Ciao a tutti,
Ho prenotato un volo da Ginevra a San Francisco con coincidenza a Zurigo (GVA → ZRH → SFO). Questo itinerario era più economico che prenotare solo la tratta ZRH → SFO e vivo a GVA, quindi aveva senso.
Ma ora mi chiedo se la connessione sia fattibile. Secondo il mio biglietto:
Il volo GVA → ZRH atterra alle 12:05
Il volo SFO parte alle 13:15 (quindi l’imbarco termina intorno alle 12:40-12:45?)
Anche se scendo dall’aereo, diciamo, alle 12:20, mi restano circa 20 minuti per superare i controlli di sicurezza e gli Stati Uniti per il volo a lungo raggio. Sembra quasi impossibile, vero?
Posso cambiare il volo Ginevra-Zurigo con uno precedente, ma mi costerebbe 400 CHF in più…
Cosa ne pensate? Questo collegamento è davvero realistico a Zurigo oppure devo andare sul sicuro e pagare un extra? Qualche consiglio da chi ha già fatto questo collegamento?
Grazie
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di Androz2091
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Yep, they arrange your express layover if the 1st plane would happen to be delayed, incl. fast customs
Within ZRH you should be fine, after all you won’t have to deal with your checked luggage in ZRH
Assuming both flights are on the same ticket, it should be fine, just don’t waste time in the terminal. If the first flight is late and you miss the second flight, I believe it is the airline’s responsibility to ensure you make it to your destination and potentially cover additional costs eg meal vouchers and hotel vouchers
Yes that is definitely possible.
Transfer time should be around 25min to the E gates.
There is no additional security, only passport control which is usually very expeditious.
Plus, if the GVA-ZRH flight is delayed and it gets tight, Swiss will usually provide a direct transfer, I.e. a bus that will pick you up at the gate on arrival and bring you straight through passport control to the other aircraft.
Plus plus, the long haul flights will almost always wait for connecting pax.
Plus plus plus, the midday long haul flights are almost always delayed anyway because of the departure wave between 1100 and 1400.
So, overall, a lot would have to go wrong for you to not make that connection.
The problem is if the plane arrives late. If you check flightradar24 and put the number of your flight, you’ll see it usually arrives some minutes later but not dramatically.
However, I think the flight to the US needs to wait for you for some time. Especially because it is the same company. To be honest, if your trip to the US can be accepted with one day cancelled because of a bad scenario, you’d also be able to receive 600 CHF from the company. If it is a short trip and you don’t want to miss for sure one day, I think the risk is quite big.
But as I like risk and do not think too much of bad consequences, I usually take such plans anyway because it’s cheaper.
Realistic, I’ve actually taken this route with similar time in ZRH before
Hi so a couple of things at play here, on the one hand the gate only closes 10mins before departure, so at 13:05, meaning in theory this transfer should be well doable, on the other hand though, 2813 is notoriously delayed which can make the transfer a bit tight.
Now, an airline company is always about minimizing their cost and rebooking you for a different or a later flight costs them a ton of money, especially given you won’t be the only one with that connection. There’s two things that LX does at ZRH to mitigate this, for one they have direct transfer buses that take you directly from the GVA flight to a separate passport control, then through additional security and to your gate, so if there’s a sufficient numer of transferring passengers, this is one thing they could do, the other thing is that long haul flights are always planned with some flight time reserves to ensure an on-time arrival, so if it’s just 5min or so that you’d be late chances are it’d make more economic sense for them to just hold the plane a little rather than rebook you, pay your compensation and maybe your hotel and food.
It should be doable, barring flight delays. If you miss it because of a delay of the incoming aircraft you will be rebooked to the next one for free. Of course that may be the day after and far from ideal, but something to consider.
Via GVA is still a minor difference. Try MXP-ZRH-SFO 🙂
Question to those who maybe have tried it, is going to ZH by train a possible alternative in this case? Like taking 8 or 9 am train from Geneva and arriving around 11-12 to ZH. Or train would be to tiresome?
Thank you for all your comments and help, I didn’t expect it! 🙏🙏
I will keep my flight and see how it goes!
Recent flight gva>Zh>Seoul. I waited on the plane for the bus to arrive about 15 min. Then the bus waited just in front of the terminal for another 10 minutes. In the end, I didn’t make my flight because of “ground events” beyond my control.
It is possible, and you don’t even need to take the gva-zrh stretch. In fact it’s often a train and I’ve booked it but just hopped on at Bern and essentially got a free train ride to zrh
You only have to go through passport control and the document check before boarding takes less than a minute and can also be done at the gate when boarding if time is short.
Only problem is when the Geneva flight is late. But in any case it is the airlines responsibility to guarantee you get to your destination unless you take unreasonably long for the transfer. Just go straight to the gate and you’ll be fine.