I'm flying to Orlando from LAX in November. Originally, I had a red-eye non-stop, so I would leave LAX at 10:00ish and get to MCO around 5:30 or 6:00. Thanks to Covid, my flight got changed to where I have to change planes in Miami. I was able to rearrange my plans so it's not a big deal except for the annoyance factor, but I was confused by the times they gave me. They list the MIA to MCO flight as 1 hr 10 min long. Isn't it only 230 miles or so? I know they include buffer time, but that seems egregious to me.
Flight time from MIA to MCO?
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Karin1984
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Sounds about right, Amsterdam-Paris (a route I've done many times) is 300 miles and is also 1h15 on paper. In reality it's usually shorter. 55 minutes often. Only when we have to depart from and arrive at the furthest runways at both airports it's about 1h15.
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What day of the week are you traveling, what are the times of your new flights, and what airline(s) are you flying?. Also, what is your connection time in Miami -- short connection, long layover?
MIA can be a difficult connection if you are switching airlines, and if you have a long layover, there might be other options.
Oh dear. It's a Wednesday morning connection with only about 45 minutes between them. They are both American Airlines so I'm assuming the gates are close together. I hope.
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American to American, you should be fine as long as your incoming flight is not late. Almost all American flights are in Terminal D. D is huge, but there is a train that can take you from one place to another in D.
And if you do arrive late and miss the connection, there are probably a number of options to continue on to Orlando.
You should be fine, except for the fact that you are not staying a few days in Miami!
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Sounds reasonable to me. With short flights there could be some padding just to help with on-time performance, and in any case that's an estimate of gate to gate time. It is about the same as the flight times around here for maybe OAK-LAX which is about 400 miles.
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Sorry, off topic - but 2 years ago we flew into Amsterdam for the first time, I was so excited to be there. I think the taxi time from landing to gate was about 2 days long! Or at least it seemed that way! I didn't think I'd ever get off that plane...
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Depends on the airport. I think they might be factoring in how big MCO is. A plane directed to the furthest runway from the gate could take a while. Then there's the possibility of being stuck behind a line of planes waiting to take off.
Depends on the airport. I think they might be factoring in how big MCO is. A plane directed to the furthest runway from the gate could take a while. Then there's the possibility of being stuck behind a line of planes waiting to take off.
oh yes, I realize that. I was speaking specifically of Amsterdam as per my post.
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That place looks like a mess. 18R/36L is all the way out there. I think it's up to about 4 miles to get to runway 18R from the terminal. Maybe longer if they have to go around another runway.
Now Denver is odd. They just built it in an area with a lot of available land, built them extra long because of the altitude, and none of the runways cross each other. But it still seems pretty well laid out.
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I had the same experience at MCO (Orlando). We lived in Tampa, but I chose to fly out of MCO for an emergency flight that would get me to my hospitalized parent sooner. On return, we spent 25 minutes on the taxiway. Between that & the parking nightmare, I never flew out of or into MCO again.
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That's the Polderbaan
It's the longest runway we have, over 2 miles long itself and it can take 10-20 minutes to get to the airport. We always joked we were driving to Paris when leaving from this one. Taxi-minutes are longer than regular minutes.
That's the Polderbaan
It's the longest runway we have, over 2 miles long itself and it can take 10-20 minutes to get to the airport. We always joked we were driving to Paris when leaving from this one. Taxi-minutes are longer than regular minutes.
I swear that there are flights where it feels like we are driving back to my origin airport
It can be nerve-wracking when I have a tight connection and we are already delayed (I'm always going Schengen to International so have to go through passport control and generally have a long walk to get to the new gate). And, yes, it does prove the "time is relative" theory I don't usually have quite so long a taxi when going the other way.
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Actual flight time straight shot can be between 35-45 min ( of course the typical afternoon thunderstorm and weather can change things, aircraft type etc. ) Lufthansa flies this route occasionally when routes are diverted due to weather between Miami, Tampa and Orlando.Flown this before once myself when we were diverted from landing in Orlando due to storms and needed fuel. Flight times are block times ( gate to gate usually).
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There have been so many times I've driven long distances that a plane ride's time always seems like a miracle to me. The first time I flew to Orland as an adult, I left Philadelphia in the cold and got to Orlando like 3 hours later in the warm sun, and my first reaction was "what sort of sorcery is this?!?"
So 1:10 from Miami to Orlando? Not as big of a miracle, but still, that's pretty cool. That would be a 4 hour drive.
Although it is funny how the time doesn't seem proportional to distance, right? It has to do with how long you can be at top speed. There's a lot of "overhead" in the taxing, take off, landing, and taxiing part. 1:20 to go 230 miles, but 2:45 to go 1000 miles? It does seem crazy
So 1:10 from Miami to Orlando? Not as big of a miracle, but still, that's pretty cool. That would be a 4 hour drive.
Although it is funny how the time doesn't seem proportional to distance, right? It has to do with how long you can be at top speed. There's a lot of "overhead" in the taxing, take off, landing, and taxiing part. 1:20 to go 230 miles, but 2:45 to go 1000 miles? It does seem crazy
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