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Old Apr 2, 2012 | 1:40 am
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Originally Posted by Kent Wang
I'm looking at a 1h35m layover from an Air Berlin flight into JFK, transfer to AA to Austin. I see that both airlines are in Terminal 8. Is that enough time to clear immigration, pick up bags, and customs? I'm on US passport.

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That's cutting it very tight, likely too tight. Do a search for "JFK connections". There are myriad threads that list 1.5 hour waits going through customs and 1 hour waits for bags. There are also threads listing 15 mins through customs etc.
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