So, just done my turn in Pisa and am sitting on aircraft.

Some commentary to help future consideration.

It is doable. IF you take a b2b at a quiet time and IF you get lucky.

Outbound (606) landed on time, docked at air bridge. First off the plane to discover a locked door ahead of me and everyone else. They have a single corridor for the bridge arrivals which is shared with tarmac departures and they cannot mix the traffic. We knocked and were let through after 3minutes. It could have been worse.

No sign of a transfer route.

Hit a long queue for passports which moved reasonably quickly. They had space for 4 agents but only 2 were in use - both on ‘all passports’. Thankfully a lady gave way to me and I jumped some of the queue. Took ~10 minutes here. Exited the baggage hall and ran to the left to get into departures.

There was no security queue to speak of and I jumped ahead of someone taking ages to get his stuff out of his bag.

Then it is a turn to the right ...up the escalator to the outbound passport check. Again ... virtually no queue.

So from back of inbound passport to gate was 17 minutes. From touchdown to gate was 28 minutes. This is against a 1 hour turnaround (and assume doors closed 5-10 mins before that).

But ... I had deliberately chosen a quieter time. If you check the Pisa departure boards ... there’s a lot of arrivals and departures in the morning all the way up to lunchtime. If you check twitter you will find lot so of photos and videos of long security queues ... all from between 10 and 12 in the morning.

Boarding began about 30 minutes prior to departure time but we were held on the airbridge for about 10 minutes so I was back on board at about 15 minutes prior to departure time.

I REALLY wouldn’t recommend Pisa. A small security queue and a small second passport queue would have had me really sweating. And from what I have seen ... if I was on the earlier departure ... I think I would have missed it.

Last people got on with 3 minutes to go (a321) ... so I think I had a 20 minute buffer to play with.

And on top of all this I have seen articles announcing a lot of building work at Pisa.