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What Happens If a Airline causes me to miss a Connecting Flight from Another Airline?

I'm taking a trip in a few months and the Flight has one Connection in SFO (san fran, california). I will be taking Delta to SFO and then Asiana Airlines to Seoul, Korea. With a 1hr 30min wait between the two flights. If something were to cause my Delta Flight to be delayed, is there any recourse I can take? Or should I just schedule my flight to have ample time between Connections. "forwhatitsworth" does it matter if I am buying the tickets from expedia in a package type deal?

Public Comments

1. Always schedule your flight with ample transfer time; I give it a two-hour minimum. If the first flight is delayed, they have to do their best to put you on the next available flight.
2. If all flights are on one booking then you will be entitled to a free transfer onto the next flight. If you have made two diffrent bookings and you miss your connections, well you will need to "fix" it yourself.
3. I would highly not recommend what you are doing because: 1) Delta has no partnership with Asiana (although they do have a partnership with Korean Air who flies from San Francisco - Seoul as well) , and if you miss the flight, you might end up going through what these people did: http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/30/travel/tr-money30 2) I don't think 1h 30m is enough time to catch the Asiana flight because you'll have to go from T1 (which Delta uses) to International, checkin, and go thru security. Checkin & security could take a while if lines are long and the airport staff is really taking a while to process passengers. If lines are long, you'll probably have to rush to get your Asiana flight. Hope I've helped, enjoy your trip!