brumm5150 said:
Hi,
I'm booked to travel MEL to JFK and the TA has got me on QF93 out of MEL which arrives in LAX at 0730 at T4, transferring to QF107 which is scheduled to depart at 0905 also from T4.
Is this enough time to transfer, what do I have to do when I arrive in LAX?
I did try to go out via SYD on QF107 so as to be on the same plane the whole way but the was no D availability.
QF107 if on time will start (re)boarding at appox 0845. On your arrival into LAX, you first have to pass through immigration, and you being in J should be further ahead of the majority of the plane. However you do not know how busy immigration will be due to the backlog from previous flights. Lets say 5mins to disembark, 15mins immigration, and 30mins for baggage collect as per simongr. It is now 0820.
You now have to line up past customs to recheck bag through screening, and this depends on length of line, (this has taken me nearly 30mins before), lets say queue is short, and allow 10mins. You then have to make the short walk from TBIT to T4, and pass through security. If security is empty this will still take you 5mins to take computer out, possible shoes off, liquids etc and then repack and reshoe. Time now 0835. If security is not empty time taken = unknown. You now have 10minutes to get to gate and board, should be easy at this point.
IMHO however lots of things need to go right, no queue's at immigration, recheck, and security, and QF93 to land on or before time. I personally would think it would be cutting it fine, however I am sure there are plenty of AFFers here who will say they have made the connection. It would be interesting how many haven't and what the ramifications where/are.
Reggie