MCT / minimum connect time @ FCO / Rome Fiumicino
Sep 21, 2016, 1:45 am
#106
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Sep 25, 2016, 12:28 pm
#107
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Thoughts on a 2 hour 40 minutes connection for Vueling to Alitalia with the need to pick up and re-check bags (Vueling flight due to arrive at 5:30pm and AZ flight leaves at 8:10pm)?
No interline between Vueling and Alitalia so we'll have to actually pick the bags up. Will be coming from JTR and connecting to CDG at FCO on AZ so it's Schengen the whole way which I think eliminates the need to clear immigration / customs. Y on both flights and no ST status.
Never transited FCO in any capacity before so don't have much insight to it.
No interline between Vueling and Alitalia so we'll have to actually pick the bags up. Will be coming from JTR and connecting to CDG at FCO on AZ so it's Schengen the whole way which I think eliminates the need to clear immigration / customs. Y on both flights and no ST status.
Never transited FCO in any capacity before so don't have much insight to it.
Nov 22, 2016, 5:51 am
#109
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My flight was the first one to land today at FCO, at 5:50. We started deplaning at 5:55 the monitor at the luggage belt indicated that bags would start arriving at 6:22 (yes!), and the first batch appeared at 6:35. My two pieces with priority label appeared with the second batch at 6:50. Next to the next was a monitor with ads, one of which said that ADR had succeeded in making FCO the #1 hub in Europe. Just reminding people connecting that MCT is supposed to be 60 minutes. Well... 
Dec 10, 2016, 9:57 am
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Dec 21, 2016, 3:56 pm
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Next month I have a 1h25 min connection TLV-FCO-LHR. I guess it should be ok, however, it's the last LHR flight of the day. If the TLV is delayed and I miss the LHR flight, are AZ good at providing accomodation, or do I have to flight? It's an AF award ticket in Y, and I am AZ FAP.
Dec 21, 2016, 5:20 pm
#113
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Next month I have a 1h25 min connection TLV-FCO-LHR. I guess it should be ok, however, it's the last LHR flight of the day. If the TLV is delayed and I miss the LHR flight, are AZ good at providing accomodation, or do I have to flight? It's an AF award ticket in Y, and I am AZ FAP.
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Dec 22, 2016, 2:51 am
#114
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Plenty of time (in normal circumstances), chances are that your TLV flight will dock on to a gate within the brand new satellite (gates E), where your AZ210 back to London will depart from. In the event of a major delay, you'll get accommodation and a seat on the morning flight to LCY (or at least that was my experience on 3 occasions earlier this year!).
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Jan 31, 2017, 5:51 pm
#115
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Lax -> fco -> bcn
I have a 1 hr 50 min connection between Alitalia flights all under one booking. I will have a checked bag and possible carry-on and I have a US passport. Also as a side note, would it be possible to go from BCN to la Biblioteca Fort Pienc for a meeting? I have no idea as to what to expect upon landing or time estimates for airport business. I've researched that it's approx. 1 hr bus away from the airport.
1. LAX -> FCO
4:15 pm -> 1:10 pm land in Terminal 3
flight #621
2. FCO -> BCN
3 pm -> 4:50 pm
terminal 1 -> terminal 1
flight #76
----return trip------
3. BCN->FCO
6:25 am -> 8:10 am
terminal 1 -> terminal 1
flight #75
4. FCO -> LAX
10:10 am -> 2:15 pm
Terminal 3 -> terminal B
flight #620
1. LAX -> FCO
4:15 pm -> 1:10 pm land in Terminal 3
flight #621
2. FCO -> BCN
3 pm -> 4:50 pm
terminal 1 -> terminal 1
flight #76
----return trip------
3. BCN->FCO
6:25 am -> 8:10 am
terminal 1 -> terminal 1
flight #75
4. FCO -> LAX
10:10 am -> 2:15 pm
Terminal 3 -> terminal B
flight #620
Jan 31, 2017, 6:01 pm
#116
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I have a 1 hr 50 min connection between Alitalia flights all under one booking. I will have a checked bag and possible carry-on and I have a US passport. Also as a side note, would it be possible to go from BCN to la Biblioteca Fort Pienc for a meeting? I have no idea as to what to expect upon landing or time estimates for airport business. I've researched that it's approx. 1 hr bus away from the airport.
