Frankfurt Airport Terminal 1

Terminal 1 does not have an arrivals hall. It has three — A, B and C — and which one you walk out of is set by the concourse your aircraft parked at, not by your airline or your ticket. A Lufthansa flight can deliver you to any of them. This is the single thing that makes Terminal 1 harder to be collected from than it looks on a map, and it is why the terminal on your booking is not enough information on its own.

Frankfurt also has a real, signed Meeting Point, which most German airports do not: it is on the lower level beside Arrival B-1, and the overhead signage picks it up once you are through the exit doors. If a plan ever falls apart here — a dead phone, a hall you did not expect — that is the place to walk to, and it is worth knowing before you need it.

Terminal 1 sits directly over the long-distance and regional railway stations, so the through traffic in the building is enormous and the arrivals halls are busy at every hour a flight lands. The forecourt outside is Kiss & Ride zones P35 and P39.

Your driver takes the hall from the flight number you give at booking, not from the terminal, and is standing inside it with a name sign before you clear the exit. Not at a rank, not in a car park, and not on the phone from the forecourt telling you to come outside.

That distinction costs us more and it is the whole point of the service at this airport. Terminal 1 is a building where "meet me outside" can mean three different kerbs, several hundred metres apart, on a level you have to find first.

If the airline moves your flight to Terminal 3, nothing on your side changes — we are tracking the flight number, so we know before you do and the driver simply meets you there. If you go looking for us the other way round, the SkyLine people mover connects the two in about eight minutes and runs every two to three minutes between 04:00 and 23:00, with a shuttle bus outside those hours. Both are free.