In plain English
This means a traveller’s next flight leaves before they can get to it. It applies to a planned air trip with a connection, when the earlier flight arrives late or the time between the two flights is too short.
In context
Here, “missed connection” reports that the onward flight in the planned air journey was not caught because the previous flight arrived too late or the connection time was too short.
- Situation
- Checking in, passing airport steps, boarding, connections, and flight status
- What it communicates
- reports failed onward-connection status
Meaning limits
This term covers only the failure to catch a planned connecting flight, not every kind of disruption during air travel.
Examples
“When her first flight landed ninety minutes late, she had a missed connection in Chicago.”
“On the return trip, only twenty minutes separated the two flights, and there was a missed connection in Dubai.”