How to Change Planes for a Connecting Flight?

Answer 1

You're going from A to C, but the plane stops at B, and you have to get on another plane to continue your journey. Here's what to do.
Steps

1. During the flight, check the magazines in the seat pocket. Often times, those will have maps of the airports that the airline serves. Use those maps to determine where your arriving and departing gates are located, and what path you must take to get from one to the other.
2. Determine how much time you have to make it onto the connecting flight.
3. Listen closely to the announcements going on as the plane you're on is taxiing to the gate. If there have been any gate changes for your connecting flight, you'll hear them now, so long as the people around you haven't started up all their loud cell phone conversations.
4. Collect all your carry-on items and take them off the plane with you. Baggage handlers will take care of transferring your checked bags from one plane to another; you do not need to visit baggage claim.
5. Make sure that the boarding pass for your connecting flight is on your person.
6. After you leave the airplane, you can always ask a gate agent to look up your flight, many times gate agents are standing just outside the exit door as you enter the airport. If no gate agent is present, check the monitors for gate information.
7. If it looks like a lot of the other people leaving the plane are hurrying off in the same direction, and that direction is not baggage claim, they're probably trying to get on the same connecting flight you are. Follow them.
8. If there is an unreasonably short period of time between your connecting flights, go directly to a ticketing counter to get on standby - before all the other people who missed the connection get on the same list.
9. If you don't have much time to get to the connecting flight, run.
10. If you've got plenty of time to kill, lolly-gag around, get something to eat, use a restroom that isn't 18" square. Another thing you could do is to go to the ticketing counter and see if any flights that are going to your destination leave earlier than your flight; if there are, see if you can be placed on a standby list for one of those flights.


Tips

* If the connecting flight leaves before your flight deplanes, demand a concession from the airline. They'll give you a ticket voucher for some amount, or bump you to first class if you're lucky. If it's late at night and the next flight doesn't leave for a while, ask for a hotel room and leave in the morning.


Warnings

* Running in airports may be frowned upon by security personnel.
* Don't try to skitch on one of those big golf carts they drive old people through the concourse in.

Answer 2

You get off the aircraft after your first leg, look for the transit desk, check-in for the second leg (if you are not through-checked), get your boarding pass, go to the departure hall (most airports, departure & arrival passengers won't meet for security purposes) look for the boarding gate and wait for boarding. Easier still, most airlines have ground staff to meet every arriving flights, ask them to show you the way.

Answer 3

Get Down, check-in and get in