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#257485 by JAT74L
04 Jan 2009, 17:27
Hi all,

I've got about 4 hours to kill at FRA this Sat and will be flying *A biz class arriving on LH from Edinburgh and departing on LOT to Warsaw.

Any info on which lounge etc. . ?

Regards

John
#463521 by mike-smashing
04 Jan 2009, 21:26
As LOT are *A, they will share the same lounge facilities as LH.

If you have *A Gold status, you can use a Senator Lounge (slightly nicer food and drink), otherwise, you're in the LH Business Lounge.

There are LH lounges dotted all over the Terminal 1 (the LH/*A) in FRA.

You'll be making a Schengen to non-Schengen transit in FRA, so expect to go through German border control in FRA.

Depending on your arrival gate and the LOT departure gate, this could include either a simple pass through German border control, down some stairs and into the Schengen area, or a nightmarish trek which is close enough to going landside and back airside again, including passing through a security screening point.

It really is a toss-up what you might get. You may even have to through additional security screening at the gate itself, depending on the gate. It seems that the arriving/departing pax streams and sterile/non-sterile areas at FRA are a bit of a moveable feast.

So, head for the appropriate pier/gate area for your connecting flight and find the LH lounge complex in that gate area. Get the Schengen to non-Schengen crossing out of the way as soon as you arrive.

The signage is totally variable, from clear and easy to understand, to confusing and woeful.

I used to transit FRA a lot in 04/05 and grew to loathe the place, to the extent that I would try and transit through MUC in preference, and once Swiss joined *A, I switched most of my flying which would involve a connection in Germany to LX and connected through ZRH.

Mike
#463522 by Kraken
04 Jan 2009, 21:53
I'll echo Mike's comments about the sterile/non-sterile areas at FRA being a right minefield. I've flown from FRA a number of times and got caught out the first time (liquids bought at what I assumed was an airside location, as after the main security checkpoint, confiscated at the secondary security check just before the gate area).

What does annoy me is that Fraport (operator of FRA) must know this happens all the time, yet there are no signs / notices warning of this.

James
#463540 by JAT74L
05 Jan 2009, 10:00
Good god!

I'm so glad I asked!!!!

Regards

John
#463589 by mike-smashing
05 Jan 2009, 15:12
quote:Originally posted by Kraken
What does annoy me is that Fraport (operator of FRA) must know this happens all the time, yet there are no signs / notices warning of this.


The impression I get of Fraport is that they couldn't care less in that sort of 'Well, the planes still take off, ja?' way, and that pax are just inconvenient SLF to be equally inconvenienced.

Seriously. For all their faults, BAA are a paragon of pleasantness and virtue compared to the attitude of Fraport. We should consider ourselves lucky.

Mike
Virgin Atlantic

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