My recent review trip to Europe didn’t exactly go as planned, as I had a downgrade issue on the outbound, a frequent flyer account suspension on the Middle East detour, and now I want to share what happened on the return. After a great flight in American’s new “premium” Boeing 787 business class, I misconnected, and had to spend the night in Chicago.
There’s a reason I waited to write about this, which will become more apparent in a follow-up post…
In this post:
I went as fast as I could, and made good time, given the reality of both of my gates being toward the far end of the terminals, plus Terminal 5 and Terminal 3 being completely disconnected.
I arrived at my connecting gate at 6:53PM, six minutes ahead of the official departure time. Obviously that’s less than the 10 minutes prior to departure that doors usually close, though I also know American has been promoting how it’s holding more flights for late connecting passengers, and I figured maybe this is a case where they’d do that — after all, American has no connecting flights that depart from Miami after this flight arrived.
But nope, I arrived at the gate to find the “Flight closed” monitor.
Not only that, but the jet bridge had already been pulled back, so it seems like it wasn’t even close.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on One Mile at a Time.
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