in a hotel and such, no idea haven't ever been stranded. I've had a 10 hour layover before though but that was midday and I eventually made it.

merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 16:45

Correction, you’ll have a 12 hour layover in DFW.

MM54 > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 16:50

Just reading this makes me anxious. I do not like being rushed when traveling , especially flying.

someassemblyrequired > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 16:57

If you have a work travel agency this is what they get paid to deal with. Try to make the flight, but if it doesn’t work out, have them sort it.

facw > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 16:59

Yeah, I don’t think that’s happening unless they hold the other plane for you (which is a thing that can happen). Good luck...

If you get stuck, I regret to inform you Arlington isn’t a happening nightlife spot, and the Rangers aren’t even in town.

Maybe they can get you on another airline?

Khalbali > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 17:07

I think they pad the times a bit, and then if there's a delay they can fly faster and make it up, and if not they cruise a little slower and save fuel.

Chariotoflove > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 17:09

Yeah, pilots do have some leeway to book it and make up time, especially to avoid screwing up everybody’s connections.

Sammyno55 > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 17:16

Last time I almost missed a connection it was through DFW. I informed the FA of my connection when we la te boarded in ATL. She was already aware. They flew faster to make up some time, I left the plane first, the gate agent gave me updated gte assignment for my connection, and they held the connection for me. I was the last person on and they saved a 1st class aisle seat for me.

If you miss it, email or call your travel agent and let them sort it out.

USUSGTO > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 17:26

I fly 7-9 times a month, to and from houston.. on an average. Unless I take a vacation.

And I USED to not care when flying the DFW.

Bu t a few times, the weather messed with my schedule and at work and I got an authorization to always book di rect flights.

I even get paid for working (schedule, meetings, planning, responding) during the flights and may be the company just wanted to minimize that. lol .

Fuck Connecting flights.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > someassemblyrequired
09/18/2019 at 17:27

We are supposed to use Egencia (corporate version of expedia) for our work travel agency and they can go suck a sack of moldy balls. Egencia is so useless that most of our employees are no longer using it especially for flights. I will use it for hotels that can be direct billed but that’s about it. I’m pretty sure there is still $1,4 00 can celed delta flight on my account, but they want $250 to rebook just through Egencia, not the airline.

Gone > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 17:51

Doable. If upper number A and lower C gates, run and take the skywalk. If lower A and upper C take the tram thing (I always run so fuck that thing anyways). If inbetween this sets of gates I’d run probably.

RockPhotoChick > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 18:28

I guess you’re midflight and using in-flight wifi? If you see this before the seatbelt sign is on for landing, spot a seat as far forward as you can (that’s not in 1st), and ask the flight attendant if you can move there. This can make aalllll the difference. If you have a specific seat “my doors to my next flight close 8 minutes after we land, and the next one isn’t till tomorrow. I see that seat 8C is open. Is it possible for me to move there for the remainder so I have a chance? I’d appreciate it, and you could be saving me a night in the airport.”

Instead of just “can I move up there?”

If they ret ort back to you that you can’t move up to those front handful of coach class rows because its economy plus or whatever, I was just point out that you’re only asking to be there for those few minutes before landing.

another beam of hope is that the flight that you are connecting to may not actually close the door at that exact time. Th ere is a little bit of flexibility that the flight attendants have before it’s officially marked as leaving late. So it’s possible they may still be finishing up boarding, and not close the door until 6 minutes before departure or something like that. But it won’t show up on the airline website, or on FlightAware (until it actually pushes from the gate).

Nail biter. Please update us after all is said and done :-|

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 18:31

Can you go chat with Jeff Goldblum. Get him to say some lines from Jurrasic Park.

Kinja'd!!!

