DUS queues?
 

Departing on a DUS-CDG-BKK flight on Saturday June 25th. Wondering if anyone can share recent experience regarding checkin or security queues at Düsseldorf Airport.

On the 15th at 8.00 am 10 minutes with priority

Saturday has usually much longer queues and thus waiting times.

I myself queued on June 15 at 3:30 pm for 12 minutes at B (without priorirty, which was not open).

A colleague flew on June 11 (Saturday around 2 pm and queued for up to 2 hours). You can walk between terminals A/B/C airside, so take secruity with the shorter lines. B is usually the fastest from my experience, C comes with a lot of charter flights last.

Note that NRW state school vacations start this weekend so on Saturday June 25 DUS will be overrun by holiday crowds in every possible checkpoint.

I am reminded of my trip to DUS last year where I came across this massive queuing area …

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Seems to be very variable then. Not sure how 2021 is a good comparison as things are quite different. I mean I also flew from DUS when covid in Germany was very high and I waited for 1 minute.

Recent reviews on Google maps show lots of complaints but also a few people saying it was very quick.

I have a flight at 1015 next Thursday... any guesses as to how it will be? I would hope if there are queues in the early morning they will be cleared by 8-ish... I was planning to arrive at 0830 but not sure if that will be ok...

Will be probably one of the worst weekends of the year. Two years no real summer vacation due to corona restrictions and now understaffed airports. Plan with a lot of extra time (one to two hours extra depending if you need to drop off luggage or not)

It was a nightmare today and it will probably worse tomorrow. Expect queuing for check in up to two hours and at least one hour for security. It is of course very helpful, that some airlines only open their counters three hours for departure ....

This would be the time I would really consider the ridiculous overpriced VIP-service,

The VIP Service is available as VIP Service Business for Schengen departures (you need to check in yourself, but can skip security via VIP Lounge (45 minutes time in the VIP Lounge) for 180 EUR. The VIP Premium Service is 350 EUR per person incl. two checked pieces of luggage and two hours in the lounge.

Further information could be found here in German : https://www.dus.com/de-de/informieren/vip-service

I have to admit, that I have not experience with this service. And actually, they are on several days already fully booked

Also never did it as I think it's too expensive for what you get. But I read some time ago that someone used it during a strike.

Looks like they had problems with the baggage handling system on 6/25

Thanks for all the feedback.

Actual experience after the fact ... on Saturday June 25th at around 11:30am flying out of terminal B ... there was 1 person in front of me at the security queue. Which was my wife.

Was pretty much a pre-covid experience for me on Thursday 30th too, the only difference being that everyone wore masks on the Sky Train. So I went extra early for nothing (mainly DB's fault because the trains on the Ruhr valley were really delayed on the 29th morning - resulting in compo from DB, but on the 30th they were on time).

Passport control took longer than security. The signage at C gates is not good as lots of Germans joined the manual queue when they meant to go to the e-gates, and lots of non-EU somehow ended up at the e-gates when they didn't mean to go there...

Have a flight from AMS-PRG for early August, but it appears that AMS will be a living hell for the foreseeable future so I am looking for alternatives. I know DUS was having issues recently, but it seems to be infinitely better than AMS. Does EW J get priority security at DUS? The flight in on a Wednesday night, so should not be a peak time???