Madrid connecting flights

[HMH]

Hi, I am finding it difficult to find definitive response on the web so thought I would post this here - I am going from San Sebastian to Porto with Iberia airlines - there is a layover of 55 mins in Madrid - is 55 mins enough time - I assume as we are booking connecting flights the luggage will go ahead, and from what I can see Euro domestic or Schragen to Schragen flights all leave from T4, is this cutting it too short? thanks

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Welcome on board AFF Airlines.
Can you get something with a wider time diff in MAD?
Ie, get an earlier plane out of EAS?
Is it on a linked PNR, ie, do you provide id to check in at EAS, and then just go through sec screening at MAD, as I assume no passport needed/just a European national id to go within Europe, (not involving UK).
I feel its too short, even if no passport needs to be shown.
Even if no passport stamping, but you will still have to line up to show id/passport at MAD airport, dom - int transfer, then line up for security screening area, etc).
Even for Aust dom - int travel, 55 mins while doable is cutting it very very fine, and tight.
I have not done inter Europe travel, only Aus - NZ, even then, for MEL, 55 mins going from T1 to T2 and passing immi and int sec screening, its tight, SYD its near impossible.
Best of luck.

 

[SYD]

Hi, I am finding it difficult to find definitive response on the web so thought I would post this here - I am going from San Sebastian to Porto with Iberia airlines - there is a layover of 55 mins in Madrid - is 55 mins enough time - I assume as we are booking connecting flights the luggage will go ahead, and from what I can see Euro domestic or Schragen to Schragen flights all leave from T4, is this cutting it too short? thanks

If your inbound flight arrives on time, I think you should be ok but it is obviously tight if there’s a delay. If it was Domestic to non-Schengen, I’d suggest looking for a different combo.

I flew IB SDR-MAD last year. From memory, it was like arriving at SYD domestic T3 and you could walk to the next gate. Albeit, MAD is very big and quite long distances between some gates (non-Schengen flights depart from a satellite terminal).

 

[torks]

Minimum connection time between Iberia flights at Madrid is 45 minutes (Schengen to Schengen), which you will be. You could get lucky and its next door, or it could be a little bit of a walk. There'll be no passport/security control.

Iberia generally have about 4 flights a day to Porto, so if your arrival is time sensitive I'd consider trying to get a longer connection if possible. If not time sensitive and your not on the last flight of the day I'd probably tolerate that connection.

 

[HMH]

thanks everyone, we decided to go via Bibao which provided a same ticket flight with TAP but a 2 hour stop over in Madrid which provides a little more leway if flights are delayed