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Old Nov 15, 2021 | 7:12 am
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Originally Posted by st8dm
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despite its size and international reputation, Frankfurt airport may be quite chaotic.

Based on the provided information, you will be allowed to enter Germany.
In addition to that, please mind your layover.
If it's an overnight layover you might find yourself in the unpleasant situation when the lounge is closing at 21:30 or something.

Useful tip:
Frankfurt is a chaotic airport as any other huge airport. Rules are not uniformly enforced.
If you find yourself denied entry, just move back, switch terminals (from A to B or C) and try again another agent.
You might be very surprised to find out that it may very well be a different outcome.
I live in FRA and I had multiple situations where I got very different responses from the airport personnel.

Unless there is something very wrong with your passport or have no covid pass, you will be allowed to enter.
And yes, you are able to do such thing, switch terminals without exiting airport.
Once you find yourself in the arrivals, all you have to do is to go through security again and use departure lanes.


However, please note, once outside terminal, you may be denied re-entering until your flight is closing in (e.g. 3-4h, no earlier).

p.s.: I always take a antigen test before take off and after landing.
During the past 3 months, when vaccination become ominous, I was no longer asked for, but I use one anyway.
If I were you, I would also take a test, just in case.

Good luck!
st8dm thanks for the helpful information.

For our outbound to TBS we will be arriving FRA just before 8am and leave for MUC at 7pm, staying at the Sheraton Frankfurt Airport on their day rate (8am-6pm). We'll probably head the the Senator Lounge around 4ish. There's only a 2 hour layover in MUC before we head to TBS. As we're not coming from a high-risk area I don't believe we have to fill out the digital einreiseanmeldung.

Coming back, as Georgia is a high-risk area, and we'll be in DE for over 24 hours, I think we have to fill out the einreiseanmeldung. We arrive in MUC at 730am, fly to FRA arriving at noon and don't depart for the US until 1030am the next day. We have reservations at the Hilton Frankfurt Airport.

I assume, with both our CDC cards with double vaccination and the booster, our CovPass and a PCR test taken the day before we leave Tbilisi, we should be ok to enter to get to the hotels. Going to try to head into Frankfurt on the way home to update our CovPass adding the booster to it at a local Apotheke (can a booster be added to CovPass??).

I'm also assuming, as we are on 1 PNR and none of our layovers are more than 24 hours, LH will check our bag all the way from TBS to ATL.

Again, thank you for your information st8dm
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