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Aug 8, 2017 | 9:40 am

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Originally Posted by CoHiba Gent

We changed itineraries and snagged a more direct route: (AA) PHL - ATH and (A3) ATH - JTR.

We have no checked baggage - only carry on.

In this case I presume we would need to clear immigration -- or not? The flight arrives around 9:10am and the departure on A3 is 10:55am.

I'd say doable but tight. An hour delay would leave you with 45 minutes to pass immigration and run over to the schengen gates and board.

Note that the AA PHL-ATH is on time 69% of the time with a 46 minute average delay. Based on averages this would leave you an hour.

The advice would be to OLCI the A3 flight and have your boarding pass available (printed or phone) to avoid any loss of time. Of course if your AA flight goes tech or is delayed by more than an hour you will most likely be out of luck.

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