Hamburg Airport Terminal 1
Oneworld and SkyTeam carriers — and a terminal that shares its baggage reclaim with the one next door, which makes a late terminal change cost almost nothing.
The price is agreed before you book. No meter, no surge pricing.
- Arrivals
- Ground floor, shared baggage hall
- Free stop at the kerb
- 10 min
- min waiting included
- 60 min
- Road access
- A7 · B433
Coming out of this terminal
Terminal 1 takes the Oneworld and SkyTeam carriers. Arrivals and baggage reclaim are on the ground floor, and this is where Hamburg does something no other German airport with two terminals does: Terminals 1 and 2 share a single baggage hall. You do not reclaim in your terminal and then walk to the other. Both arrivals areas open onto the same space.
A level above it, the Airport Plaza links the two buildings with the shops and food court. That is the landside route between them and it is a longer walk — but for an arriving passenger it is largely irrelevant, because the reunion has already happened downstairs.
The kerb is on Level 1, outside departures, and gives ten free minutes. Note that it is the departures level, not arrivals: a car meeting you at the door is a car on the level above the one you walked out of. Car parks P2 and P4 are the nearest, from around €4 per half hour.
Where your driver stands
Your driver waits in arrivals with a name sign, taken from your flight number. At Hamburg this is a low-drama promise to make, and it is worth being honest about that rather than dressing it up: the shared hall means the failure mode other airports have simply does not occur here.
Where the service earns its price at Hamburg is not the meeting. It is the journey afterwards — south of the Elbe where the crossings are the bottleneck, out into the port and industrial districts the network barely serves, or on the run to Lübeck, Kiel, Bremen or the coast where there is no direct service at all.
If you land at a different terminal
Landing at Terminal 2 instead of Terminal 1 costs you nothing at all here, which is not true at any other German airport on this site. The two share a baggage hall, so you and your driver end up in the same room regardless. This is genuinely the easiest German airport to be collected from, and we would rather say so than manufacture a problem to solve.
FAQ
Questions about this terminal
Do Terminals 1 and 2 at Hamburg share a baggage hall?
Yes — one baggage reclaim hall on the ground floor serves both, with the Airport Plaza linking them a level above. It is the reason a terminal change at Hamburg is a non-event compared with Frankfurt, Munich or Berlin.
Where is the pickup zone at Hamburg Airport?
The Kiss & Fly zone is outside the departures hall on Level 1 — the level above arrivals — with ten free minutes. Car parks P2 and P4 are nearest to the terminals, from about €4 per half hour.
Which airlines use Hamburg Terminal 1?
Oneworld and SkyTeam carriers. Terminal 2 takes Star Alliance, including Lufthansa. Since both share a baggage hall, the distinction matters far less to an arriving passenger than it does at other airports.
Should I take the S1 into Hamburg instead?
If you are one person with a bag going to the city centre, yes — the S1 runs from under the terminals to the Hauptbahnhof in about twenty-five minutes, frequently, for a fraction of the price. A car is the better answer for groups, for the districts the network barely reaches, and for the run out to Lübeck, Kiel or the coast.
Routes
Transfers from this airport
| Destination | Distance | Journey time | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ahrensburg | 20 km | 32 min | €57 |
| Pinneberg | 22 km | 25 min | €60 |
| Wedel | 23 km | 38 min | €62 |
| Cruise Center Steinwerder | 31 km | 39 min | €75 |
| Seevetal | 33 km | 37 min | €78 |
| Elmshorn | 34 km | 35 min | €79 |
| Buxtehude | 41 km | 57 min | €91 |
| Geesthacht | 43 km | 47 min | €94 |
| Buchholz in der Nordheide | 46 km | 49 min | €99 |
| Winsen (Luhe) | 47 km | 47 min | €100 |
| Neumünster | 59 km | 49 min | €119 |
| Lübeck Hauptbahnhof | 77 km | 1h 16 | €148 |
| Lübeck | 79 km | 1h 22 | €151 |
| Lüneburg | 79 km | 1h 07 | €151 |
What is included
The same on every route, in every class, at every hour.
Fixed price
Agreed in full before you book. Traffic, tolls and airport charges are already in it — the meter does not exist.
Flight tracking
We watch the flight number you give us. Land early or three hours late and the pickup moves with you, at no extra cost.
Meet and greet
Your driver waits inside arrivals holding a name sign, helps with the luggage and walks you to the car.
60 minutes waiting
Free waiting time after touchdown — enough for passport control and baggage reclaim without anyone watching a clock.
Door to door
From the exact address to the exact address. Not to the nearest station, and not to a rank at the end of the road.
Child seats
Infant, child and booster seats specified at booking. They are not charged as an extra.
Free cancellation
Cancel up to 24 hours before pickup at no charge. Plans change; that is not something to be fined for.
Professional drivers
Licensed, insured, English- and German-speaking, and briefed on your journey before they set off.
