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Flying from Edinburgh to County Kerry via Dublin - connection time?

Greetings,

To get from Edinburgh to Dingle at the end of May, my mother and I opted to fly, and we found great fares on Aer Lingus. However, the Aer Lingus website would not allow me to book it all at once as a single journey, so I had to book the two legs separately (Edinburgh to Dublin, then Dublin to Kerry).

It was only AFTER booking the tickets that it dawned on me to wonder if we will have to go through immigration in between the two flights. We have (assuming flights are on time) 1 hour and 20 minutes between arrival and departure (both from the same terminal).

Does anyone know if this will be sufficient connecting time? Or if we should eat the cost of the tickets we already bought and get earlier ones out of Edinburgh to allow for a longer connecting time? I don't think the cheap fare we got allows for any changes.

(Calling Aer Lingus customer service with questions got me no definitive information. I had also called to make sure we would be able to check our bags all the way through from Edinburgh to Kerry, since they will be too large to bring as cabin baggage for the intra-Ireland leg, and Aer Lingus charges a great deal more for bags gate-checked upon arrival - and the woman had to ask someone to find out that that would even be possible. She couldn't tell me if we'd have to go through immigration or not, or if the connection time was long enough.)

Thank you in advance for any help!

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You will need to go through immigration, but if you are not collecting bags then you can go through the transit corridor with its dedicated immigration and security. If you are fortunate that both flights arrive/depart from the "200" gates area then you can connect directly, but this cannot be guaranteed.

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Thank you for the info, Marco! Is it your opinion that 1 hour 20 minutes is sufficient time, or would you be nervous in my shoes (carrying an American passport)...?

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The fact that Aer Lingus wouldn't allow you to book a single ticket suggests to me that they consider the possible connection too risky.

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It wasn't that specific itinerary they wouldn't allow - I wasn't able to enter Edinburgh as a starting point and Kerry as an ending point of any journey, period, via the Aer Lingus website. It said I needed to call Reservations to do that but gave an Irish telephone number. (Expedia and other booking engines DID allow for booking it all on a single ticket, but then I couldn't add bags to the tickets.)

Had I known they had a US phone number for reservations, I would have called IT to book the journey on a single ticket and saved myself a great deal of worry and headache, but I didn't find out about the US reservations number till it was too late.

I've sent an email to Aer Lingus and will try the US number again (since I can't seem to get through at either the Irish or the UK number, despite having tried many many times), and hopefully someone will either be able to put my mind at ease or help me make whatever change needs to be made.

Thanks again for the info you gave! (And if anyone has experience with this kind of connection, I'd love to hear about it!)