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LHR/MEL/Europe FF
1005-1135 on separate tickets is cutting it too fine - even if bags can be checked all the way through. Looking at the flight stats on flightaware it shows the 1005 flight arriving anywhere between 950am and 1010am, with one day arriving at 1028am. But that's the landing time, not including taxi, jet bridge connection and disembarkation. Include all of those and the stress for the connection might not be worth it.
Thanks, but you previously said 80min is generous even allowing for arrivals immigration, check-in, security and exit immigration. Now you indicate 90min is cutting it close even if the bag is checked all the way through? What made you change your advice on this? Even if I get off the plane at 10.45am, I would still make CX's 11.35am flight, no?
Also, to clarify, 10.05am arrival into HKG would be if I miss my 80min EVA connection at TPE and have to take the next flight which gets into HKG at 10.05am. Unless I miss my TPE connection, I'm scheduled to arrive in HKG at 8.45am. So part of the equation is how safe am I with that 80min transit at TPE. I know there's no absolute answer to this. But if you or anyone has extensive experience with both HKG and TPE, I'm wondering what you would do. If you think SIN at 2.10pm is the better way to go, then I'll definitely consider that.