Originally Posted by
pauljeff
Hi... flying LHR-> HEL -> RVN with a 45 minute connection and 3 kids...
Looks like we just need to make it through passports as its non-schengen to schengen but UK is 'good' so no security, so as long as we get on with it we should be ok?
We did the exact same flights 2 weeks ago with 2 kids - no issues at all, made it comfortably in time.
On the way back our flight was RVN > HEL > DOH with a 45 min layover in HEL - that did not work out well, as our RVN > HEL flight arrived 40 minutes late. As there is only one flight from HEL > DOH, we had to wait 24 hours till the next flight. Wasted accommodation in Doha aside, it meant we had to do a 6.5 hour flight followed by a 11h flight back to Perth with a 2.5 hour gap between. We had deliberately left a day gap between our HEL>DOH and DOH>PER flights to avoid that situation, and also missed out on seeing Doha.