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Thanks everyone. Our return flight is from Barcelona with Vueling. They are under different booking references, so completely separate. We have already checked in for our Vueling flight. We can't check in for Lufthansa until Sunday. So I think we will be OK there.... I'm just concerned that FbC will be "worried" about us not showing up, and assuming we have missed the flight. Incidentally, we have received zero confirmations of our flights from Celebrity. I have emailed their flight department, but got absolutely nada. Thankfully, I noted the booking references when I made payment. @rslrhu How are we supposed to let them know on the day? They take over an hour to answer the phone! A complete time-waste! @doktor71 Yes, we have been through Frankfurt for a previous cruise, but booked flights ourselves for the day before. We missed the connecting flight to Rome, so stayed in Frankfurt overnight. No problem really, just had a super early flight to Rome the next morning. I would have been happy to change this flight, as I just feel it's too risky. Our itinerary means that we would likely miss the first 4 days of the cruise, and it's just not worth the worry. I'm happy with the Ryanair flights, and if there are any problems, our Plan B is still the Lufthansa option.

We have booked Flights by Celebrity to Rome via Frankfurt. I have realised the connection is a bit tight, and their on-time ratings are awful at the moment anyway. I called Celebrity and Lufthansa to try to change to the day before the cruise, but nobody could help. Celebrity couldn't find any flights the day before, and didn't seem interested that I thought there was a good chance we would miss the cruise. Lufthansa could see flights the day before, but couldn't make any changes. They needed my TA (Celebrity) to request the change. So, we decided to just book our own direct flights (at extra cost, obviously) with Ryanair. I won't be calling FbC again, it took in excess of one hour for them to answer the phone last time, and weren't exactly helpful. We are in the UK, and our call centre is even worse than this! Was quoted a cancellation fee of $200 USD per person as well. We will just leave the Frankfurt flights booked in case of any unforseen difficulties, Ryanair might let us down too, so Lufthansa will remain our back-up plan. Where does this leave us with Flights by Celebrity? We will likely be a no-show - will this cause any problems? I'm imagining that FbC might actually do some form of tracking to make sure all their passengers/flights are all running to schedule?