I know I have seen a website where you can enter a flight and it will tell you how often it is on time or delayed.

I realized that my just booked frequent flyer ticket to Rome has a layover of only one hour and 13 minutes in Atlanta. I am afraid it could be a problem since on the eticket it says the flight from Atlanta to Rome is closed at 60 minutes before the flight time.

I don't mind a little uncertainty, but I am afraid that my husband will never fly with me again if we miss that flight! He has a very low tolerance for flight problems.

The only alternative is leave home at 7 am and have an almost 6 hour layover. There are so many fewer flights that it is really getting hard to book a reasonable and stress free flight schedule! It takes some of the fun out of planning a trip!

Good grief Sally, I would be worried too. Have you called the airlines to discuss this with them? Why don't you do that and than post back.

I'd go for the six-hour layover. For one thing, it probably won't really be six hours, if there are any delays. If you do opt for the short connection, is it possible to get placed on a flight later that day, or would you for sure have to get a flight the next day and miss a day of your vacation. If that's the case, I'd go for the long layover.

Hi Sally. Sorry, I am sure there is an on time record you can look up, but I do not know where.
If you booked from your hometown, through Atlanta and on to Italy on the same airline, I don't think the 60 minute cut off would apply to you.
Your luggage would have been checked through from point of origin. You would have to just get from one gate to the other.
Having said that, I also would vote for the longer layover.
When we flew last year from PIT-PHL-FCO, I allowed for an early arrival in Philadelphia with three departure flights from Pittsburgh to get us to Philadelphia for the flight to Rome. Bad weather, and we missed the flight.
Of course, they rerouted us. And they lost our luggage.
The MARTA in Atlanta is one of the easiest to use. You can get to downtown in about 20 minutes. You might even be able to tour CNN which takes about 45 minutes.
Have a great trip.

Sally - Have you ever flown into Atlanta before? There is no way you will be able to make an international flight with only a 13 minute layover. You probably won't be in the right concourse and I have been on flights where it takes me nearly 13 minutes just to get off of the plane after it has landed. Even if you are in the correct concourse it would be difficult to make this connection. I would opt for the longer layover. Best Wishes Jackie

Go for the longer layover--and especially for the Atlanta spread out airport. That is an unacceptably short connection time.

I've seen this before, also, and I don't use that many web sites for airline fare, so I think it's one of the major ones. I know Expedia has it has I just checked.

If you ask for fare checking, this info shows up for a segment after you click on "select". It's not that noticeable, not in bold, but underneath the flight segment info. I think it's only there for domestic flights as it gets the info from some database that I think only requires info for US domestic flights. Sometimes it's missing for some US flights, also, but is usually there.