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If you're confused, it's like flying into JFK for a connecting flight out of Newark. I've done it happen in London (had a flight into Heathrow, but the outgoing flight was out of Luton) and Tokyo (flight into Haneda, outgoing flight out of Narita). Both experiences were quite hectic, to say the least, and I'm glad it hasn't happened since.
No, but I've seen it done. I was on the CTA Orange line from Midway and some fellow riders were riding downtown to transfer to the Blue line to O'Hare. Requires lots of spare time between flights.
Can this happen on a single ticket journey? Or would you deliberately have to purchase the second leg as a separate transaction? Seems like a huge liability if you're the airline planning this, or working in codeshare.
I've connected between Heathrow and Gatwick. I made sure I had plenty of time though.
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Originally Posted by Jesse44
Can this happen on a single ticket journey? Or would you deliberately have to purchase the second leg as a separate transaction? Seems like a huge liability if you're the airline planning this, or working in codeshare.
In my case I purchased the second leg as a separate transaction.
I've seen Some Booking websites do a cross city connection.
Few times years ago some airline website would do it, but they would do 6+hour connections, May still do it such as LGA to JFK, but I'm sure they are few and far between.
Yes I've done that. Not intentionally tho. We were flying ORD -> IAD -> CDG. When we got to O'Hare we found out our first leg had been cancelled. This was before the days of smartphones and cellphones were still pretty rare. So we had no forewarning of this cancellation. I really pressured the agent at the check-in counter to find us an alternate. She suggested staying overnight in DC and flying to Paris the next day. That was simply not acceptable. So I asked if they had a flight in to DCA leaving soon and they did. We flew in to DCA where an agent met us at the gate and gave us a voucher for a cab. Then we took a cab out to IAD. We made it in time. But what a stressful way to start a vacation.
I would not be able to do that most of the time because of visa issues.
You may think it's a PITA to dash from Heathrow to Gatwick. It would be nice for me to be able to do that but I'd need to apply for a UK visa first and that kinda sucks the fun out of it. Transiting through the same airport generally does not necessitate obtaining a visa (except in the case of the U.S, which is why the US is entirely off my travel list).
There have been a few times where I flew into one airport on a company plane and then had to hightail it to another airport to get back home. As far as booking a commercial flight that required getting from one airport to another, I have never had to do that.
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