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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]40 minutes definitely tight at ORD- that's probably the Minimum Connection Time for United domestic-domestic connections there. MCT is the minimum time they will sell you a ticket for- shorter than that and their system won't do it as a single ticket. Different airports/airlines have different MCTs, and they are longer if including an international connection, of course.

Domestic flights usually start boarding around 35-40 minutes before departure time, and yes try to close the door 10 minutes before departure time.

United uses both T1 and T2 at ORD, but they are connected behind security. The issue is that T1 has concourse B (the one close to the road), and concourse C (the one you reach through a tunnel from B). If she say comes into Concourse C and 2nd flight is out of T2, she would have to walk to the middle of C, go through the tunnel to B, then walk to the southern end of B, through the connecter to T2, then out to the gate in T2. It could be a solid probably 12-15 minute walking max. Or they could be 2 gates down from each other and it's 30 seconds of walking. Definitely look at which gates those flights use on recent days (flight aware.com is good) to get an idea, but don't assume it will always follow that pattern on her day of travel. Gate assignments are complicated.

Finally, United has a program called ConnectionSaver that strategically holds flights for a few minutes if the system calculates it saves enough connections, but doesn't impact later flight times. Pretty cool actually. Again, don't count on it, but if the arriving flight is 10 minutes late and there are 10 people from it going to departing flight, good chance the system will signal them to hold it for an extra 5 minutes so they make it.

https://crankyflier.com/2019/06/20/a-more-detailed-look-at-uniteds-connectionsaver/[/quote]

Oh good lord. This is too much information. She'll either make it or she won't, there are too many variables to game it all out. [/quote]

Not too much info.  It's explaining the realities of ORD United Terminals.   Most people are not aware of Terminals 2 being used.  And odds are, if you are flying thru ORD, you are using terminal 2 for one of your flights (otherwise you'd be on a direct flight).    I flew in August into Terminal 2, F12 (end of F gates) and departed from Terminal 1 C17 (so at the midpoint right where you come out of the underground tunnel).  It took me 21 mins to get between the two, and I was running/going very fast.  And I was in Business, row 2, so first off the original plane.   So even though I can move fast, you have tons of other people wandering around, most looking at their phones while they walk, so you spend the entire time dodging idiots who are not watching what they are doing.  I'd say it would take the average person closer to 30 mins.  My first flight was late and my 2nd flight started boarding just as I reached the gate.

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Oh and ORD is much like ATL (but just a smidge better) in that it took almost 15 mins from touchdown until we were at the gate.  So add it all up, and making a 40 min connection is not very likely at ORD.

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Well, to be clear, 40 minutes is the time from door opening on flight 1 to door closing on flight 2.[/quote]

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