UK-EU transfer time through Schiphol

[minimoog]

As a UK passport holder transiting from the UK to an onward EU destination, what would folks think is the minimum comfortable transfer time between flights, allowing for immigration checks and hold baggage transfer?

Any stories, advice?

Cheers.

[GT03ROB]

Single ticket or 2 tickets….. will make a difference.

MCTs are about 50mins at Schipol I believe, these are doable on a single ticket.

Multiple tickets carry no protection so you should be allowing several hours.

[minimoog]

GT03ROB said:

Single ticket or 2 tickets….. will make a difference.

MCTs are about 50mins at Schipol I believe, these are doable on a single ticket.

Multiple tickets carry no protection so you should be allowing several hours.

MCT?

It's the same airline so i assume that means 1 ticket.

[beedj]

I did 50 mins a few weeks ago, should have been a hour but was 10 mins late arriving. Single ticket and hand baggage only, but it was tight. Separate tickets shouldn’t make difference to the transfer time if you’ve already checked in for both flights, but much less hassle if you end up missing connection

[GT03ROB]

minimoog said:

GT03ROB said:

Single ticket or 2 tickets….. will make a difference.

MCTs are about 50mins at Schipol I believe, these are doable on a single ticket.

Multiple tickets carry no protection so you should be allowing several hours.

MCT?

It's the same airline.

Minimum connection times. If you are buying a single ticket they will not sell you a ticket that is below the MCT. Single ticket is the important part not single airline. You can have single tickets across multiple airlines & multiple tickets on a single airline. Having a single ticket gives your connection protection if you miss the connection. Multiple tickets do not (in short you are stuffed if you miss the connection)

[GT03ROB]

beedj said:

I did 50 mins a few weeks ago, should have been a hour but was 10 mins late arriving. Single ticket and hand baggage only, but it was tight. Separate tickets shouldn’t make difference to the transfer time if you’ve already checked in for both flights, but much less hassle if you end up missing connection

seperate tickets make a difference if you have checked baggage. Most airlines will not thru check on seperate tickets,

I believe OP said he had checked baggage.

[beedj]

I had literally 2-3 mins to spare on my 50 mins, and only made it as I asked to move to front of immigration queue (which staff are happy to support if you have a short connection time) . Just how tight will depend how close your arrival/departure zones/gates are

I travel through schiphol regularly, my normal routes give me 70 mins which is always okay

[beedj]

GT03ROB said:

beedj said:

I did 50 mins a few weeks ago, should have been a hour but was 10 mins late arriving. Single ticket and hand baggage only, but it was tight. Separate tickets shouldn’t make difference to the transfer time if you’ve already checked in for both flights, but much less hassle if you end up missing connection

seperate tickets make a difference if you have checked baggage. Most airlines will not thru check on seperate tickets,

I believe OP said he had checked baggage.

Yes he did, but also said one ticket so should be okay with anything more than c.60 mins

[RizzoTheRat]

Schiphol used to be brilliant, but they've been suffering a lot of delays recently. A couple of weeks ago I had a 30 minute delay departing due to a lack of fuel tanker drivers, and over an hours delay coming back as one of Schiphols runways was closed so we had to delay takeoff until we had a landing slot. It then took me over half an hour to get through passports when on other occasions it's taken a couple of minutes.

So I'd leave more time at the moment than you usually would.

[GT03ROB]

beedj said:

GT03ROB said:

beedj said:

I did 50 mins a few weeks ago, should have been a hour but was 10 mins late arriving. Single ticket and hand baggage only, but it was tight. Separate tickets shouldn’t make difference to the transfer time if you’ve already checked in for both flights, but much less hassle if you end up missing connection

seperate tickets make a difference if you have checked baggage. Most airlines will not thru check on seperate tickets,

I believe OP said he had checked baggage.

Yes he did, but also said one ticket so should be okay with anything more than c.60 mins

He actually said 1 airline which is not the same as 1 ticket, hence why I asked him to confirm which it was.

[minimoog]

Thanks everyone, appreciated.

[minimoog]

RizzoTheRat said:

So I'd leave more time at the moment than you usually would.

That's what I've done, thanks.

3 hours to cool heels in CDG instead now. It was actually pretty comfy there last time I went through - big divans to lie around on etc.

[parabolica]

My dad, just an hour ago, managed to make his connection with only 30 minutes between landing & boarding (UK - AMS - OTP); but luckily for him arrival and departure were both from D gates, so no great distance to cover. I've had that connection too before and made it, and so did my luggage which I was very impressed with. But I prefer a connection of at least 1 hour if possible.

I've transited through AMS half-a-dozen times in the last year and the most recent trips have all been smooth sailing; the days of long queues and massive delays look to be behind us, touch wood.

Edited by parabolica on Friday 9th June 09:42