LAX transfer time?

[dps5791]

Hi

I am flying Qantas Brisbane to New York in August, with a 2 day stop in LA to start with.

I am thinking about going to Vegas for the two days but wondering about transfer times. My flight from Vegas would arrive back at LAX at 7:20 am on the saturday morning with United. My connecting Qantas flight on to New York then leaves LAX at 9:15 that same morning from tom Bradley. SO there is just shy of 2 hours between flights.

I assume I shouldn't have to go through immigration again onward to New York, so that should cut time down, but is this a realistic window of time to transfer from United arrivals to Qantas terminals? Does anyone know how hectic Tom Bradley can get on a Sat morning? I have been there at night several times and it's quite a spectacle with the sheer volume of people. I am going to try to only have hand luggage on me,(other members of my group are meeting me in NY so they can take my other luggage!

) so that would no doubt help.

Thanks for your help!

Daniel

 

[NM]

While it should be sufficient time (just) if everything is on time, what is your contingency of the LAS-LAX arrival is later than scheduled?

Note that you should normally be aiming to be at Check-In 2 hours before a QF LAX-JFK flight if you are not already checked in and have bags to check. At best you will be at the QF check-in about 1 hour before departure.

Personally I would be coming back the night before.

 

[dps5791]

thanks for the advice...I had planned to come back on the fri night at 10 pm until i noticed the united flight on offer and it got me thinking....but I think you are right, caution may be the best approach here as missing the New york leg would really screw things up badly. Do you know of any cheap places to stay O/N near LAX?

Daniel

 

[NM]

Do you know of any cheap places to stay O/N near LAX?

There are many airport hotels around LAX. Many are members of the major chains. Most are reasonably priced and have shuttle buses that operate to/from the airport.

 

[JohnK]

Do you know of any cheap places to stay O/N near LAX?

This thread may provide some useful information.

 

[djfuzz]

I agree with NM, better to be safe and be there the night before and check-in around 2 hours prior to departure, but just to play the devil's advocate...

I've checked in to QF107 from LAX to JFK a few times, and for what it's worth, in my experience TBIT is (relatively) dead around this time, even on Saturdays - and on top of that, QF has two desks open for pax checking in for the LAX-JFK leg, of which there are very few (most tend to be connecting directly from the morning eastern seaboard arrivals). So checking in and clearing security doesn't take that long - and you have to drop checked bags through a separate security carousel, which doesn't open until sometime between 7.00am to 7.30pm, so getting there too early isn't that advantageous either.

The most important thing is to be there well ahead of when they close the flight - so definitely more than an hour prior to departure. The risk you take with the morning flight from Vegas is that you can't afford for it to be delayed at all, and to be honest, that's probably too risky (especially if you can't check your bags straight through to JFK).

 

[MelUser]

Assuming that I hold a ticket on American AirlinesTPA-DFW-LAX, leaving TPA at 5pm into 8:50pm LAX.

Assume I also hold a separate ticket QF94 LAX-MEL, leaving 23:15.

Will AA in Tampa be check me through to Melbourne?

If not, will they be able to check my luggage through to Melbourne and leave me to checkin in again with QF at LAX?

 

[JohnK]

Even though on separate tickets I see no issue with AA being able to check you through to MEL.

It would not hurt to call QF and AA and inform them of the other itinerary so they can add an information sector on each PNR.

 

[sadlier]

Saturday morning I would imagine there are a heap of flights coming in from the East to Vegas and going back to places like JFK half empty. So why not just dump your QF LAX JFK and buy a separate LAS JFK?

On the other hand you might ask yourself why you even want to go to Vegas.

 

[Ewok]

dps5791 You will make it with plenty of time to spare. I have done similar many times. Enjoy Vegas!