Connecting flights

If your first flight is delayed, your second flight will not usually wait for you. But if an airline has sold you a ticket from A to C, connecting at B, and the connection fails it's the airline's problem, not yours. They will reroute you, or put you on the corresponding flight next day, or whatever, to get you to C.

Different if you're flying with a budget point-to-point airline like Ryanair. Their position is that they have sold you a ticket from A to B and a second and separate ticket from B to C. What goes on at B, and whether you turn up for your flight from B to C, are your problems, not theirs.

CDG is a nightmare to connect in compared to Schiphol and why on earth would you make separate bookings? Single ticket gives you more protection and your luggage automatically goes straight through.

Have you ever actually connected in Schiphol? All one terminal, well sign posted, moves quickly. CDG flights from Ireland with Air France often use remote gates so you're waiting on a bus and the walk between gates can easily be 30 minutes plus. I've done many long haul trips via the two airports and Schiphol wins every time for ease and speed of connection.

The reason most connections are fine is because you are generally in the same terminal and usually there is a route straight to the connection gate. I’ve often gotten off planes and be at the next gate in 10 mins.

Sky scanner will make it clear if the connection is a different airline. They have it in big red writing. If it’s not a connection and it’s two separate things altogether I would say an hour is not enough, especially nowadays as Covid checks etc are still being done. But yes if it’s an actual connection I would trust skyscanner.

Sometimes I'll get an earlier flight out of Dublin if possible and spend the day in the connecting city.

I flew Dublin to Rio via Frankfurt with Lufthansa. The preferred route (on Skyscanner and Lufthansa website) was a flight out of Dublin at about 5.45pm to make the connecting flight at 10pm(ish). It gave me about 90 minutes to connect in Frankfurt. I decided I'd get the 12.00pm flight out of Dublin instead, go into Frankfurt, have my dinner and a couple of drinks, have a wander around, then head back to the airport at my leisure. Lucky I did as the flight out of Dublin was delayed and I would have missed the flight to Rio.

It would be a case by case decision. Presumably many of the passengers arriving on the delayed Belgrade-Frankfurt flight were connecting to other flights, but most of those would not be flights to Dublin. For each impacted connection the airline has to consider (a) how many passengers are involved; (b) what will be the cost of accommodating/rebooking them if they miss their connections; and (c) what will be the cost/resource requirement of enabling them to make their connections. Airlines with a big hub-and-spoke operation have computer software which models the impact of delayed incoming flights in real time and works out the optimal way of managing them, given all the variables, so that by the time the plane lands the airline knows who are they are going to assist to make their connections, and has the resources in place to do so.