The original post: /r/travel by /u/pozzan on 2024-11-13 14:01:38.

I posted this in r/TravelHacks some weeks ago about layovers in Frankfurt, and thought it would be interesting to share in this sub about my experience connecting there. But for starters: I never thought, as a traveller, that I could hate an airport so much.

For starters - remote positions for a 747 is such a dumb idea. Arriving there and a tow truck broke on our assigned gate. Not a great start. Then comes endless walking and confusing signage, coming back to where you started, the same concourse having Schengen and non-Schengen flights. I even exited the security zone by mistake and there were no signs whatsoever about this.

Then comes very rude and unhelpful staff: security agents speaking German even when you say out loud you do not speak the language. One agent before passport control pretending he wasn’t listening to what I said and acting like I was stupid. I have not seen one single smile or politeness in those people.

The mice! Right by a Lufthansa lounge, a mouse comes off the wall, grabs a piece of food from the floor and comes back. Or just casually crossing one side of the corridor to the other. Are the mice traps working? Guess not.

I’ve been to Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Madrid, Milan and all of those make sense, have centralised passport/security controls, and helpful personnel. It’s a shame that Lufthansa (which seems to own that place given how many flights they operate) allows this to happen. Not to mention the multiple passport/security checkpoints which allow you to pass them twice. It’s just a massive loophole.