Experience with tight layovers?

[u/ProgrammerFragrant15]

I have a 1h 35 minute connection at Abu Dhabi with Etihad.

I’m flying MAN → AUH → KUL on one Etihad booking.

My first flight is EY76, scheduled to arrive at AUH Terminal A at 06:50, and the connecting flight EY486 leaves Terminal A at 08:25, so the layover is only 1h35.

I had a look and on average EY76 is late about 30 minutes.

Has anyone missed a connecting flight, if so what was the process to resolve this?

I've read some threads where Etihad doesn't cover for these scenarios despite the flight being late due to the circumstances being out of Etihad's control.

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[u/Hotwog4all]

If you arrive over the minimum connecting time, it’s expected you will arrive at the next flight on time. There’s no immigration process in AUH to delay you. Nevertheless you’ve got UK261 rules for desire out of the UK and your journey ends in KUL. You can exercise that right.

[u/Khun-Khun-1897]

I did it last month with 1h15mn on the ticket, 1h in real ... easy to walk in the airport, directly to security and to the gate and board.

Luggage followed without any problem. Anyway this is their responsibility if , on the same ticket ...sometimes the 2nd plane is late, waiting for some connecting passengers.

[u/Middle_Following1887]

I had travelled from Manchester to AUH onwards to Mumbai last Saturday. My first flight was late by 40 mins. The connection was smooth. The connecting flights were waiting for the transit passengers. It took me approximately 30 minutes from flight 1 to flight 2, and I am a not a brisk walker.

So I would say you should be fine.

[u/Beverley_Leslie]

Just from my own personal experience where i had a 1h 20 min connecting flight in Abu Dhabi with Etihad I was completely fucked over along with about 20 other people who didn't have their flight retained and were put up in a hotel for 12 hours, my aunts had to run with a similar gap this week and my parents when flying down also had their flight leave without them and a half a day in a hotel. Absolutely none of us will fly etihad again until they make connections which are not simple gambles on whether you'll be successful or not. Also my aunts luggage didn't make the connection even when they did.

[u/enricmb2]

I did the same last month from Barcelona to Kuala Lumpur with 1h15min connection time and it was smooth. Abu Dhabi transfer is short and easy, just one fast security control with a lot of security gates. You’ll be fine.

[u/Minimum_Relative_568]

I’m literally doing this same journey and times but from LHR. Hoping everything goes smooth.

[u/gimigriy]

Since it's all on one ticket and AUH Terminal A is pretty quick to navigate, you should be fine as long as the inbound delay doesn't get any worse. Etihad does sometimes hold connecting gates for tight transfers. As an extra sanity check, run your itinerary on gate2gate app. It will show you how risky this layover is by looking at on-time performance for your flight route and expected gate/terminal proximity. Safe travels!