"KGB (KGB)" wrote in message
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Hi

My wife and I are flying from the UK to the USA with Delta on 2nd
September, connecting in Atlanta to our final destination, the flights
having been booked a few months ago. Our original booking gave a
transit time of 1hr 35mins in Atlanta - not ideal, bearing in mind we
have to go through US immigration, collect our baggage, go through US
customs, etc, then re-check our baggage and almost certainly change
terminals. We weren't too concerned as, in the past, we have managed
it many times in under an hour, so the timing is certainly "do-able"
in normal circumstances.

However, I recently realized that Sept 2nd is the Thursday before
Labor Day weekend (we Brits aren't too familiar with dates of US
public holidays) plus, Delta has now rescheduled our internal flight,
knocking 10 minutes off the connection time, reducing it to 1hr
25mins; which I think is a bit tight.

The problem is actually now somewhat academic as, after contacting our
travel agent expressing my concerns, they managed to change (free of
charge) the US domestic leg to a later flight, giving us a more
sensible 2hr 35min connection time in Atlanta.

However, from pure curiosity I would be interested to know whether
people think that 1hr 25min would have been enough time to get from
our International arrival gate to the Domestic departure gate, two
days before Labor Day weekend. It is an official Delta connection but
some years ago, we had a bad experience connecting through Dulles
airport on the Friday of Labor Day weekend; and although we caught our
flight (only just) it is an experience I wouldn't want to repeat!!!.

Would experts in this NG have left the booking as it was, or did I do
the right thing to change the booking? - I'm just curious.

Regards

KGB

Over a period of years ATL has expedited their re-check/customs/entry
process to the point where it's a slam dunk.

To me, however, this stuff is like the stock market....can you sleep at
night? Particularly on a long haul flying into the wind.

I think I'd like the 2 hr thing myself, particularly if the number of
flights continuing to where ever were not numerous.

With that kind of layover youl may do well to stay in the international
terminal where ATL puts on its best face before going to the next gate in a
timely manner.

regards, s