Zurich Airport: Connecting
If you have to make a connection and you don’t have a cascade of hours between flights, where you connect can make all the difference – down to minutes when minutes count. Which are the best and worst airports for making connecting flights and why? A start-up company called Mo’Zippity Apps, may have the answers – locked inside a handy mobile app called Connect On Time that provides specific gate-to-gate connect times for many of the world’s top destination airports. The company took their research and rated the connectivity of many national and international airports based on the number of barriers and amount of time needed at each airport to get between its furthest gates once security and passport control lines have been cleared.
The best airports for making connections have better than 70 percent on-time departure and arrival records, logical layouts, efficient security and passport control checkpoints, connected airsides, and gates that are no more than a half an hour apart. Meanwhile, the Worst airports proved to be the polar opposite of the Best. Beijing Capital tops the list with a dismal 30 percent on-time record and stressed-out passengers constantly struggling to reach their connecting gates on time.
10 Best Airports to Make a Connecting Flight
1. Zurich Airport (ZRH): 10 minutes
2. Salt Lake City International (SLC): 11 minutes
3. Tampa International (TPA): 12 minutes
4. Orlando International (MCO): 15 minutes
5. Charlotte Douglas International (CLT): 16 minutes
6. Denver International (DEN): 18 minutes
7. London Stansted (STN): 19 minutes
8. Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL): 20 minutes
9. Dubai International (DXB): 21 minutes
10. Hong Kong International (HKG): 22 minutes
Beijing Capital International: Not connecting
10 Worst Airports to Make a Connecting Flight
1. Beijing Capital International (PEK): 1 hr., 27 minutes
2. London Heathrow (LHR): 1 hr., 25 minutes
3. Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG): 1 hr., 23 minutes
4. Shanghai Pudong International (PVG): 1 hr., 18 minutes
5. Los Angeles International (LAX): 1 hr.,10 minutes
6. Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD): 1 hr., 9 minutes
7. Tokyo Narita International (NRT): 1 hr., 3 minutes
8. Boston Logan International (BOS): 1 hr., 2 minutes
9. Frankfurt International (FRA): 1 hr., 1 minute
10. Chicago O’Hare International (ORD): 59 minutes
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