PHLJJS From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 412 posts, RR: 0 Posted (6 years 11 months 2 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 1595 times:
Hey guys, booking a trip to LAX for September. I'm thinking about taking UA PHL-ORD-LAX on Sunday 9/17/06 which is a sunday. PHL-ORD(#337) is a B735 leaving at 6am and getting into ORD at 7am. I would connect to a B763(#854) leaving at 8am and getting into LAX at 10:10am. Is 1 hour enough time to connect at ORD? I really wanna take this routing because i want to fly on a 767 and don't wanna be crammed on a A319 with 2 of my friends on a cross county flight. It sounds okay to me since it's a very early flight and barring any exteme weather or MX delays out of PHL, there shouldn't be a problem, but I thought I'd take the time to ask the experts for advice before i made a final decision. Thanks for any help you can provide.
HPAEAA From United States of America, joined May 2006, 1020 posts, RR: 2 Reply 1, posted (6 years 11 months 2 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 1585 times:
UA dom to UA dom you should be fine... an hour conx at that hour of the morning should get you there with enough time for breakfast...
RoseFlyer From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 8787 posts, RR: 52 Reply 2, posted (6 years 11 months 2 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 1560 times:
You should have no problem. ORD isn't that busy in the mornings. ORD is messy in the afternoons and evenings when it has flights coming and going from all over the country.
Also United is banked in ORD, so it expects people to be making these 1 hour connections. There will probably be others on your flight making the same connection. 6am out of PHL isn't too bad either. Now if you were departing at 6pm and were connecting to the last ORD-LAX flight of the day, then it might be a bit different. ORD is a great airport before 2pm (which is when many of the flights from the west coast and Europe are arriving and crowding up the airport).
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ORDTerminal1 From United States of America, joined May 2006, 129 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (6 years 11 months 2 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 1527 times:
I worked at ORD as a UM Runner last summer. You can get anywhere in Terminal 1 within 9 mins. You'll be fine
RoseFlyer From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 8787 posts, RR: 52 Reply 4, posted (6 years 11 months 2 weeks 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 1507 times:
Quoting ORDTerminal1 (Reply 3): I worked at ORD as a UM Runner last summer. You can get anywhere in Terminal 1 within 9 mins. You'll be fine
For a large hub operation, transferring between mainline flights in ORD is pretty easy. I consider it better than ATL or DFW. It takes a bit longer to go between some express flights and mainline since T2 is a bit farther away, but there is a bus or you can walk. Fortunately though you don't have to worry about that.
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PHLJJS From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 412 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (6 years 11 months 2 weeks 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 1472 times:
Great!! Thanks alot folks. I'm definitly going to book these flights. I'm kinda excited this will be my first time on UA and a 767. Hopefully ch.9 will be turned on.
RoseFlyer From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 8787 posts, RR: 52 Reply 6, posted (6 years 11 months 2 weeks 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 1454 times:
Quoting PHLJJS (Reply 5): Great!! Thanks alot folks. I'm definitly going to book these flights. I'm kinda excited this will be my first time on UA and a 767. Hopefully ch.9 will be turned on.
The good news about this flight is that it is an internationally configured 767 with 3 classes of service. For those in economy this means that you will have a PTV with 4 movies, 4 short subject programming and then the airshow. It is a lot more fun and enjoyable than the domestically configured 767s.
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