M.T. Blake > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 18:45

I’ve done that! That airport is huge! Never thought I’d make my flight.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 18:54

Sounds like you’re going to miss your plane in Dallas. As a consolation prize, there’s a bunch of really good breweries and such to checkout in Dallas tonight.

someassemblyrequired > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
09/18/2019 at 19:16

Oh yeah anything Expedia touches sucks. I used to handle a lot of travel for a small business - so we were on our own. I’d usually have good luck being polite but firm with airlines and engaging on social media. Usually hotels would accommodate if you booked a replacement hotel with their chain where you got stuck. But in general, I would not book anyone on anything other than a direct flight. If there had to be a connection, it was always at a hub “closeish” to the destination so if everything got FUBARed there were lots of options. The client wants you there at the top of your game, and sometimes that means paying extra for the direct flight.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
09/18/2019 at 19:41

Thankfully I have about 40 now and it could easily grow since delays tend to do that.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > USUSGTO
09/18/2019 at 19:42

Yeah I get paid for flight time too, but it's a different color of money so me spending 12 hours at the airport is not factored into cost. I still try to minimize it though when I can.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > facw
09/18/2019 at 19:43

Oh I spent like 60 nights in Dallas last year so at least it's not an unfamiliar place lol

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > MM54
09/18/2019 at 19:44

At least it's not my own time. So it's less stress. I still don't like wasting company time on this but such is life.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > My X-type is too a real Jaguar
09/18/2019 at 19:45

Well yeah there was like a 3 hour buffer but that has gone away. Thankfully it's more delayed though so I have some buffer now.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc
09/18/2019 at 19:46

It'd be better than the one time I had a 12 hour delay in Arkansas on the way to Dallas. It was 6 hours away.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > someassemblyrequired
09/18/2019 at 20:19

I don’t live near a big airport so all my flights are usually on Alaska to Seattle. Except when I go ton Portland, that is a direct flight and oh is it nice.

smobgirl > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 20:41

I have an 8 hour layover in Denver tonight. Tomorrow is gonna suck.

someassemblyrequired > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
09/18/2019 at 20:46

Yeah as much as I enjoy Montana it won’t be the next Atlanta anytime soon. At least Alaska is excellent and Seattle has lots of options.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/18/2019 at 22:44

Oh, no worries. AA’s policy is always to hold the connecting flight for you...

/s/ Devilish snickers of a 10 year Exec Platinum.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
09/19/2019 at 00:24

I feel like I fly tooooo much and I only have gold status. But I guess my flights are rather cheap and I'm not going very far usually.

USUSGTO > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/19/2019 at 08:05

All I can say is, I learnt the lesson hard way. And I haven’ t taken a connecting flight, not thru Dallas since Feb 2018. Nope. Got burned too bad. massive waste of time and worst of it all, it shortened the time I was going to spend with family. So Fuck DFW - in hurricane season and fuck connecting flights.

caffeinegeek > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/19/2019 at 08:07

Broke a personal record earlier in the month. Due to delays, I had 6 minutes to make a connection at DFW. Full on s print from the mid-B gates to the mid-A gates. It was bad luck after bad luck. With over 1, 000 connections through DFW, this was only the second mainline flight I had arrive at terminal B. Also had a passenger insist on holding up deplaning to straighten out her skirt. I did get a high five from the gate agent. Told me it was a huge surprise I made it. I was the last pax to board.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > USUSGTO
09/19/2019 at 14:50

Unfortunately there were no direct flights between the airports I needed to use. Although there were layovers in alternate locations depending on the times. I generally avoid layovers on personal travel like the plague. But I'd gladly accept a layover with enough of a discount.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > RockPhotoChick
09/19/2019 at 17:13

I ended up making it since my connecting flight got delayed. I already have status so I get the better seats to begin with which is nice. But American flights are ALWAYS full so it's not like there's open seats to switch to usually.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/19/2019 at 23:01

I lost EXP, but the Mileage Program AAdvantage de-valuation was driving a wedge between us.

Now? Zero loyalty to anybody. Only h8t for Delta though.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
09/20/2019 at 19:22

I'd never bother with loyalty regardless if it were my money. Since work pays for my travels, I am forced into using American anyways and might as well try my darndest to stick with one hotel brand. Some day I'll get to stay someplace real nice for basically free. Airline rewards can add up too but my points are super spread out across every airline. Just have to keep up and not let them expire.