When Airlines change your flight times...

[DaveNV]

I think you would have missed your connection on your originally scheduled flight. Flying Delta the whole way through with a 30 min connection in MSP I would have given you a 70% chance of making your flight in that connection time. Changing to Alaska probably would have meant changing to a different terminal and my estimation would be a 20% chance of you making the connection and a 5% chance of your bags making the connection.

Good point! I have limited experience with Delta, and have never changed planes/carriers in MSP. So it's probably better that the new itinerary is all Delta, and in a smaller airport. I can hope, anyway.

Dave

 

[jackio]

We only ever fly Southwest most of the time. On our last flight it was scheduled to leave at 5:30 pm. I got an email that day telling me our flight was going to be delayed and not leave until 6:30. We live an hour from the airport so I told my DH we can leave about an hour later than planned because our flight is delayed.

Fortunately for us we always leave in time to make sure we get to the airport 90 minutes-2 hours prior to our flight depending on where we are flying out of. (If we are flying out of home airport, 90 minutes, 5 minutes through security. Flying out of Orlando we get there 2 hours prior because getting through security can take an hour.)

We got to the airport and checked our bags and looked at the digital flight schedule and see that our flight has been CHANGED AGAIN and is now leaving at it's original time of 5:30. THANK GAWD we got to the airport early or we would have missed that flight.

They never sent a follow up email letting us know the original flight time had been reinstated.

That's the kind of stuff that makes me CRAZY!

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

I think you would have missed your connection on your originally scheduled flight. Flying Delta the whole way through with a 30 min connection in MSP I would have given you a 70% chance of making your flight in that connection time. Changing to Alaska probably would have meant changing to a different terminal and my estimation would be a 20% chance of you making the connection and a 5% chance of your bags making the connection.

Delta handles all Alaska Air logistics in MSP, including ticketing, gate agents, and baggage handling. So as far as luggage handling goes at MSP, it makes no difference whether the flight is Alaska or Delta.

For connections, all Alaska Airlines flights use gates in Concourse F, while Delta operates out of concourses A, B, C, D, F, and G. (Actually the Alaska Air gates in Concourse F are also used by Delta). So making an Alaska-Delta connection at MSP can be a bit more difficult, just because the chances of the connecting flight being on a different concourse are greater making the Alaska to Delta connection.

The Alaska-Delta connection as MSP is easier than a Delta connection involving any other airline, since all other airlines either operate out of Concourse E in the Lindbergh Terminal or out of the completely separate Humphrey terminal.

 

[LisaRex]

After learning the hard way, I now always sign up for flight notifications.

https://www.delta.com/content/www/e...rip/delta-messenger-flight-notifications.html