I'm seeing some good discount fares from DC to Prague. They stop once in another European spot on the way. But many of these flights have 1 hour stop only. My question: Is that enough time between flights? I'm not sure what happens on these one-stop flights re customs etc. and don't want to cut it too ridiculously close. Thanks for advice. . . .

Since the Czech Republic is not in the Schengen common-travel area, you'll be doing an int'l-to-int'l transit. No need to go through immigration or customs, but you'll have to go through security.

Whether it's enough time depends on the airport and airline. At some airports like CDG or LHR, it's likely you have to take a shuttle bus to go between terminals. At others like AMS, you don't. So, again, it depends.

There is something called MCT; minimum connection time. It is used by the airlines to determine the minimum amount of time needed to make a connection at any airport between any airline. As some from this site will confirm, what one airline considers a MCT, isn't always the most feasible. What you want to look at is what is the suggested connection from the airline, and if it seems short, what is the next flight offered by that same airline. ie.. you are confirmed arriving Paris CDG at 8am and leaving Paris to Prague at 905am. If there is a 1030am from Paris to Prague, you can either request the longer connection or take the shorter connection, and worse case scenario, the later is available as backup. If you miss your connection and you had a legal layover, the airline has to put you on its next available flight. That said, if the next flight is sold out, you may be in for a long wait. Another option is to book the longer connection, and if time allows, fly standby on the earlier flight. That only works if you are not checking bags, but it is an option.

Good luck!

As long as you book your connecting flight on the same e-ticket and with the same airline, you are protected against misconnecting. If there is another later flight that you know of, your worst case scenario would involve being put onto that flight ... at no cost to you. I say go for it.

Hi G,

I am always leery of connections less than 90 min.

What are the specifics?

ditto!
even 90 min. can be tight
at some airports.

On our November trip from DC to Berlin and Prague we were supposed to have 40 minutes to change planes on the way back thru Amsterdam. But A'dam had trouble with their radar and we ended up getting into the terminal 15 minutes before our DC flight was supposed to leave.

We did the OJ run thru the airport (at least our son did, and it was from one end of the airport to the other) and got to the gate just as they were giving us our last chance page by name and starting to close the ramp door.

Actually, I was hoping we might have to overnight in A'dam as there were some things we wanted to do that we didn't have a chance to on our visit there in July. But we did make it with probably 29 seconds to spare.