I love your optimism that the next flight will wait and the pilot knows. Planes have a time slot to take off in and they are obliged to make it. Plus you are hoping that the baggage handlers will get your baggage off one plane and onto another in that time slot. They have hundreds of bags to move and yours could be the last one off. When you are sold a connecting flight ticket double check that the time between flights is doable. I was just "debating" with an agent that although his computer said there was a connecting fight out of Vienna I didn't think I could get off a plane, find another gate and board a plane in 25 mins!!!!

Thanks guys