Based on the hype to test incoming passengers for the Covid-19 virus....the FRAPORT (the Frankfurt Airport) folks are renovating an area between Terminal One (the old terminal) and the underground subway area. Basically where the shops and deli area is located.
Our regional news folks covered this in detail.
The two facilities already in operation? Well....they will continue on, and are commercial operations (you pay for the tests to 'exit' the country, if your destination is not a EU member).
How this mandatory facility will operate? The operation instructions have yet to be written down. Who will pay? Based on the Bavarian 'model'....they simply passed the cost factor onto the health insurance companies, with facility operating cost being covered to some degree by the government.
Getting the health insurance companies to increase cost in 2021? No one says much but you'd have to assume that the companies will pass this testing cost to the consumers, and you can assume another ten to twenty Euro a month will be assessed to people.
So this brings up the curious question.....will Germans who don't go out of the country get aggravated paying for the Germans who do take the risks and leave the country for a vacation? My humble guess is that this will come as a topic by spring of 2021.
The final part of the airport expansion into the testing? Well, this location is at Terminal One....NOT Terminal Two. So you could fly in (internationally) at Terminal Two, collect your bag, and just leave the airport entirely. The mandatory nature of this testing? Yet to be seen.
Most people....at the end of a 12-hour flight, don't want a long process of entering the home-country. I don't see people volunteering to exit one terminal area, collect your bags, getting to the second terminal, and waiting in line for two hours to get tested before they can exit the airport.
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