Michi wrote:I see a lot of people booking themselves on CLE-EWR-International flights with less than an hour connect time, which never works out unless it's blue skies in both CLE and EWR.

This is one qualm I have with Continental--either you have a layover of less than an hour or you have to stay the night.  All the flights I look at seem to have an early morning departure from one of the major hubs (EWR or IAH) with a slim-to-none chance of making it there that morning from here.  Returning is the same way--I can rarely find anything with an adequate layover to clear customs without having to stay overnight!  What's wrong with an afternoon or evening departure so folks can get to the major hub from their local airport?

It's mostly when we travel to Central America via IAH.  The flights for our destination (SAP or TEG--whichever's cheaper) leave IAH sometime in the 9:00 AM hour and it's tough to get a flight CLE to IAH early enough to catch that flight, so we're often left with catching an evening flight the day before and staying overnight in Houston.

nconrad wrote:It's mostly when we travel to Central America via IAH.  The flights for our destination (SAP or TEG--whichever's cheaper) leave IAH sometime in the 9:00 AM hour and it's tough to get a flight CLE to IAH early enough to catch that flight, so we're often left with catching an evening flight the day before and staying overnight in Houston.

Yeah, I guess a one hour connection is tight, although that early in the morning shouldn't have too many problems making it.  I suppose not every connection is possible to make everyone happy.