I'm in the same boat, currently considering KRK-TXL-JFK on a Sunday where AB doesn't fly their usual early flight into TXL. So it would be 12:10 into TXL and then out to JFK at 13:00. I can't find any information on what gates would be used (this is many months out). Could anyone provide any insights particular to this routing that might make this feasible or infeasible? I understand that this is all Schengen, but I have never been to TXL and do see that there are multiple terminals - and there seems to be confusion in the discussion above. Are there security or other potential terminal change issues that might make this impractical?

My main issue here is that we're trying to maximize the length of our trip. The only way to get all the flying in on a Sunday is to take the routing stated above. The previous KRK-TXL AB flight before the 12:10 Sunday is around noon Saturday - so it would violate AA 24-hour international connection rules since we want to leave on the 1 PM to JFK on Sunday. So we'd either have to cut the trip shorter or buy that flight with Avios and overnight in Berlin. Thoughts?


Could you elaborate on this? If I have an AB J award (off of AA miles) and get misconnected, what do you think they will do? Are you suggesting BA? Would they likely preserve class of service? If there is a legitimate chance that they could do a decent reroute on BA, I wouldn't really be terribly concerned. Our final destination is DC - if they even put us on the direct into IAD that could be an upside.