Originally Posted by
Light Travellers
It used to be reliably fast going through passport control in Berlin but our last trip in October took us over an hour.
A Turkish flight landed before us which made it extremely busy.
2 weeks ago I spoke to someone arriving on an EU passport. The automatic gates were closed and was apparently taking up to 2 hours to get through.
Providing the machines are open for residents and EU passports and you don't have busy flights before yours I expect you would make it in good time.
I think the 08:something out of LHR gets to BER just around a TK and a QR flight, so if late (or they are early) the non-EU line can be challenging.
Originally Posted by
Rolos
And remember for anyone with a German residency card - even though most of the signs have not been updated, you can use the EU EasyPass electronic gates at Frankfurt even with non-EU passports now.
Technically with certain passports you can also just register for EasyPass even without a residency card. US for instance, from first hand experience. I'm sure the vast majority of non-EU using that system are resident card holders as the Bundespolizei staff are regularly bemused by someone not possessing one.