I managed to make my connecting flight and got home in time. So: more time in one airport; less time in another; and missing the flight was itself caused by extra time spent waiting on/for trains, so it all balances out.
(My baggage didn’t make the connecting flight, and it took longer to get that sorted out than it would have done to just pick it up, so this wasn’t quite costless. Also the airport time was spent with more talking-to-people and less relaxing than it would have done otherwise. And I minorly inconvenienced lots of other people while rushing for my connection. But really, the whole thing was a lot less of a hassle than I’d have expected.)
For what it’s worth, this is quite different from any of my experiences missing a flight, which for me have always resulted in at least a couple hours of additional delay, and on some occasions over six. For my sister, on two occasions it has resulted in delays over twelve hours.
Nearly all of these were due not to a deliberate attempt to arrive at the airport as late as I could get away with though (in general I do not try to do this unless the alternative is getting up unconscionably early, because of my experiences regarding the unpredictability of airplane schedules and the amount of delay that can result from missing one,) but because delays on flights I did make on time caused them to arrive after my transfer flights departed.
How much time did missing the flight cause you to spend in the airport?
Technically, negative half an hour.
I managed to make my connecting flight and got home in time. So: more time in one airport; less time in another; and missing the flight was itself caused by extra time spent waiting on/for trains, so it all balances out.
(My baggage didn’t make the connecting flight, and it took longer to get that sorted out than it would have done to just pick it up, so this wasn’t quite costless. Also the airport time was spent with more talking-to-people and less relaxing than it would have done otherwise. And I minorly inconvenienced lots of other people while rushing for my connection. But really, the whole thing was a lot less of a hassle than I’d have expected.)
For what it’s worth, this is quite different from any of my experiences missing a flight, which for me have always resulted in at least a couple hours of additional delay, and on some occasions over six. For my sister, on two occasions it has resulted in delays over twelve hours.
Nearly all of these were due not to a deliberate attempt to arrive at the airport as late as I could get away with though (in general I do not try to do this unless the alternative is getting up unconscionably early, because of my experiences regarding the unpredictability of airplane schedules and the amount of delay that can result from missing one,) but because delays on flights I did make on time caused them to arrive after my transfer flights departed.