This is a huge city - Frankfurt. Its airport is also of considerable size. In terms of passenger traffic, it occupies an honorable third place in Europe. Ahead only London Heathrow and Parisian Charles de Gaulle. Thus, the Frankfurt am Main International Airport, passing through itself more than fifty-three million passengers a year, is ahead of the capital's hub, located in Berlin. It can be called the second in Europe. Indeed, in terms of the scale of freight traffic, it is second only to the Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. This air gate of southwestern Germany has many names. Officially, it bears the title Rhine-Main Airport. He also has a double. This is a small airport Frankfurt-Hahn. To understand where you will land, you need to look at the codes. Germany's largest hub has ICAO - EDDF, and IATA - FRA. Some lowcosters arrive in Frankfurt-Hahn, including liners from Russia.
Where is it located?
Germany's largest hub is locatedjust twelve kilometers southeast of the center of a city like Frankfurt. The twin airport separates from the big city on the Main as much as one hundred and twenty kilometers. Frankfurt Hahn is located in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is located between the two small towns of Leutzenhuizen and Hunsrück (Hahn). The nearest major city to Frankfurt-Hahn Airport is Koblenz. It is also a convenient landing spot to travel to the dwarf Principality of Luxembourg. But back to the largest airport in Germany, which is located in the federal state of Hesse. Twelve kilometers is a short distance. But still, the issue of transfer to the hotel remains a burning issue for those tourists who fly to Frankfurt for the first time.
Airport: how to get to the city?
Frankfurt Flughafen's convenient location and excellent transport infrastructure eliminate all problems. The city can be reached by train, bus, shuttle, taxi and rental car. After all, the A3 and A5 autobahns pass nearby. A taxi ride will cost you about forty euros. Booking a car online will help to reduce the cost a little. The taxi rank is at the exit of the first terminal. Perhaps the most convenient way to get from Frankfurt Airport to the city is by train. It is called S-Bahn (es-ban). Two lines at once - numbers eight and nine - depart from the first terminal (exit B) with a regularity of fifteen minutes. All of them pass through the main railway station (the third stop, it is called "Frankfurt Hofbahnhof"). The sameregional trains can also reach the city center of Wiesbaden. The cost of one ticket to Frankfurt is 4.35 euros. It must be purchased at the machine (accepts small bills and credit cards) or at the box office. If you get off at the fifth stop from the airport - Hauptwache, you will get to the central pedestrian street of the city.
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Regular trains also run through Frankfurt. The airport of this city is on the list of the most popular stations. Just do not confuse them with electric trains - es-bans. There are different tariffs. Follow through the airport and high-speed trains "Intercity". They are abbreviated as ICE. Using this fast, comfortable, but terribly expensive mode of transport, you can find yourself in Vienna, Zurich, Amsterdam, Brussels, Cologne, Munich and other German cities. To travel around the region, you should take the regional trains, which are designated RE. This way you can get to Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Mainz.
To Frankfurt by bus
This is a very convenient and inexpensive mode of transport, especially since a ticket for it is purchased from the driver. But there is one difficulty. There are a lot of stops around the terminals. Buses depart from them in different directions. If we want to get to the city center, we need route number 61. It is called "Airport - South Station". This bus departs from the first floor of terminal No. 1 (stop 16) and from the second tier of terminal No. 2. The car takes half an hour to the final station. Many airlinesloved Frankfurt. This airport, for example, is preferred by Lufthansa aircraft as a landing site. For the convenience of its customers, this air carrier sends special shuttles to Strasbourg and Heidelberg. It is better to buy tickets in special points of sale, they are more expensive from the driver. About a dozen different bus routes depart from the first terminal to Darmstadt, Schwanheim, Obertshausen and other towns in the region. Many hotels in Germany have a pickup service for customers from the nearest airport. In some hotels it is free, in others it costs up to five euros.
Scheme of Frankfurt Airport
Germany's largest hub was built in 1936 and has since been expanded and modernized several times. Now it has two large terminals and one small one - for VIPs and government delegations. In total, there are five huge halls at the airport, in which it is easy to get lost if you do not look at the signs with pointers. If you know English or German at least at a basic level and be attentive, there should be no problems finding the check-in counter, boarding gate, bus or train stop. The two common terminals are connected by the Skyline monorail inside the building and a free shuttle. This last bus leaves from a special parking lot every ten minutes. Aircraft take four runways. Luggage is automatically sorted.
Who flies to Frankfurt?
Both terminals accept planes of various airlines. If you don't know which stop to get off at - T1 or T2, the Frankfurt Airport timetable will acquaint you with this. It is available online. Immediately behind the entrance you can see the boards, which indicate the flights, the companies that make them, and the numbers of the check-in counters. Lufthansa, a trustworthy German carrier, has made Frankfurt Airport its "headquarters". Its subsidiary Lufthansa CityLine is also based here. In addition to Lufthansa, airliners from Condor Flygdinst, Eurowings, SunExpress Jemani, TYUFly, Ex L Airways Germany and other German and foreign carriers arrive at Frankfurt Airport.
Safety
March 2, 2011 was a black day for a city like Frankfurt. The airport, whose photo was suddenly replicated by the largest media, turned out to be the scene of a terrorist attack. A German citizen, ethnic Albanian and staunch Islamist, twenty-one-year-old Arid Uka shot American soldiers who had flown in from Afghanistan. The terrorist was helped by the fact that he worked at the airport. The soldiers were unarmed and in civilian clothes. They got off the plane and got on the bus. Arid Uka also made his way there and opened fire. As a result of the attack, two people were killed and the same number were injured. The attacker was detained when he tried to hide in the airport building. This event served as a lesson for the administration of the hub. Now the security measures may seem excessive to some. You need to arrive early for the flight asqueues always accumulate in front of the metal detector.
