Chicago Airport - stopover?

Hi

I am planning our trip for this summer and it is much cheaper for us to fly to Denver via Chicago.

We are intending to make the most of this opportunity and stop over in Chicago on the way out for a few days - more questions on this later! However, on the way back we are planning on just changing planes at Chicago.

One of the flight options gives us just 50 mins stopover - obviously this makes the total journey time home good, but I wonder if it is possible to do whatever has to be done in this time.By the way we are flying American Airlines and returning to London - so I guess there would be a change of terminal ?

Any ideas on whether this is possible ??

Thanks

Chicago Airport - stopover?

American%26#39;s departures to overseas destinations go through their domestic terminal, Terminal 3. You shouldn%26#39;t have to change terminals. FIfty minutes sounds doable, but check the on-time percentages for the flights. (One way is to check the daily report on the flight number via the AA website.) O%26#39;Hare is not known for its punctuality.

Chicago Airport - stopover?

I was just on an LA to Chicago flight, don%26#39;t even remember why the flight was delayed, but there were at least 10 passengers around me that had tight connections, several of which had about 15 minutes to make their flights at that point and had to wait for the people to get their overhead luggage, pack up the kids, etc.

I also believe that you probably wouldn%26#39;t have to change terminals as international flights tend to go from the airlines terminal not the international terminal so it is possible but do you really want to take the risk? If it was a continuing flight to NYC maybe, miss a flight, get on the next one. But a continuing flight to London? There aren%26#39;t as many of those. Just my 2 cents as someone who missed a flight last year and spent a night in Guadalajara Spain with no clean underwear...

American, United, and Lufthansa (United partner) depart their international flights from their domestic terminals, using International (T5) only for arrivals. Most foreign-flag carriers (e.g., KLM, JAL, KAL, Lot, Aer Lingus) depart and arrive at T5.

If your incoming flight is on time you%26#39;d be OK with the 50 minute layover; you will be in and out of T3 if you%26#39;re in and out on American. Your luggage should be checked through to London. Same story if you were on United (but then it would be T1).