Flight Travel in Europe?

My apologies for not being more clear. We've had a slight change in plans but my question still remains. The itinerary is as follows. We will board an easyjet booked flight from Amsterdam to London Stansted airport on the first of June. We have a four hour layover in London Stansted before boarding a ryanair flight to Rome. On the 6th of June we reverse the trip using the same connections with a slightly longer layover in Stansted. We will only be traveling with carry-on luggage.

Since the Netherlands is in the Schengen zone and the UK is not, you will be on an international flight and you will have to go through immigration/passport control when you arrive at Stansted. If your easyJet flight is on time, you will have no problem making your Ryanair flight. Four hours is plenty of time. However, I hope you realize that budget airlines are very strict about their check-in deadlines. If you don't have a boarding pass in hand when Ryanair's deadline arrives, your ticket will be worthless and you'll have to buy an expensive new one for a later flight. The same conditions will apply on your return.

It's actually a little more complicated...I'm guessing that when you say layover in London, you mean you're connecting from a flight fro the U.S. to a flight to Amsterdam? Is that right?

First, which airport in London. Second, what airlines are you flying from the U.S. to London and then London to Amsterdam? Third, how long is your layover? Fourth, will you have checked luggage or just carry on?

Both Amsterdam and Venice are within Schengen-Europe so direct flights between the two are like domestic flights. The UK is not part of Schengen-Europe and therefore flights to and from there are considered and handled as international flights incl. passport checks etc. What's your total itinerary?

And fifth, what airline are you flying from Amsterdam to Venice?

Standsted is one of those airports that makes all arriving flights go through passport control. (If you were at Heathrow or Gatwick you probably wouldn't have to.)

So, when you arrive, both times, you'll go through passport control and then check-in for your next flight. As mentioned earlier, make sure you have enough time as intructed by the airline. If you try to check in too late, you will not be allowed on the plane.

Ryanair usually closes check in at 40mins before the flight. Check your Ryanair email confirmation, and they'll include specific info on there if you scroll down. As Tim mentioned, they don't have a lot of sympathy when the flights are booked separately. You'd probably be fine, but with 2 flights already that day the odds of eating the cost of one or both discount flights increases.

One alternative idea - look at taking a train to Bremen or Dussledorf from Amdam, then flying out on Ryanair to Venice (they have connections from both cities). Dutch trains are cheap, efficient, usually on time, and you wouldn't have to worry about flight delays. With layovers, etc travel time is about the same as Stansted too.

Have a great trip!

Megan, are your Easyjet and Ryanair flights booked already? Are you aware of the low cost carrier transavia.com that flies directly to Italy from Amsterdam? Otherwise you'd be spending a lot of very valuable time at airports and on board of planes...

Have you purchased flight already?? Does seem like you might have been able to get better flights, thats alot of time in airports for such a short flight.

What is your intiniary and where are you trying to go?

The best I can tell you are saying that you are arriving from the US into Amsterdam. Then flying to London to catch a flight to Rome all on the same day. (at first it was Venice but your plans changed). Then it sounds like you are flying from Rome to London to catch a flight back to Amsterdam to return to the US.

Is there some missing information about other plans you have at these other places during the week?

Otherwise the answer would seem to be fly direct to Rome from the US. This way you would have no layovers.