CDG 1:30 PM
ARRIVE 3:25 PM BOS
DEPART BOS 4:55 PM
ARRIVE LAX 8:05 PM

Please note connection time
Terminal change

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What month?

What airline(s)?

Two tickets separately purchased or codeshare?

How much luggage will you have?
Can you check it through?

The international terminal at BOS is at the end of one bus line that serves 3 terminals and the subway. A second line serves the other 3 terminals and subway. Another line does stop at all terminals but seems quite infrequent (your mileage may vary)

<<< Can you check it through? >>>

This is America - only wimpy Commie countries allow checking through of luggage.

One other question for OP - what's your nationality?

&quot;<i>Can you check it through?</i>&quot; Even IF they can check it through won't matter much since they will have to retrieve the luggage and go through customs since Logan is their first point of landing in the States.

But we do need the rest of the info what passport? Which airline? one ticket ot two . . . . .

I think there is enough information to say, yes, this is pretty risky. We flew this route, ok, several years ago, but I think that with even stricter security restrictions, you hardly have enough time to land, collect luggage and transport yourself and luggage to another terminal, via bus. That's less than 90 minutes, and even without a terminal change, is not a lot of time.

Sorry, I just copied and pasted from the website. These are AA ff tickets, 2 people, traveling with one carry-on each, so no checked luggage. Travel is next August. One American and one Mexican passport.

I also should have mentioned, that my daughter and I are flying Air France the same day on different ff tickets (through CO). We're trying to match up times to arrive in LA as closely as possible. We arrive at 6:30 (non-stop). Many of the AA flights don't arrive until 10 p.m. or after.

With a FF award in summer travel season, I can imagine your choices are a bit limited.

But that is your last BOS-LAX non-stop of the day, so if you miss it, you'd probably get rebooked on a flight with a connection through either Chicago or Dallas. 1.5 hours is tight, especially with one of you in each line for immigration. But without a checked bag to pickup and recheck, I'd probably risk it myself, if AA is offering it as an option.

so how much time should be allowed?

sorry to butt in here, but here's our situation:

we leave mid January on Continental Airlines from NY arriving in Rome (FCO) 7:50 am. we are hoping to catch another plane at FCO on Alitalia at 9:45 am to Venice.

-checked luggage
-both american passports
-Continental tickets already purchased, and Alitalia tickets will be purchased shortly, (depends).

A little less than two hours to catch another flight. Is this too risky?

Thanks in advance for any help or insight.

I'd book it with a 1.5 hour connection time. But I'm not quite clear on what the downside of that would be or what you'd do instead. If you didn't make it, you'd get on a later flight with connections versus booking that later flight with connections yourself? Are you going home, because if so, some things don't matter so much as at the start of a vacation.

It wouldn't be the end of the world if the flight from Boston was missed. We are coming home,and there is another flight BOS-LAX at 6:50 arriving LA at 10:00. What wouldn't be fun is for my daughter and I, who are arriving in LA at 6:20, to have to hang around until 10.

This is going to be mid-August. Are the chances VERY GOOD that if the 1st flight out of Boston was missed, that AA would get my husband and daughter on another flight that evening? The travel from Paris to LA is going to be tiring enough.

SUMMAGOLD,
you may be better off reposting with your own question.

Under the circumstances you state.
since you have separate tickets - if you miss your Alitalia flight you are SOL. You will need to checkin with Alitalia in Rome once you arrive to get a boarding pass, which means you need to be at their checkin by their cutoff. Your bags may be checked through, saving you the wait and hassle, but then again they may not, since you will have separate tickets.

This summer it took me ~1hr to get through immigration in Rome, then another 30min wait for the bags to emerge.

I'd book a later flight.

I'd book the ticket... let them deal with it if you miss the connection. Boston customs usually isn't horrible and that's not typically the most busy time of day.

One thing to check is when the next BOS-LAX flight is just so you have an idea of what your options are for later flights (assuming they don't move you to another airline).

just remember that luggage getting from the plane to the carousel is slower than camel turds rolling uphill on a winter day especially the international terminal(E) count on 45 minutes to 1 hour

Switching from AA international to AA domestic at BOS is a major pain. You wait (and wait... and wait...) for your bags to come into the arrivals carousels, then you go through customs, then upstairs to the re-check counter (where you may have to wait) then outside to the terminal shuttle bus, then into the security screening etc. for the domestic flight...

Last time we had two hours and got seriously scolded for making the domestic plane wait - we were the last two pax and if we both hadn't been Executive Platinum (top tier FFers) with AA they would have turned our first class seats into pumpkins and we would have waited around till the oh-dark-thirty flight.

If AA puts these flights on one ticket, FF award or otherwise, you are indeed &quot;protected&quot; against a misconnect and presumably they'd put you on the 6:50 departure that arrives after 10 (on a good day) at LAX. Long day, but you'd survive.

imo 1-1/2 hours is not sufficient time to clear customs in Boston and get your next flight. certainly it's possible, but that's sure nothing i'd plan for myself.

Hi,

I think you can make this connection since you have carry on luggage. Going through customs for US citizens in Boston is easy. I do not know about Mexican citizens. Also you will be first in line with just carry ons. Also the international arrival terminal is not far from AA terminal and you can walk the distance, no need to wait for a bus. Good luck!

A couple of points here.

3:25 pm (1525) is not generally a busy time at Logan, so you ought to clear customs and immigration fairly quickly, though traveling on passports from two different countries will not make it more certain.

You do not have to take checked baggage to your connecting flight ON THE SAME TICKET. You do have to collect it and take it through customs, but you can recheck it in Terminal E at the transfer desk outside the secure area.

International arrivals are in E, AA departures are in B. It may not be a long walk for yipper, but it may very well be a long walk for many other people -- 15 minutes minimum. You can do it all under cover since the terminals are linked indoors, but it is a hike.

Your major concern in August is thunderstorms in Boston requiring you to be diverted to any one of a number of places (Bangor perhaps most likely) but if the whole ticket is AA all the way and all you have is carryon, I would probably risk it. AA will get you home if there is room on the later flight and you can get there in time.

Do you have to go through Boston? There may be better options (Dallas or Chicago)