Two more cautions from a Million Miler. Four more things can happen with connections. 1) You schedule a shop to be done during a comfortable 3-hour layover. What could go wrong? Nothing, until your first flight is delayed by 2-1/2 hours. 2) You schedule a shop to be done at O'Hare while flying from Philadelphia to San Francisco on United. Problem 2a >> Your United flight is canceled and they rebook you on American through Charlotte. Problem 2b >> Your United flight to Chicago is delayed or canceled, so they very nicely rebook you through Houston. Problem 2c >> Your evening flight is delayed by only two hours and you will make your connecting flight because you had scheduled a 4-hour layover (yeah!), but when you get to O'Hare, the store you were supposed to shop has closed.
I have had all of those (and more) happen to me, and sometimes I am doing shops. The good news is that the schedulers know that "stuff happens" when people are flying. the key is to communicate, COMMUNICATE, then communicate some more. Let the scheduler know what is happening.
Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008