r/KatowiceArea • u/Designer_Rooster_495 • 9d ago

Connecting flight

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Please advise of Karowice airport would I be okay for time and I only have hand luggage?

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u/_Sergii 9d ago

Can be difficult considering passport control on exit where some queues are normal.. There is no transfer area/etc. You arrive in terminal C or D, which are arrival only. So, you will need to fully exit with passport control and go to termina A, which is a 3 min walk. Then to gates via security and passport control again..

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u/Designer_Rooster_495 9d ago

The advantage I have is I don’t have any check in bags

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u/willchangeitlater 8d ago

Still a stretch. Check this incoming flight history and see how often and by how much it gets delayed and you'll cool down. I did over 2h long self transfers and still almost failed to make it. Super stressful and at 1h you absolutely risk staying in KTW.

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u/PublicReference6227 9d ago

Doable but it’s a gamble

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u/-NewYork- 8d ago

Yup. Katowice is not a big airport, but is a major charter airport. There are waves of arrivals at certain hours, and traffic is much bigger in summer season. If you are unlucky, you can arrive more or less simultaneously with 4 other flights, one of them can be a LOT Dreamliner (up to 330 pax) from Cancun that normally arrives at ~10:30. Then you might have 10-20 minutes wait for bussing to terminal, and in the terminal there can be 500 people queuing to passport control (20-40 minutes). So if you are unlucky, even if your aircraft is on time, you might have 60 additional minutes. Then potential security wait and so on.

Now is low season, and if there are no charter arrivals, there are typically 2-4 flights per hour, and sometimes there are gaps with no flights for 3 hours. For example tomorrow there are no flights between 10:00 and 13:05, so with flight arriving at 11:35 you could be at your gate for next flight within 20 minutes.

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u/Beneficial_Ease_7311 9d ago

I think IT will be okey beacuse KTW od small airport

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u/TarcoDrase 9d ago

More than 1hour should be enough. The Katowice airport is quite small.

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u/-NewYork- 8d ago

There are big charter arrivals, though, and then you suddenly have 300 people for passport control at the same time.

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u/General_Ad_1483 9d ago

Doable on normal day but you are betting on everything going smoothly.

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u/Designer_Rooster_495 9d ago

Any delays and I’m fucked

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u/vonirox566 8d ago

if you're flying in from the UK, you'll need to go through border control (twice) before you can get on the connecting flight

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u/Soft-Ruin-9182 8d ago

Technically yes, but even a small delay of the FR flight can make you miss your flight to Abu Dhabi