I've got flights to Puglia set up for September. Looking over additional options, I have the opportunity to cancel my original flight (which has a very long layover in FCO) and rebook a new flight that would save a bunch (on a different airline). My primary worry is that the cheaper flight has a connection in FCO that's 2 hours 10 minutes. It's been years since I went through FCO and don't recall the details.
My inbound flight would be on American Airlines. I'd be connecting to an ITA flight to Bari.
Will be arriving on a Tuesday in mid-September, just before noon. We WILL have checked bags.
My guess is that this should be "enough time to connect, barring any disasters, but not a lot of time to waste."
For those who know FCO better than me (that's most of you) is this a reasonably safe connection? What do you think?
Note: This should be on a single ticket all the way (I THINK...checking to confirm that now...it's not clear to me because I believe ITA is now part of Star Alliance, while American is in OneWorld...so I would not expect them to check bags through, yet I'm seeing info online, from a usually-reliable source, that insists American does have an Interline agreement with ITA, which should in theory indicate that they can do the bag transfer. Of course, it's Italy, and I know that sometimes things don't always work perfectly as one might hope...)