Frankfurt Airport

Frankfurt Airport is one of the busiest in Europe and the home base of the German national carrier Lufthansa.

The Airport is huge and distances can be extremely long when for example arriving at the internal train station that connects to all cities with comfortable, but extremely expensive high speed trains called ICE.

Departure lounges pride a modern and expensive design with loads of light and monitors that display the wealth of the still 4rth largest economy in the world.

Frankfurt Airport has established itself as the prime German destination for all International Airlines as it is one of the most central points in Germany with even the legendary A1 motorway right next to it what makes it an ideal place for all those, who come for driving without any speed limits.

Going up to 200 kilometers and more per hour is now only possible in Germany where cars and motorways are build for that.

The staff at the airport speaks good English, but real friendliness can not be expected everywhere. Of course, some turn out as extremely polite whilst in particular the Lufthansa crew has strong tendency to be very arrogant despite the poor state of their services.

Also when providing check in services for smaller carriers they tend to be very fussy even about a tiny bit of excess luggage.

Also the privatized security staff comes across as partly aggressive and hysterical at times.

Negative are also the extremely high prices for parking, food and drinks.

A small bottle of coke out of a machine can cost as much as 3 Euro compared to 0,60 cent in a supermarket.

Impressive inside the large Frankfurt Airport complex is the large selection of shops and restaurants though the quality is mostly way below other European and even some so called third world countries.

Except for it`s excellent connectivity Frankfurt Airport can unfortunately not really convince and there are other airports in Germany that are much nicer at every level.