EasyPass-RTP Enrollment
Jul 29, 2018, 4:22 pm
#16
Join Date: Sep 2009
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I applied in Dusseldorf but here is the info on the website for Frankfurt. Here is the link to the site with the listed airports: https://www.easypass.de/EasyPass/EN/...pass_node.html
Frankfurt Airport, terminal 1, hall B, level 3, stairs to skyline train
Opening hours:
06:30 - 21:30
Core hours:
08:00 - 18:00
Phone: 0049 (0) 69 3400-5147
E-mail: [email protected]
Frankfurt Airport, terminal 1, hall B, level 3, stairs to skyline train
Opening hours:
06:30 - 21:30
Core hours:
08:00 - 18:00
Phone: 0049 (0) 69 3400-5147
E-mail: [email protected]
Jul 29, 2018, 10:42 pm
#17
Join Date: Sep 2006
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So I finally have a chance to be landside in FRA, and I have an exceedingly dumb question... where is the enrollment center? I looked around for maybe 20 minutes tonight before giving up. I found a Bundespolizei office next to the security checkpoint into Z from T1 Hall A (level 3), but it seemed to be closed (was ~19.30). Hours online claimed until 21.30 but "core hours" were only until 18.00.
Reading the comment thread makes it seem like that was wrong, but I didn't find anything else likely-looking, hmm..
Reading the comment thread makes it seem like that was wrong, but I didn't find anything else likely-looking, hmm..
The place where I signed up was down by the check in desks. It was like a separate little building inside the check in hall.
Jul 30, 2018, 2:44 am
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If that is upstairs, that is the wrong place. I went there first and you had to get buzzed in the officer who answered the door wasn't too happy -- not rude, just "why is this tourist bothering me"
The place where I signed up was down by the check in desks. It was like a separate little building inside the check in hall.
The place where I signed up was down by the check in desks. It was like a separate little building inside the check in hall.
Jul 30, 2018, 6:16 pm
#19
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Yes indeed, that sounds like where I tried to go. It was after 18.00 so I think it was just closed; I didn't try knocking on the locked door very hard because it seemed awkward. The website says "level 3" which is "upstairs" there, hence my confusion. You're saying a hut down by the check-in counters... is it over to the right (facing toward airside) by the LH F doors?
Jul 31, 2018, 2:16 am
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Level 3 is the checkin/departures level. The T1B booth closes at 6pm: https://www.easypass.de/EasyPass/EN/...pass_node.html
Jul 31, 2018, 4:37 am
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Level 3 is the checkin/departures level. The T1B booth closes at 6pm: https://www.easypass.de/EasyPass/EN/...pass_node.html
Aug 16, 2018, 7:16 pm
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I forgot to follow up on this - I did finally find it but only after asking the LH checkin agent where to find it.
I clearly don't know my way around FRA landside well enough. It is indeed on the mezzanine (not departures) level, but there is a separate area on Level 3 which can only be accessed from deeper within the departures hall than the ticket counters. You have to start in the B hall and go all the way back (towards the runways) and turn left to find the escalator with the sign for Terminal 2 (doesn't even say "via SkyTrain"). Go up to Level 3 and then turn right to find the Bundespolizei office there. It is not in the hut in A departures where it used to be; it has moved.
Registration was quick and painless, but I did not attempt to use it on my way out -- officer said "one to two hours" and I didn't feel like cutting it close.
I clearly don't know my way around FRA landside well enough. It is indeed on the mezzanine (not departures) level, but there is a separate area on Level 3 which can only be accessed from deeper within the departures hall than the ticket counters. You have to start in the B hall and go all the way back (towards the runways) and turn left to find the escalator with the sign for Terminal 2 (doesn't even say "via SkyTrain"). Go up to Level 3 and then turn right to find the Bundespolizei office there. It is not in the hut in A departures where it used to be; it has moved.
Registration was quick and painless, but I did not attempt to use it on my way out -- officer said "one to two hours" and I didn't feel like cutting it close.
Nov 6, 2018, 7:51 pm
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I forgot to follow up on this - I did finally find it but only after asking the LH checkin agent where to find it.
I clearly don't know my way around FRA landside well enough. It is indeed on the mezzanine (not departures) level, but there is a separate area on Level 3 which can only be accessed from deeper within the departures hall than the ticket counters. You have to start in the B hall and go all the way back (towards the runways) and turn left to find the escalator with the sign for Terminal 2 (doesn't even say "via SkyTrain"). Go up to Level 3 and then turn right to find the Bundespolizei office there. It is not in the hut in A departures where it used to be; it has moved.
Registration was quick and painless, but I did not attempt to use it on my way out -- officer said "one to two hours" and I didn't feel like cutting it close.
I clearly don't know my way around FRA landside well enough. It is indeed on the mezzanine (not departures) level, but there is a separate area on Level 3 which can only be accessed from deeper within the departures hall than the ticket counters. You have to start in the B hall and go all the way back (towards the runways) and turn left to find the escalator with the sign for Terminal 2 (doesn't even say "via SkyTrain"). Go up to Level 3 and then turn right to find the Bundespolizei office there. It is not in the hut in A departures where it used to be; it has moved.
Registration was quick and painless, but I did not attempt to use it on my way out -- officer said "one to two hours" and I didn't feel like cutting it close.
If you are in T1 you will have to look for signs to T2, and go up one level. If you go up another level you will be at the sky train to T2.
May 23, 2019, 7:39 am
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May 23, 2019, 8:46 am
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May 24, 2019, 1:38 am
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May 25, 2019, 8:30 am
#28
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So I had an open jaw trip coming up -- Berlin and Prague. I thought I'd fly into Berlin and use my Easypass-RTP. Well, Delta's flight (JFK-TXL) arrives at gate A01 which has its own little passport check area and no machines -- just two guys in a booth (one EU, one everybody else) 
Flying into FRA this summer so I'll use it then.
Flying into FRA this summer so I'll use it then.
May 25, 2019, 9:03 pm
#29
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So I had an open jaw trip coming up -- Berlin and Prague. I thought I'd fly into Berlin and use my Easypass-RTP. Well, Delta's flight (JFK-TXL) arrives at gate A01 which has its own little passport check area and no machines -- just two guys in a booth (one EU, one everybody else)
Flying into FRA this summer so I'll use it then.
Flying into FRA this summer so I'll use it then.
May 29, 2019, 10:21 pm
#30
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: San Francisco, CA
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Looking for feedback if you all find it valuable to have the EasyPASS-RTP.
The reason I ask is... with a US passport you still need to wait for an officer to unlock the gates and give you a stamp it seems.
I get saving a bit of line getting to the passport control, but with priority line is that really worth having to deal with the line helpers and trying to insist you are at the right line?
Then potentially waiting within the gate for someone to open it and stamp your passport?
Seems to me like the system isn't streamlined enough. Again this just what I am currently seeing but would love your thoughts.
The reason I ask is... with a US passport you still need to wait for an officer to unlock the gates and give you a stamp it seems.
I get saving a bit of line getting to the passport control, but with priority line is that really worth having to deal with the line helpers and trying to insist you are at the right line?
Then potentially waiting within the gate for someone to open it and stamp your passport?
Seems to me like the system isn't streamlined enough. Again this just what I am currently seeing but would love your thoughts.