Check-in baggage and flight transfers

[garycat]

I'm flying to Munich on monday morning from Bristol via Amsterdam. The transfer time in Amsterdam is just 40 minutes so is this enough time to get my bags from the hold and put them on to the second plane, or should I try to cram a week's worth of clothes into a carry on bag?

[andy-xr]

Baggage transfer should happen automagically, shouldnt it? The only time I've had to recheck baggage was clearing immigration on the East Coast before flying on to the west coast of the US. Ask when you check in whether it goes through for you

That's a bloody tight transfer though, I'd be asking the air crew of the first flight to find the gate of the second and be up and ready soon as the plane's parked

[Finlandia]

Don't know about Schiphol, but we used to say less than an hour for transfer at Heathrow and you can forget your checked in luggage. It goes automatically, but 40mins to locate a bag in a hold, transport it to next aircraft, load it, is very tight.

[BrabusMog]

That's a tight turnaround, I'd be packing as much as possible into hand luggage - you need about an hour and 15 mins at Schipol.

[SLCZ3]

You are best to check the bags straight through, but the time you have is very tight, tell
check-in to mark it priority, in addition you will have to make good time when landing at Schipol, for if you are landing at gate D6, you have to go through immigration and security for access to the gates for Munich iirc(T3 is it), that can take an hour + during busy periods.
What time is your arrival in Schipol?

[Starfighter]

Make sure you check your bags right through to MUC. This should be automatic on the same airline or partnership. Who are you flying with? If there is an airline change involved then I doubt that you bags will make it.

40 minutes as AMS is a very short turnaround. I have seen information boards with times to get the gate at over 1 hour. Be prepared to run and push to the front of the queues. Note also that you will may have to pass through additional passport controls at both arrival and departure points. Additional security screens (bags and body searches) will be required. Do not even think of stopping for anything.

[garycat]

SLCZ3 said:

What time is your arrival in Schipol?

Mon 4 Mar 13 06:15 Bristol (Bristol Intl., United Kingdom)
Mon 4 Mar 13 08:45 Amsterdam (Schiphol, Netherlands)

Mon 4 Mar 13 09:25 Amsterdam (Schiphol, Netherlands)
Mon 4 Mar 13 10:50 Munich (Munich Intl., Germany)


Looks like I'll have to do it all as hand baggage and run like hell.

Thanks for the advice.

[andy-xr]

They wont allow you to travel on a connection that you'd never make, rumour has it even if you'd booked it as 2 separate journeys. So you should be able to make the transfer. Chances are your luggage will be ahead of you and be on the plane while you're at the gate