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Help understanding this Iberia flight info

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We are planning to do this itinerary
Madrid 4 nights
Cordoba 4
Seville 6
Granada 6
We thought we would return to Madrid to get a flight back to London but now are considering flying from Granada. On Iberia these were the details given for the transfer

Stop at Madrid Adolfo Suarez-Barajas MAD - Long connection time: 2h
Change of terminal: Arrival 4 Madrid (MAD) - Departure 4S Madrid (MAD): Arrival at T4S - Departure from T4

Will we have enough time to get from one terminal to the other? Is there a better way to do this? We don’t want to spend extra time on trains and planes? Is Granada an big airport and are there any issues here? Thanks!

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This is absolutely fine. (I'm in T4, on average, every other month.)

While they call T4 and T4S separate terminals, we would call them separate concourses of the same terminal. (Connected by an underground train—like Atlanta, Denver, or T5 in Heathrow.) The total time from one gate to the other will be under 30 minutes, maybe 40 if there's a particularly long line for exit passport control.

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Last month we flew from Granada to Rome via Madrid on Iberia.

The Madrid airport is very nice (and very big). As noted in the other post, terminals 4 and 4S are connected by train like many of our large airports. Sounds like you will have to deal with passport control in Madrid since you are leaving the EU and heading to London..
Given the terminal change and passport control, your 2 hr connection in Madrid 'might' be a little on the tight side (for me at least). Passport control can get backed up if there are several large international flights leaving around the same time.

Regaring the airport in Granada, it is a small and actually quite nice. We had a 9:30am departure and it tooks 5 min to get through security - there were 3 flights leaving around the same time, but they were all relatively small planes and so the terminal wasn't overwhelmed. Alsa bus company runs an airport bus to/from the airport and downtown, and it takes just over 1 hour. We took a taxi from our downtown hotel to the airport because we had an early flight and didn't want to allow for the extra bus time. At minimum, the taxi ride takes ~30 mins and can be longer depending on traffic / time of day. The Granada airport is quite a ways outside of town.

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