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Originally Posted by Dion_Iggy_Kipper!!!
see if I can take an earlier flight annd save myself some uneeded worrying.
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I've just been in your position a few times and I frankly hate it. I've been sitting at the start of the first leg of a trip, knowing I have a tight connection and am already anxious when it's time to leave and the door of the plane is still open...5 minutes later we're still sitting there...10 mins, we're finally backing up...ok...they can probably make 10 mins up in the air...and now we're taxi-ing to the other end of the city to take off...and now we have to wait for a plane to land...ok...we're now 15 mins late...frack....oh...and we're 3rd in line to take off...sigh...and now I'm running through the airport to make my connection and in the back of my mind I'm hoping my bags make it too...I've just learned I'm not usually comfortable with a tight connection and even if it means an extra hour in an airport, I'm willing to do it.
With planes, shinguard happens sometimes, might as well plan for it. I guess it's the project manager in me.
Your trip brings back memories of my flights when I was went to work in Finland: Regina-->Toronto-->Paris-->Helsinki-->Jyvaskyla. My Paris-->Helsinki flight was delayed because of a grounds crew strike (welcome to France) and my connection was so tight the pilot radioed down to hold my connecting flight. A sprint from the international to domestic terminal and I got on the flight which had indeed been held for me. I'm sure I lost a few weeks off my life because of the stress.