Originally Posted by
ijgordon
Hi all - flying JFK-FRA-BER soon on SQ->LH in J and I have just over a 1 hr connection. The next flight to BER was a 4 hr connection so I figured I’d do the tight one and hope for the best. Now looks like that 4hr connection may be cancelled (zeroed out on ExpertFlyer) making it a 5hr connection if I misconnect.
Looks like the SQ flight uses gate B46 and the LH flights to BER use A gates in the teens, so seems like I’d take the tunnel from B19 over to the A gates.
I assume I have to clear passport control, where does that happen? What about security?
How fast do I need to run to make it? I’m sitting near the forward upstairs boarding door on the SQ A380 so hopefully I can be off quickly.
LH flight is a SQ codeshare, will I still deal with LH if I do misconnect and need to rebook? I assume I can do that in the LH lounge. I believe with a J ticket and an Amex Platinum I can use the Senator lounge?
Will LH rebook on a train? ExperFlyer does show LH codeshares from ZRB to QPP. There’s one that arrives into Berlin Hbf at almost exactly the same time as the later flight arrives at BER so that would actually get me to my hotel faster.
I suppose I should try my best to do carry-on?
Thanks for any color!
We recently had a 1 hour 5 minute connection, when I booked it I thought we would land and depart both from B gates so was quite comfortable with that. However we landed in an A gate and had to get the train over to B25 through security also. We landed on time fortunately and made it fine to the departing flight, they had just started boarding so we went straight on. We walked quickly no running, there was a small queue at security but they were very thorough, everything out of our hand luggage so bear that in mind also. We probably had a spare 25 minutes as people carried on boarding for that long after us. Luggage made it also back to Heathrow so very grateful.