Next month I’ve a long haul Iberia flight (in J) arriving from GIG into T4S at 11-10am which is the end of a OW award. The onward OW flight that suits me best is a 1-00pm departure to LGW on BA out of T4S which would obviously be a separate revenue ticket.

1) Will I be able to connect the itineraries and interline the baggage straight thru?
2) Even if I do should I expect the bags make at a connection of less than 2 hours at T4S assuming I OLCI on BA?

I transited thru MAD from GRU to LHR last week. As I wanted to store the duty free in my bags for the intra-Europe portion I checked them thru just to MAD. They were very slow in coming out arriving something like 60-75 mins after arrival. That and the meandering though well signposted nature of T4/4S didn’t exactly inspire confidence. My gut feeling is that the connection is just about viable if the first flight is on time and I can interline the bags. Otherwise I could well run into trouble. This was my first time thru the new terminal so it may have been a one-off.

Any thoughts?