Originally Posted by
howahya
How much running and terror will there be for a 42 minute connection in Atlanta arriving from Phoenix and heading for a Delta/KLM gate heading to Amsterdam?
If the PHX-ATL flight is on-time, the connection is certainly doable, but it could be a hike as the AMS flight will likely go out of F and the PHX flight could come in just about anywhere including A or T, which are numerous train stops away. I would personally want a longer layover just to not feel rushed.
Originally Posted by
howahya
Also is 1:35 enough time in Amsterdam? She'll be connecting to another KLM flight that goes to JRO in Tanzania. She shouldn't have to go through customs, but I'm wondering how close the gates are. A different option has her going through JFK with with time enough there and in AMS but it adds 2+ hours to the whole itinerary.
This will be more than enough time. AMS is a large airport but it's separated into a Schengen zone (for Schengen area flights) and a non-Schengen zone. Since your daughter will be coming from a non-Schengen country (USA) and continuing on to a non-Schengen country (Tanzania), there will be no need to transfer between zones, no immigration, and, as you noted, no customs. It will simply be a walk from one non-Schengen gate to another which should take no more than probably 20 minutes as a worst case scenario (and perhaps quite a bit less).