When you discuss air travel in Germany....Frankfurt is usually hyped up and noted as the number one airport in the country, and near the top three in Europe itself.
HR (our regional public TV network) brought up this topic about the Frankfurt Airport today.
Back before 2014, it was rare (if ever) that the Frankfurt Airport handled 200,000 passengers in one single day. In 2017, there were 140 days where the passenger traffic crossed the 200k passenger line.
All of this traffic is bringing capability issues within the airport. You can figure roughly thirty days out of each year where holiday travel will occur, and it's strongly recommended that you get to parking at least three hours prior to the flight. I would even go and suggest four hours if this were the couple of days prior to Christmas or New Year's Eve.
All of this is leading to passenger complaints to the airlines.
Some examples of what I've experienced:
1. On hectic days, and trying to get through the border-control deal....it can take up to thirty minutes. The last time I went through....it took two minutes. So it really matters on the time of year that you make a trip.
2. On hectic days and trying to get through the bag security deal....you can anticipate a minimum of forty-five minutes.
3. Trying to eat something at a airport cafe or restaurant on a hectic day? You might be standing there for at least 20 minutes before you get your order turned in.
The airport is in desperate need of more cops, and they are waiting on new recruits to arrive. Just on airport operations personnel.....there are openings for around 2,000 additional folks....which they are having trouble finding them locally.....so they've gone to Greece and Croatia to recruit more workers.
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