Atlanta airport transfers.

seniorcorporal5

Tauck travel has given me 69 minutes between a Delta arrival and a KLM deprture. Assuming Delta touches down on time is it possible to reach the KLM departure gate on time? Will KLM give my seats away if I am not 30 minutes early? My athlete days are long gone.

smarks50

I personally would not accept such a tight connection because it is rare these days that flights are on time. And remember that arrival time is usually touch-down; then you have to get to the gate, wait for the doors to be opened, disembark, find the next gate (maybe in another terminal), etc. Even if you got lucky and everything went well, you have to wonder about the transfer of your luggage, unless you are taking only carry-on.

Kathy18

I have been through the Atlanta Airport. There is a "train" connecting the various terminals and it runs frequently. If the connection has been booked that way then it might be assumed that it is doable. I personally try to build in closer to two hours when I have a connecting flight. As smarks50 stated, there are a number of factors that might make the 69 minutes stressful.

Bjhhh615

JimEgan wrote:

Tauck travel has given me 69 minutes between a Delta arrival and a KLM deprture. Assuming Delta touches down on time is it possible to reach the KLM departure gate on time? Will KLM give my seats away if I am not 30 minutes early? My athlete days are long gone.

It is doable if everything works
Our last connection in ATL was 5 hours and that's no fun

Silverfox40

We fly through Atlanta often and 69 minutes to make International connections is mighty tight. Hopefully there is a Plan B in case you get in a holding pattern situation for arriving which has happened to us in early arrivals ( 7 to 8 am ) or 5Pm to 6 pm in afternoon.

crackers54

I I recently had a close connection in Amsterdam only to run the airport to sit on the plane because it was late leaving. Less than hour is really close considering how many flights arrive late.

British

I would just call Tauck and ask them to change you to better connections. They had to do that for us when the airline changed one of our flights this year after we booked it, because the new time barely gave us a half hour connection time. The other thing we find is that you never know these days whether even though you think you stay airside that you may still have to go through security again. It seems to have happened to us more and more lately. In fact, In Dar Es Salem last year, we must have gone through security more times than I could count for a flight. Delta/KLM failed to transfer our luggage in Amsterdam after a late arrival last year too, they assumed we would not make the flight but we did. Our luggage arrived 24 hours later.

Shelley Ketchum Dickerson

We have a connection in Atlanta to Amsterdam in June. Our initial itinerary was tight...one call to Tauck and the flight was changed giving us around two hours! Much more comfortable! It was no problem at all, one of the beautiful things about dealing with Tauck!

wambli

Absolutely get yourself changed to at least two hours between flights. Atlanta is a big airport and everything everyone else said is true. The connection of about an hour is way too tight.