Stockholm Arlanda - transfer

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Hi

anyone used Stockholm ARN for a flight transfer and can tell me what it's like? Current options are a 55 minute change (I Know!) or 5 hours in the airport.

Also, does anyone know whether I'd need to reclaim baggage and then recheck it, both legs are with same airline.

As you can probably tell, I usually travel direct

thanks

I use Arlanda frequently and it’s a nice (pretty small) airport. Very manageable. 55 mins would be tight at any airport though! What time of year are you going? I find my flights are often more likely to be delayed in winter when the need to deice the planes/there is a heavy snow storm and we need to wait to land. Not by much, but enough that i’d worry with only an hour.

You’d struggle to fill 5 hours there though! Can you change at Copenhagen instead, I could shop there for ages!

55 minutes is enough. It’s not that big from my memory.

thanks both, I think this is the problem, 55 mins isn't enough and 5 hours is too much. there's not that much choice of connecting airports without a significant hike in prices.

Does anyone know if I'd need to collect bags and recheck them?

Same airline - on one booking - your bags should go through
I'd go for the 55 mins - it should be enough and if not they will stick you on the later flight anyway

Your bags will go through so don’t worry! As above, Arlanda is small so you’re going to be limited on shops and eateries!

We occasionally go the interconnecting flights route. I think there is an official time limit of what length of time they should be as well - will google for you! The shorter time in the airport is more appealing definitely but I think that’s cutting it too fine in the offchance there is a delay on either the take off or landing. Having done it, there is nothing worse than running through an airport (particularly if you’ve got DC with you) with hand luggage trying to catch the next plane. 5 hours will be really full (we did 6 last year in Kuwait) but take lots of snacks, tablets with lots of downloads, power packs to recharge the tablets and books etc.

Dull not full!

Ok so there is no official MCT (minimal connection time), each airport has its own but there’s a recommendation of at least 1-3 hours for International transfers. This on Arlanda and how to get around the Terminals might be useful:
www.flyertalk.com/forum/sas-eurobonus/1259674-arn-connection-merged.html

Not done Stockholm transfer but we did Finnair transfer - both flights booked together with Finnair as a connected flight and they transferred luggage - ours was very tight, something like 50 mins and we had to run like crazy but we made it. If it's sold as connecting I would go for the 55 minute one, think we just had to show passports and run but better than sitting at an airport for 5 hours. If it's not a connecting flight then would do the 5 hours.

Actually not sure ours was sold as connecting but was the option that came up when you booked via the airline and it seemed fine. If it comes up as an option on airlines website for straight through should be OK. So in our case we put in London to Oulu and option came up.