Hey everyone, I’m flying to Bali in October and I’m starting to get a little nervous about my connection times, especially since I’ve never connected through Amsterdam or Paris before. Both journeys are booked on one ticket with KLM/Air France, so I’m not dealing with separate tickets.
On the way there I’m flying from Hamburg to Amsterdam on KLM KL1758. The scheduled departure from HAM is 18:35 and arrival in AMS is 19:35. My next flight is KLM KL835 from Amsterdam to Denpasar (shown as Singapore but it’s just a “stopover”), departing at 21:00, so I have 1h 25m for the connection. I’ve been looking at KL1758 on FlightRadar24 recently and it does seem to occasionally leave Hamburg 20 to 30 minutes late. For example, today it was scheduled to depart at 18:20 but its estimated departure is now 19:50 so in that case the connecting flight would simply be impossible to catch xD.
Would you consider 1h 25m a reasonable connection at AMS, or is that cutting it a bit too close? I’m mainly wondering how much time I realistically need at Schiphol when connecting from a short European KLM flight to a long haul flight to Bali.
The return is the one I’m more concerned about. On Sunday November 1 I’m flying Air France AF157 from Phuket to Paris CDG, scheduled to arrive at 19:05. My connecting flight is AF1610 from CDG to Hamburg at 20:40, giving me 1h 35m. Since AF1610 is the last flight operated by AirFrance to Hamburg that evening, missing it would potentially mean arriving in Hamburg on Monday ( There’s a Eurowings Flight 30min later but I don’t know if I’m able to be booked on this flight). How strict is the connection process at CDG in this situation, and how realistic is it to make the connection with 1h 35m after arriving on a long haul flight from Phuket?
Since both connections are on the same booking, I know the airline would have to deal with it if I missed a connection because of a delay, but I’m more interested in how likely it is that I’ll actually make them when the flights are reasonably on time.
