i just booked tampa to stt at the end of April . There were two flights that I would have rather had but only had the 45 min layover . . . they also had a flight with a 2.5 hour layover I chose that and now I am glad I did after reading this. Ridiculous to even offer this flight one thing goes wrong and it's over. For gosh sake it takes about 30 minutes just to get off a plan nowadays.