Iberia to Iberia, Madrid airport transfer question
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Iberia to Iberia, Madrid airport transfer question
Using AA FF miles we are booked on Iberia LAX-MAD, MAD-MXP in September. The connection time is 1:20, legal & doable they say, but I have concerns. Any thoughts or suggestions, or even what to expect, would be much appreciated.
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You can do it, as long as your plane arrives on time, but you have to hustle. Prepare for a long walk and a shuttle.
There are a number of threads here that discuss this issue..including your own:
http://www.fodors.com/community/air-...n-179422-2.cfm
http://www.fodors.com/community/air-...r-5minutes.cfm
http://www.fodors.com/community/euro...e-re-think.cfm
one person suggested that you could get on the EU line for passports if the non-EU queue is very long and you are running very late. It is a very good, well-signed airport.
There are a number of threads here that discuss this issue..including your own:
http://www.fodors.com/community/air-...n-179422-2.cfm
http://www.fodors.com/community/air-...r-5minutes.cfm
http://www.fodors.com/community/euro...e-re-think.cfm
one person suggested that you could get on the EU line for passports if the non-EU queue is very long and you are running very late. It is a very good, well-signed airport.
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There was no separate lines for EU and non-EU passports early last month at Madrid-Barajas, which was strange. Also, there were no customs forms to fill out flying in from the States, really strange after all these years.
1hr 20mins, and flying on one ticket (with boarding pass in hand), is a little tight, even if flying into and out of the same terminal (T4S). You'll have to clear customs and passport control, which means you'll have to go back through security to reenter T4 and find your gate for your connecting flight.
1hr 20mins, and flying on one ticket (with boarding pass in hand), is a little tight, even if flying into and out of the same terminal (T4S). You'll have to clear customs and passport control, which means you'll have to go back through security to reenter T4 and find your gate for your connecting flight.
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Just to say that we did this yesterday and it worked out fine. It helped that our flight from the US arrived an hour earlier. We did not have to take a shuttle to another terminal, perhaps Iberia has consolidated more flights in 4S. After passport control we were directed to follow signs to M, a lot of walking, totally empty area mid-day which seemed weird, an elevator to M (overhead signs indicating minutes to connections, M was 12 from arrival gate), then another security pass through to M 28; our flight to Mlan was the only gate open. Anyway, Madrid airport went well.
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