Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security
This, in combination with American airports being completely ignorant to the transit concept must cost American airline companies dozens, if not hundreds of millions a year in lost revenues.<p>Case in point: if I want to to fly from Zurich to Lima I have essentially two choices: I can connect either in Amsterdam, or in Madrid. Madrids legal connection time is 55 minutes max (on Iberia). In AMS on KLM it&#x27;s a maximum of 50 minutes.<p>Another option would be to fly via an US airport. For example Miami. Only that I would have to be crazy.<p>Start with the fact that I can&#x27;t check my luggage through to Lima. I must go through immigration in Miami, pick up my luggage, go through customs, re-check my luggage and then endure the security hassle.<p>Even if the US connection would save me a couple hundred $ I would have to be crazy to chose the hassle, the annoyance  and the risk of missing my connection.<p>And I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m alone with such thoughts.<p>Edited: Added actual legal connection times for AMS and MAD