I have booked flights with Continental to Orlando via Newark in October. We have a 2 hour 25 minute layover in Newark. No problem, I thought - just a nice amount of time to collect the bags and stretch our legs. However I am gutted to discover that our flight (CO127, leaving Dub at 10.55am) does NOT pre-clear immigration in Dublin (unlike the earlier Continental flight), and in fact we will have to queue up in Newark to go through immigration. There will be five of us and I strongly suspect that we will not now have enough time to make our connecting flight. That would be a nightmare with young kids. I was under the impression that all Continental flights bound for Newark cleared immigration in Dublin but apparently this is not the case. I wouldn't have booked this flight if I'd been aware of this. The 9am CO flight, which does pre-clear in Dublin, was the same price and it would have been fine. Why don't they make this information clear? I would have thought it's fairly important in relation to planning onward connections.
Does anyone have experience of travelling this route? How likely are we to catch our connection?
Does anyone have experience of travelling this route? How likely are we to catch our connection?