Is 55 minutes layover between flights enough in Guam?

[Diver Dennis]

Yeah, we did a Guam tour and it was very interesting. Nice place.

 

[CA Diver]

I did this flight on March 15, without the Yap stopover. We made the connection without a problem. You will have to go through immigration, but not customs, that will occur in HNL. Be sure your luggage is booked all the way through to the final destination. Continental personnel even assisted passengers booked on the HNL flight that stops in Majuro to make their 30 minute layover.

Don't worry the odds of this happening again are extremely remote, but: The plane you will board in ROR probably originates in Manila. On April 3 the President of Palau (Tommy Remengesau Jr. ) refused to go through the supplementary security screening that is required in the Phillipines for US Flagged carriers. He delayed the flight for 2 hours, When the plane tried to leave without him it was recalled back to the terminal due to a "Bomb Threat" and took another 4 hours to clear. The President still refused to submit to the supplementary screening and the plane finally left for Palau 6 hours late. All this time passengers were waiting for the 2:30 am flight from Koror to Guam. Isn't Tommy R. a walking billboard for Palauan Tourism. He votes or Japanese Whaling and leaves tourists stranded in Koror for 6 hours because he does not want to be searched like everyone else on the plane.

Link to the story: CDNN :: Palau President 'Grounded' after Refusing to Comply with Aviation Law

Enjoy the diving in Palau. Saying Diving in Palau is great is redundant. If you have the chance I also enjoy Guam and stayed there for a week last month to dive and visit friends who live on the Island.

 

[CARHILL]

I live here and planes are heald for incomming flights all the time. Even for locals that are late getting to the airport. Everything here is on "Island Time" Just relax and don't be too uptight from living on the mainland.

Dale
Still on a little rock in the Pacific

 

[Boxcar Overkill]

I did this flight on March 15, without the Yap stopover. We made the connection without a problem. You will have to go through immigration, but not customs, that will occur in HNL. Be sure your luggage is booked all the way through to the final destination. Continental personnel even assisted passengers booked on the HNL flight that stops in Majuro to make their 30 minute layover.

Don't worry the odds of this happening again are extremely remote, but: The plane you will board in ROR probably originates in Manila. On April 3 the President of Palau (Tommy Remengesau Jr. ) refused to go through the supplementary security screening that is required in the Phillipines for US Flagged carriers. He delayed the flight for 2 hours, When the plane tried to leave without him it was recalled back to the terminal due to a "Bomb Threat" and took another 4 hours to clear. The President still refused to submit to the supplementary screening and the plane finally left for Palau 6 hours late. All this time passengers were waiting for the 2:30 am flight from Koror to Guam. Isn't Tommy R. a walking billboard for Palauan Tourism. He votes or Japanese Whaling and leaves tourists stranded in Koror for 6 hours because he does not want to be searched like everyone else on the plane.

Link to the story: CDNN :: Palau President 'Grounded' after Refusing to Comply with Aviation Law

Enjoy the diving in Palau. Saying Diving in Palau is great is redundant. If you have the chance I also enjoy Guam and stayed there for a week last month to dive and visit friends who live on the Island.

Some people may find it strange you suggest the President of Palau should follow U.S. law when he is flying between the Phillipines and Palau. Palau is supposed to be a sovereign nation, after all, and it's President was on an official state visit to the PI, not the U.S.

Maybe you're right though. Maybe the airlines shouldn't have exercised any discretion here, because the President of Palau just may be Al Queda. Just because the Government of the Phillipines and the Government of Palau thought he was safe, that's not an excuse for Continetal not to enforce U.S. law in the South Pacific.

Rote enforcement of U.S. security laws, without any exercise of judgment or discretion, even when entirely outside of the U.S, that's probably what the world needs more of right about now

 

[Cacia]

Yes, because they will usually hold the flight anyway. (or there is nobody on it, lol)