A connecting flight is the second flight of a journey with a change. Miss the connecting flight, a tight connecting flight, book a connecting flight.
Booked as one ticket, the airline must get you onto the next one if you miss it through their delay. Booked separately, a missed connecting flight is entirely your own problem.
1nounconnecting flightThe second flight of a journey with a change.
“An hour's delay lost them the connecting flight in Amsterdam.”
connecting flight is a flight.
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