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Old 3 Nov 19, 01:46 PM  
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Lay over advice please

We have booked to go to Florida next year but it has a layover in Boston for 1 hrs 36 mins, has anyone done this flight or done something similar that can advise if the layover will be long enough to clear immigration.
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Old 3 Nov 19, 02:37 PM  
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Personally, a layover for me would be 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Any delay leaving the UK with a short layover and you might miss your flight. Never had a Boston Layover so couldn't comment if your layover time is sufficient.
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I would not have a layover that short, it would need to be three hours minimum for me.
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2 1/2 to 3 hours for me.
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Not long enough. Maybe if the layover was on the way back, 1h30 would be enough. But not on the outbound where you have to do immigration, collect bags, re check them in, and then go through security again. Absolute minimum 2 hours.

However as long as the two flights are on one ticket, then if your transatlantic flight is delayed meaning you miss the domestic flight, then they have a responsibility to get you onwards to Orlando. Though that may mean a long wait/ on standby as the other flights might be completely booked.
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Check when the next few flights to Orlando are. If there are quite a few that same day then I’d be happy that I could get moved onto a new flight if needed.
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Even if you somehow managed to make your onwards flight on that short a connection, there’s a good chance that your luggage won’t.

I’d advise having your necessities & change of clothing in your hand luggage just in case.

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We flew in to Boston in July of this year. With exit row seats next to the air bridge connection point (1st, 3rd 10th and 11th off), we were through immigration and outside at the taxi rank in less than half and hour from the door opening. The issues are.

Positives
1. We were in the 1st dozen of 250 plus pax (good)
2. It is electronic passport presentation (good).
3. They already had our fingerprints and the electronic booth is merely a check (good).
4. We were hand baggage only (very good).

Possible negatives.
1. Whoever was at the back of the plane would have had to join a queue of 250 plus for the passport booths (Bad).
2. The baggage reclaim hadn’t even started turning when we breezed past it (Bad if you have to reclaim and then do customs in a queue).
3. There may be an International flight come in just before you that might not have cleared customs before you enter the hall (Bad).

I simply would not chance your layover. There is a good chance that it will go fine and Boston was certainly efficient.. but also a relatively high risk of missing the connection. I would stick to time honoured DIBB advice and seek 3 hours.

What if there is a delay clearing you gate in the UK?
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We did a layover at JFK with 1h45 and it was a rush - I would suggest aiming for 2h30 to make it much less stressful!
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Not a fair comparison but we have gone via Boston once but out of Shannon so preclearance and it was fine from memory there was a bus to move us from one terminal to another
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