Last year our AA JFK direct flight got cancelled and we had to change planes in Miami. Because we were travelling with a 90 year old I was not a happy camper. Up until this time we did not need a wheel chair but everyone told us to get one. Thank goodness we did. The walk (for me) to immigration was doable and didn’t take a lot of time but to get luggage the walk was long (including the shuttle train) and once we got that the luggage needed to be recheck to our final destination. Then we had to go thru the whole security line. Even the wheel chair didn’t put us into the front of the line. Once thru security we rushed to get to our JFK gate and made that with 5 minutes to spare. I believe we had an hour and 15 minutes so you can see how close this was – and we had an AA aide in charge of the wheelchair and knew where to go. The only good thing about all this was we didn’t have to go thru immigration in New York.