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  "live_availability": "unknown",
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    {
      "topic": "visa-entry",
      "url": "/en/mad/visa-entry/"
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    {
      "topic": "terminals",
      "url": "/en/mad/terminals/"
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    {
      "topic": "security",
      "url": "/en/mad/security/"
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    {
      "topic": "hotels",
      "url": "/en/mad/hotels/"
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  "content": {
    "summary": "For separate tickets, check both terminals and your baggage arrangements. If you must collect and recheck bags, allow for entry formalities, the public transfer, check-in and security again. The shuttle or APM ride time is not a safe connection allowance.",
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        "url": "https://www.aena.es/en/adolfo-suarez-madrid-barajas/airport-services/connecting-flights.html",
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        "checked_at": "2026-10-23",
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        "url": "https://www.aena.es/en/passengers/documentation-visas/immigration-visas/foreigner-travelling-spain.html",
        "label": "Official guidance",
        "checked_at": "2026-10-23",
        "review_due_at": "2026-10-30T06:37:07.566463+00:00",
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      "type": "p",
      "text": "Plan baggage collection, check-in and the route between separate flights."
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    {
      "type": "h2",
      "text": "Separate tickets: check the actual route"
    },
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      "type": "p",
      "text": "For separate tickets, check both terminals and your baggage arrangements. If you must collect and recheck bags, allow for entry formalities, the public transfer, check-in and security again. The shuttle or APM ride time is not a safe connection allowance."
    },
    {
      "type": "h2",
      "text": "Confirm bags and boarding passes"
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    {
      "type": "p",
      "text": "Ask each airline whether bags are checked through and where the next boarding pass is issued. Have the bag-drop, check-in and boarding deadlines for your onward flight."
    },
    {
      "type": "h2",
      "text": "Allow for the full route"
    },
    {
      "type": "p",
      "text": "Include arrival delays, border control, baggage reclaim, terminal travel, bag drop and security. This guide does not calculate a safe connection time or promise missed-flight protection; check your booking terms."
    },
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      "type": "h2",
      "text": "Visa & entry"
    },
    {
      "type": "p",
      "text": "Collecting bags, using the public terminal shuttle or reaching a landside hotel can require entering Spain. Check your exact connection with the airline before travel; do not assume that every international transfer stays airside."
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    {
      "type": "summary",
      "text": "Official sources & review"
    },
    {
      "type": "p",
      "text": "Requirements may change; confirm your travel-date rules with the authority."
    },
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      "type": "li",
      "text": "Official guidance Official · external ↗ · 2026-10-23"
    },
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      "type": "li",
      "text": "Official guidance Official · external ↗ · 2026-10-23"
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      "label": "Terminals →",
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      "label": "Security →",
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