Should I change my incoming flight?
I am flying from the US to Ibiza in September with two layovers. CLT > MAD arriving at 5:30 am. MAD > ALC departing at 7:25 am and arriving at 8:40 AM. ALC > IBZ departing at 2:15 (14:15) pm and arriving at 3:13 (15:15) pm. Booked on a single ticket. Flying AA to Madrid then Iberian. But since it's a single ticket, our luggage (if we check any) should be checked all the way through to the final destination.
Since Madrid is our first stop into the Schengen Zone, am I correct in assuming we will need to go through EES? And if so, how realistic is it that we actually make the 7:25 AM flight to ALC with only a 1hr 55 min layover?
There is another flight from MAD > ALC departing at 11:50 and arriving at 1:05 (13:05). That makes me less worried about long lines at Madrid for EES and immigration, but its a tight connection at ALC to get to our flight to IBZ.
Do you think we should risk missing the 7:25 am flight from MAD > ALC? Or switch to the 11:50 to ALC for piece of mind leaving MAD, with a caveat of a tight connection at ALC?