I recently got home from a 18 day excursion to Nepal.... 6 of them were spent going and coming. This was actually 1 day longer than I anticipated. I had bought my round trip tickets thru Qatar Airways. United Airways covers their flights in the USA. The connection time was only 53 minutes. I was a little skeptical, but the United agents assured me this was enought time. WRONG! The United flight took too long to take off and was late arriving into Washington. I was running as fast as possible thru the airport. I got to the Qatar gate 16 minutes before takeoff. Too late for an international flight. So I got stuck in Washington for 24 hours. Due to differing flight schedules with the next day's flights, I ended up losing about 32 hours
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