Terminal 3 at Chicago O'Hare-how far from L gates to K gates?

Yes, it is a hike and crowded but you can make it in less. It is an extreme hike if you come in at L10 or so and leave from K16.

Do not obsess about it though. If you are both coming in and going out on AA, they will make sure they get you there. If they know you are delayed by weather, they may already have made arrangements for you before you land. If you wish, particularly if you are not in the first bloom of youth, ask the AA person when you get off if you can take one of the electric carts.

I would not, however, stop to buy a magazine, use the toilet, grab a bite to eat, though, until I was checked in at the departure gate, though.

Yesterday, I walked from gate L8 to gate G20 (passing K along the way) in under 15 minutes.

Thank you - both these make me feel better. Your "yesterday" report, abram, was a big boost. Ackislander - I promise - no stopping along the way. I will only feel good once I'm at that departing gate. I know AA will get us to London one way or the other, but afraid getting us there might cost me a day of my already far too short trip. I don't think they have another flight out that night. Would they ever put us on another airline to get us there somewhat close to when we were supposed to be? Unfortunately, after I purchased the unrefundable tickets I read all kinds of bad reviews of American Airline service. That has contributed to my fear.

Alas, my sister and I are not in that first bloom of youth (shucks!) but still good on our feet. We can move through the mall together with no problem. We'll do the same at the airport.

By the way Akislander, off subject, but I wanted to thank you for coming to my defense on the Venice thread for the way I said "how do you say" in Italian or Spanish or whatever version of some romance language I said it in. I did not consult my phrase book before I wrote that - just reeled it off the top of my head. I had no idea anyone would get so caught up in linguistic correctness they would entirely miss the point of what I was suggesting, until I read your thread that is. I felt not quite so stupid after that and you understood why I made the suggestion - very kind of you.

You are quite welcome. I got over crippling language perfection when I lived in a big tourist area in Boston.

I am the kind of person that people ask for directions, so I talked to a lot of foreign and American tourists. I didn't care about their grammar, their tenses, their pronunciation, only that I could understand where they wanted to go and that they could understand my answer in English or fractured Spanish or French or Italian. Sometimes it was pointing to places on the map and indicating the number of blocks with fingers.

The toughest was helping two German ladies get to the street from the subway in a railroad station without myself having to leave and thus have to pay another fare. I am nice, but not that nice. I had some highly specialized and entirely useless German in grad school, but I did know the numbers for the number of stairs they would have to take, that street is "strasse", and that we were in the U-bahn. I think they got there.

It is about communication, isn't it?