1 hour connection at FRA
Mar 4, 2020, 2:07 am
#16
Join Date: Jun 2017
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I've had connections at FRA that were scheduled at 1 hour become 20min due to delays and being bussed. And even though I had to go through security and passport control in that case I still made it...
Follow the signs, take advantage of fast track when having a short connection, don't tarry and short connections are doable.
Follow the signs, take advantage of fast track when having a short connection, don't tarry and short connections are doable.
Mar 6, 2020, 4:38 pm
#17
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I've had connections at FRA that were scheduled at 1 hour become 20min due to delays and being bussed. And even though I had to go through security and passport control in that case I still made it...
Follow the signs, take advantage of fast track when having a short connection, don't tarry and short connections are doable.
Follow the signs, take advantage of fast track when having a short connection, don't tarry and short connections are doable.
Mar 6, 2020, 4:48 pm
#18
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I second this. Some people here appear to be afraid of Frankfurt. Frankfurt is a complex airport because it deals with complex situations (International clean and unclean, Schengen, EU, domestic). The US airports would just send you from one terminal to the other and force you to schlep your baggage and clear everything. Frankfurt tries to make it as comfortable as possible. The fact of the matter however is that Frankfurt deals with a high number of legally totally different transfers. Sometimes you need to clear only customs, sometimes only immigration, sometimes customs and immigration and sometimes nothing. And pax on an arriving plane might fall in all of these four categories. And you might come from a clean or from a not so clean origin. All different. If you just rund around blindly, you will have problems. If you follow strictly what is signposted, Frankfurt is very efficient. I go through Frankfurt almost every week and can confirm: It works.
Mar 7, 2020, 5:14 am
#19
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 640
+1
I fail to understand the constant whining of people about FRA. Just follow the signs - can it be more simple than that (and this is valid for every hub airport, at least in Europe and Asia)? Living in VIE, this is the airport I have transited through most and on multiple occasions I have made transfers of less than 30 min perfectly fine.
I fail to understand the constant whining of people about FRA. Just follow the signs - can it be more simple than that (and this is valid for every hub airport, at least in Europe and Asia)? Living in VIE, this is the airport I have transited through most and on multiple occasions I have made transfers of less than 30 min perfectly fine.
