Lay overs and collecting hold baggage - time?

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Something I've never had to do until now.
I'm considering flights and best option seems to be a self transfer connecting flight.

The airport in question is Karlsruhe, Germany
With one terminal.

The layover is 3.5 hours.

I believe this is fine. But I've never had to go to baggage reclaim before on a transfer.

Is this enough time?
 
Layover time is fine if everything goes well. The problem with self-transfer is that if your first flight is late or cancelled, you won't have any recourse and the airline will not put you on another flight or put you in a hotel if next one is the next day, etc (they must do this if it's a single ticket with a layover). You'd have to buy a new very expensive ticket.
 
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HACO said:
Layover time is fine if everything goes well. The problem with self-transfer is that if your first flight is late or cancelled, you won't have any recourse and the airline will not put you on another flight or put you in a hotel if next one is the next day, etc (they must do this if it's a single ticket with a layover). You'd have to buy a new very expensive ticket.
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Its direct on way out, but layover with no other option on way back. Might see if I can get a flight with a bigger gap.
Like you say.. Sounds fine if not late/cancelled.

Does insurance cover any of this?
-edit. Doesn't look like it
 
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Baden-Baden right? Haven’t been through it in a couple years but in the 15+ times I’ve landed there it’s been the fastest airport I’ve been to baring Malaga.
 
explicit4u said:
Baden-Baden right? Haven’t been through it in a couple years but in the 15+ times I’ve landed there it’s been the fastest airport I’ve been to baring Malaga.
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Yes. That's the one. Bags come off fast? Getting through security is fast too?
 
explicit4u said:
Yep, never been more than 20mins from landing to leaving. Most people use the nearby Stuttgart airport.
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Great. I'm going to risk it. Like like spacing it out any further would be next day anyway.
Can't plan for everything
 
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