1. LAX -> FCO
4:15 pm -> 1:10 pm land in Terminal 3
flight #621
2. FCO -> BCN
3 pm -> 4:50 pm
terminal 1 -> terminal 1
flight #76
----return trip------
3. BCN->FCO
6:25 am -> 8:10 am
terminal 1 -> terminal 1
flight #75
4. FCO -> LAX
10:10 am -> 2:15 pm
Terminal 3 -> terminal B
flight #620
1. LAX -> FCO
4:15 pm -> 1:10 pm land in Terminal 3
flight #621
2. FCO -> BCN
3 pm -> 4:50 pm
terminal 1 -> terminal 1
flight #76
----return trip------
3. BCN->FCO
6:25 am -> 8:10 am
terminal 1 -> terminal 1
flight #75
4. FCO -> LAX
10:10 am -> 2:15 pm
Terminal 3 -> terminal B
flight #620
Your connections in Rome -both on your way to Spain and back to LA- should be plain sailing (assuming no major delays, needless to say). With regards to the meeting once in Barcelona, I have no idea but other posters may be able to advise on that for you.
Again, welcome to FT.
G
Jan 31, 2017, 11:31 pm
#117
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Hi and welcome to FlyerTalk, summerstudy.
Your connections in Rome -both on your way to Spain and back to LA- should be plain sailing (assuming no major delays, needless to say). With regards to the meeting once in Barcelona, I have no idea but other posters may be able to advise on that for you.
Again, welcome to FT.
G
Your connections in Rome -both on your way to Spain and back to LA- should be plain sailing (assuming no major delays, needless to say). With regards to the meeting once in Barcelona, I have no idea but other posters may be able to advise on that for you.
Again, welcome to FT.
G
Feb 1, 2017, 3:03 pm
#118
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Thank you for the kind welcome! And the timely reply! I was worried over reading other forums saying that I was going to have to recheck my bag or that it will most surely get lost and not make it to me in BCN until days later.. if I do continue on Alitalia I won't have to recheck right? Sorry for so many questions, it will be my first time abroad alone!
Feb 1, 2017, 7:19 pm
#119
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Location: Heraklion, Greece
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Thank you for the kind welcome! And the timely reply! I was worried over reading other forums saying that I was going to have to recheck my bag or that it will most surely get lost and not make it to me in BCN until days later.. if I do continue on Alitalia I won't have to recheck right?
Sorry for so many questions, it will be my first time abroad alone!
Feb 6, 2017, 9:53 pm
#120
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Based on what I've read here, and my own knowledge of FCO, I've bitten the bullet and bought a ticket on Aegean to connect with a (non-refundable) ticket I already had on BA. The only other (sensible) option was to fly ATH-FCO on AZ and arrive 3 hours earlier.
Details are: arrive FCO from ATH at 10:10, and depart FCO for LHR at 11:45. I assume A3 arrives at T1 and I know BA departs T3 (a little walk will be involved).
I won't have any checked bags and am Star Gold and OneWorld Emerald, so I hope that will help too. I willl be travelling on a UK passport and intend to OLCI for the BA flight.
So, I'm hoping that this will be relatively trouble free, but who knows?
Details are: arrive FCO from ATH at 10:10, and depart FCO for LHR at 11:45. I assume A3 arrives at T1 and I know BA departs T3 (a little walk will be involved).
I won't have any checked bags and am Star Gold and OneWorld Emerald, so I hope that will help too. I willl be travelling on a UK passport and intend to OLCI for the BA flight.
So, I'm hoping that this will be relatively trouble free, but who knows?