45 min Enough to transfer in MUC?
 

Hey Folks,
I'm doing LAX to MUC then connecting to OTP, all on Lufthansa.
My MUC flight arrives at 13:00 and my OTP flight leaves MUC at 13:45.

Is this enough time to get to my flight?
Could someone surmise how this transfer is going to work?
Will the gate agents for my OTP flight know I am coming in from LAX?
Thats a pretty small window and the next flight out does not leave until
21:00.
Someone give me some good news or at least a hopeful outlook.

Peace!
Tom

"ThomasG" wrote in
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Hey Folks,
I'm doing LAX to MUC then connecting to OTP, all
on Lufthansa.
My MUC flight arrives at 13:00 and my OTP flight
leaves MUC at 13:45.

Is this enough time to get to my flight?
Could someone surmise how this transfer is going
to work?
Will the gate agents for my OTP flight know I am
coming in from LAX?
Thats a pretty small window and the next flight
out does not leave until
21:00.
Someone give me some good news or at least a
hopeful outlook.

I transferred between United and Lufthansa (RJ
operated by AirLitoral) to LYS at MUC a few years
ago. It was a long walk up and down stairs - and
more than one passport check. It might have been
better had I been changing to mainline Lufthansa.
Is your filight from LAX really Lufthansa or a
code-share on United?

3. Limit your hand luggage to allow you to move quickly. This is one case
where I'd recommend checking rather than carrying luggage.

DEFINITELY NOT!!! This is the time to NOT check luggage. If you check
luggage you have to wait to claim it from the luggage carousel (very
very long at MUC), re-check the luggage and then go through customs at
the same time as everyone else. Bring carry-on only and bypass the
checked luggage wait. If it were an Intra-EU flight than I might
agree.


gerald

Hi!

Leopold Hamulczyk wrote:
You don't need to claim any baggage. Romania is not part of the EU, neither
is is part of Schengen. It is a straight international-international
transit

Even if you connect to a Schengen flight your luggage does not have
to be claimed.
Example: DTW-AMS-TXL
On one of my flights German customs really checked my luggage on
arrival in Berlin.

brgds

--
Gunter Herrmann
Naples, Florida, USA

devil wrote:
And anyway, if the airline is willing to sell you a ticket, the onus is on
them if you miss the connection. Why worry?

Did the original poster purchase tickets directly from airline, or from a
travel agent ?

(web sites are just travel agents, unless you are using the actual airline's
web site).

If ticket was not issued by airline, then it is quite possible that they
issued a ticket with an illegal connection, in which case, the passenger will
have problems when he misses the connection.

On the other hand, if the second leg of the trip has frequent service, it may
not really be such an issue. Where problems surface is when the missed
connection entails extra costs (hotel, meals etc), at which point the legality
or not of the connection comes into play.

Hilary wrote:

I transferred between United and Lufthansa (RJ
operated by AirLitoral) to LYS at MUC a few years
ago. It was a long walk up and down stairs - and
more than one passport check.

You must have taken a wrong turn somewhere. That sort of thing was
never necessary, even in Terminal 1. Terminal 2 is still quite new. T2
is the Star Alliance terminal now, so also the one that United uses.

Is it? Most LH and related flights use T1.

T1 is the 'old' terminal. When T2 opened in June 2003, LH and all Star
airlines moved to T2.
T2 will get an additional satellite in the near future. 3rd runway is in
the planning stages.

http://www.munich-airport.de

M

Gerald Sylvester wrote in message . com...
3. Limit your hand luggage to allow you to move quickly. This is one case
where I'd recommend checking rather than carrying luggage.

DEFINITELY NOT!!! This is the time to NOT check luggage. If you check
luggage you have to wait to claim it from the luggage carousel (very
very long at MUC), re-check the luggage and then go through customs at
the same time as everyone else. Bring carry-on only and bypass the
checked luggage wait. If it were an Intra-EU flight than I might
agree.

No, that is not usually necessary. Local regulations at MUC *do not*
require you to schlepp the bags through customs if your connecting
flight leaves Germany again. In fact, this isn't required by local law
*anywhere* in the world where I have ever been. Or can remember. The
US is no different in this respect.

Whether your bags can be checked 'through' has nothing to do with
local laws, it depends entirely on inter-airline agreements. Checking
'through' costs the airlines real money. They have to pay the airport
for that service.

The thing that *is* different at German (Schengen?) airports is that
you can land at FRA on your international portion and continue on to
MUC. Your bags get checked to MUC, no need to do customs at FRA.

Then you land at MUC in the airport's Schengen area. So normally no
need to go through customs there either. Cool, you think. Let's
smuggle a few pounds of cough.

But beware, in FRA your bag received a little yellow 'hot' tag.
Customs looks for that. Of course you could just tear that off. If you
think that all those video cameras are just decoys.

....

And you don't really wait a long time for luggage at Munich. You don't
have to wait endlessly at immigration, so it just seems to take long,
because you get to the carousel so fast.

M