Connecting International Flight: Detroit (DTW)?
I'm going to be buying tickets to Paris here shortly and am in a slight predicament. I will be flying from Omaha, NE (OMA) to Detroit, MI (DTW) on May 9th and have narrowed down the flights to choose from to two. One of the flights has a 4h 49m layover in DTW which would be okay, but is a little on the long side for me. The other flight has a 1h 10m layover and I'm worried that it might be too short, do to the fact that my connecting flight is an International flight. Would I be safe with the shorter layover? Or should I go with the longer one?
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I personally would go for the longer layover. A layover with only 1hr 10 min, it doesn't take much for you to misconnect to your International flight. I personally would rather play it safe. Bring some good books, an ipod, laptop computer if you have one, puzzle books...to keep you occupied on the flights, and on the layover.
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Definitely go with the longer one. If you're flying Northwest, they have a huge new terminal at DTW, and it offers plenty of things to do during a layover. Like the other person said, an hour and ten minutes isn't long enough. If your flight out of Omaha is delayed, you'll have even less time to make your connection. It's a long trip. You might as well make it as enjoyable as you can.
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I'd go with the longer connection just to be safe. Assuming your flight is on time, a 1h10min. connection is probably enough time (although cutting it close). You'll probably be on a smaller plane from Omaha to DTW so it won't take you long to get off the plane. However, DTW is a big airport, and although it's one of the best major airports I've been to, it's still big. So even if your flight from Omaha is delayed by only 10 or 15 minutes, you could be in trouble, especially since you will probably have to change terminals. So I would go for the longer one just to be safe. DTW is great for a major airport though, and there's plenty of stuff there.
