Travel guides
Practical guides for following your flight offline, in airplane mode and without Wi-Fi.
Delayed first flight: will you make your connection?
What to do when a delay puts your connecting flight at risk, how single bookings and separate tickets differ, and your rights under EU and UK rules.
Does GPS work in airplane mode on a plane?
What airplane mode actually switches off, why your phone struggles to find GPS in the cabin, and how to follow your flight without it.
How to track your flight without Wi-Fi
Why live flight trackers stop updating on board, the two ways offline flight tracking works, and how to set it up before you board.
No Wi-Fi on your flight? What still works offline
How to find out whether your flight has Wi-Fi, what to prepare before you board, and what your phone can still do in airplane mode.
What am I flying over? How to tell from the plane
How high planes fly, how far you can see from the window, and how to recognise the cities, coasts and lakes below you, even without Wi-Fi.
Connecting at European airports
Amsterdam Schiphol connection time: 50 or 60 minutes?
Amsterdam Schiphol's minimum connection times, when you go through passport control or security again, and how the Entry/Exit System affects transfers.
Athens Airport connections: gates, checks and time
Athens Airport publishes no connection time. Where gates A, B and C are, extra time for the satellite, passport control and bags to regional Greek airports.
Frankfurt Airport connections: time, terminals, checks
Frankfurt publishes no minimum connection time. What it does publish on gate journey times, the new Terminal 3, the train between terminals and passport checks.
Heathrow connections: terminals, security and time
Heathrow publishes no minimum connection time. What you need to know about security for every connection, the bus between terminals and UK transit rules.
Madrid-Barajas connections: T4, T1-T3 and transfer times
Madrid-Barajas has two connection areas, T4 and T1-T3. How long transfers between them take, when you leave the transit zone and the airport's minimum times.
Munich Airport connections: time, terminals and checks
How much time a connection at Munich takes, the bus between Terminals 1 and 2, the train to the Satellite, the new non-Schengen pier and passport control.
Paris-CDG connection time: how long you need by terminal
The airport's recommended connection times at Paris-CDG for every terminal pair, how to get between terminals, and the terminal renaming in March 2027.
Rome Fiumicino connections: transfer rules and terminals
What happens when you change flights at Rome Fiumicino, which transfers need passport control or security, the two terminals and self-transfers.