Anyone fly out of Cincinatti much??

[NCRedding]

I need help in planning a trip this summer to Hawaii. I am inclined to take Delta to Cincinatti then onto Hawaii. The problem is that I would only have 43 minutes between my arrival flight and my departure flight to Hawaii. It is the only flight to Hawaii--if I missed it, I would have to take the next days flight. I know that it is a connecting flight, but lately that hasn't meant anything when travelling--I've been bumped from 2 connecting flights in the last year because of travel delays.

How big is Cincinatti's airport? Woudl you risk a 42 minute layover?

 

[CaliforniaDreaming]

We had a 40 minute layover in Cincinnati on our way to LAX a few years ago, and made the flight no problem. But, since they had many flights to LAX, there really wasn't any worry.

Is there any way you could get an earlier flight into CVG? Then again, if you do miss the flight, they could probably try to get you onto a connecting flight via Atlanta, Salt Lake City, or Los Angeles.

 

[coasterville]

Well Delta through Cincinnati, let me give you the biggest piece of advice:

Try to predict which gates the flights will arrive and depart from. YOu could pull the flight status of the same flight you are going to take, but just check today's status. That will give you what the gate asignments were today. Its not a guarantee, but its a predictor.

You will hopefully get two gates with the same letter. A,B, or C.

If so you will be in the same concourse and in the cases of A nd B its just a matter of walking down a long straight hallway (they do have moving walkways in some spots)

If you have two different letters, that means a concurse change. To go from A->B or B->A there is an underground train located in the center of B, and one far end of A. To go to/from C to any other concourse, you will have to take the free shuttle bus. Busses run directly between each concurse and C. To go from C, just exit the concurse (its in a totally seperate building) using the doorway labeled with the concourse you want to go to both exits are in the center of the 4-armed concourse. To go from B to A, take the escalator in the center of the concrouse labeled "To C Concourse" and then there will be a bus stop at the bottom of the escalator. (It's the same as the escalator to go to the US Customs office, so if you see the signs for that, its at the same place) From A to C, go to the far oppostie end as the train station, and you will find an escalator down to the bus stop.


As for timing, if you are in the same lettered concourse you should be FINE, I always deduct 30 minutes from the given layover, so in your case I'd think I had 13 minutes. Going from B->A or A->B is probably doable, and there is a walkways alaongside the train tracks if you miss the train.

The shuttlebus though, if you have to go to/from C, I know I'd be sweating it. Thats just my opinion.

Then again, I got from from MSP terminal F to MSP terminal A in under 30 minutes, Mind you I must have looked like a blur as I ran through the terminal.

David "Will be flying out of Cincinnati to Disneyworld next Saturday" Bowers

 

[NCRedding]

Thanks for the info. I may go with an earlier flight to CVG, which I had hoped to avoid simpley because we'll be flying so much that day, but I'd rather wait arouind than be sweating missing a flight. Of course, I may also risk it, since the flight is delayed 50% of the time--decisions, decisions.

David--I;m printing out your directions so that when we go, I'll know what to do. Thanks so much

 

[TammyC]

Adding to David's explanation.. (unless things have changed since I last had a Comair connection, which was a while back). Typically only Comair flights use concourse C. So check your flights, and you may be able to rule out the bus ride to concourse C.

Tammy

 

[coasterville]

SOme more tips:

go to delta.com, scroll down to the bottom fo the screen and you will find a flight status checker. key in your flight number, press Go, on the resulting screen verify its the same flght, then press Details, you will get the gate assignments, now the good part, go ahead and click on the gate assignment, and you will get an airport map.

The map has the relaitve position of gates, as well as the train and bus stops labeled.

If your flihgt number is in the 5000-6000 range, that would be aa Comair flight, and you will have to involve yourself with the Comair C building