Budget Travel - Connecting in STD Ryanair to Ryanair. Is 2 hours enough?

I have booked PUF to STN arriving 10:30 and then STN POZ departing at 12:30.

I thought that would be plenty of time until I read in the fine print that Ryanair is a point to point airline that does not transfer bags even for onward travel with Ryanair itself.

I'm assuming now that I will have to retrieve my bag and then recheck it in STD.

Would you normally consider two hours to be enough to handle this in STD?
Is there a special counter for this kind of rechecking within the baggage delivery area or would I have to leave the baggage area and hope to make it to the normal check-in area in time?

Thanks,

S

Pardon the typo...

The title should read:

Connecting in STN Ryanair to Ryanair. Is 2 hours enough?

I would say your chances of making the connection with checked baggage are probably no more than 50:50.

There are no special counters for "transfer" passengers (in quotes, seeing Ryanair doesn't do transfers). You have to go through Immigration, collect your bag, queue up to check it again and go back in through security. If your inbound flight is on time and if there are no delays at the carousel you can probably make it, but there is absolutely no leeway in the connection you have booked.

Ryanair's on-time record is generally pretty good, but you will often have a long wait for baggage.

Good luck!

You don't have 2 hours - you have 1h20m as that's when check-in / bag drop (depending on date of flight) closes and if you aren't checked in in time you don't fly

If you can check-in online and have ONE piece of hand luggage only then it's enough time

Geez! I read STD and was pretty sure it meant Stanstead and when I was about to reply, I realized "STN" was Stanstead so I erased everything.

Then looked down, I read the OP meant to put in "STN" not "STD."

Now I am typing it all over again! THANKS ALOT!

:)

Anyways, STN has ridiculously long lines at times. Check-in was about 30 minutes and immigration was another 30 minutes. Yep, I'd place it at 50:50.

I would suggest you add more time! From the Ryanair terminal to the immigration control point is a good 10 mins walking if there's no crush of incoming passengers and queues at the control point. Waiting in line time is variable depending on the number of officers working the passport checks, and then you may have to wait for your luggage - another variable of how things are going on the day. Out through Customs and then the width of the terminal to walk before checking in (often the queues are long too) and queues to go through outgoing security, plus at least 15 mins walk to the terminal again ... especially if they don't change your gate when you get there! DEFINITELY leave more time - I'd suggest 3 hrs min connecting interval but then I always was a slow runner and a pessimist to boot!

Geez! I read STD and was pretty sure it meant Stanstead and when I was about to reply, I realized "STN" was Stanstead so I erased everything.

STD = Santo Domingo, VE

Didn't think Ryanair flies to Venezuela ;)

EmailKid

Second rule of pedantry, be correct in your corrections.

Stansted, not Stanstead ;)

DEFINITELY leave more time - I'd suggest 3 hrs min connecting interval but then I always was a slow runner and a pessimist to boot!
The OP has apparently already booked the flights, so leaving more time is no longer an option. The only suggestion I can make at this stage is to try if at all possible not to check any bags (note that Ryanair's hand luggage policies are inconsistently enforced, though enforcement has increased lately). It could then be possible to check in online, and so two major delays would be eliminated from the connection.

As I said earlier, I would estimate the OP's chances of making it at about 50:50. Of course if he misses it, and has to buy a seat on an alternative flight, then that last-minute booking is likely to work out quite expensive.

I think the OP should consider buying a ticket for a later flight now when he may still be able to get a cheap deal. That way he has an alternative if he misses his connection.

ADDITIONAL QUESTION:

Are there dedicated check-in counters for each flight at STN so I would at least have the hope of being the last in a line which they have to process before they close the counter and the flight?

Thanks,

S OP of the this thread

Unless things have changed - No