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Old Jul 5th, 2011 | 05:53 PM
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Wondering if it is possible to change flights at KEF airport in one hour and 10 minutes coming from Boston heading to London--has anyone successfully done this?
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Old Jul 5th, 2011 | 11:54 PM
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It's cutting it very tight. If you land on time, then it will take 15/20 minutes to get off the plane and into the terminal (taxiing, steps, people shuffling etc.). Again, if your bags are routed through, you have to hope that they are transferred quickly enough.

You'll be a transit passenger so shouldn't have to go through immigration etc, but you pays your money...
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Old Jul 6th, 2011 | 10:13 AM
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I am pretty sure it will work. At least if you are flying Icelandair both legs which I guess you will do since hardly no other airlines fly to Iceland. KEF is not a busy airport and if you have both legs on the same ticket I am sure that Icelandair will make it work since they have to get you to London anyway. Icelandair's main business is to transport people from the US to Europe and vv

Lufthansa and KLM will sell you tickets with connections in Frankfurt and Amsterdam with less connection time than 70 minutes. And these are busy airports.
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Old Jul 6th, 2011 | 10:25 AM
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I think you'll be fine, too. As hoxa says, its not a big airport and its all one airline. Its what they do.
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Old Jul 6th, 2011 | 10:30 AM
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It should be no problem as there's only one terminal. Bags should be routed through.
We've had less an hour layover before (flight from Paris was a little late) and easily managed to catch our flight but didn't have time to pick up a snack as planned.

If you do get stuck for 4 hours or more then take a trip to the Blue Lagoon (pack a swimsuit)!
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Old Jul 7th, 2011 | 05:44 AM
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Thank you all very much--helped to relieve a spoonful of stress from this trip--we planned too much
Thanks!
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Old Jul 12th, 2011 | 08:51 AM
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This is my first post on this forum. I'm a full-time private tourist guide in Reykjavik Iceland since 1988. What a great place for travellers!

Keflavik International airport is small. Icelandair is likely to operate both flights. One hour is enough, unless something goes wrong.
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Old Jul 12th, 2011 | 09:40 AM
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another vote for it being a small airport
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Old Jul 27th, 2011 | 07:04 AM
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Hi Iceland Tour Guide, I just saw your post. I just did a post asking for private tour guide recommendations for one day when we dock in Reykavik. We would like to see some of your beautiful country. I do not know whether you can "advertise" your services here on the board. If you would like to email me perhaps I can ask you some questions offline. My email is: [email protected]
Please indicate NOT SPAM. Thank you.


P.S. We, too, have a very short layover time for our connecting flight onto Copenhagen where we will board our ship. We are flying Iceland air (both flights) Boston into Reykavik at 6:30 am and connecting flight to CPH is 7:45 am. I was stressing about the connection time when we booked the flights but the cruise ship air is offering the same flights so guess we should be ok. I was hoping the airport was a small one so we don't have to miss our flight.
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Old Jul 27th, 2011 | 08:36 AM
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We flew from Paris via Reykjavik to Boston last week with a one hour layover.

Walked through to immigration and through to the gate (20 mins total) waited 15-20 mins or so before boarding... the same plane we'd arrived on at a different gate LOL.

The good news being we were confident our luggage made it too
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