Hannover Airport Terminal C

Terminal C is the biggest of Hannover’s three buildings and takes most of the charter traffic along with arrivals from outside the EU. Eight gates have jet bridges, and it sits at the far end of the shared landside road.

Non-EU arrivals is the operative phrase. It means full passport control, and on a busy charter bank it means a queue — the gap between wheels down and walking out of the door is longer at Terminal C than anywhere else at this airport, sometimes considerably. Anyone meeting a flight here should be planning against the exit time, not the landing time.

Which runs straight into Hannover’s three free minutes at the kerb, the shortest stop in this network, with car parks P4, P5 and P6 out of use for works into late 2026. Terminal C does at least have a landside bar, which is the practical place to wait rather than circling.

Your driver waits inside the Terminal C arrivals area with a name sign, and the flight is tracked from the number you gave at booking so the wait starts when you actually land. Free waiting time after touchdown is there precisely to absorb a long passport queue.

This is the single clearest pairing of facts on any terminal page here: the slowest exit at the airport with the shortest free stop at the kerb. A car with a meter, or a friend in a car park, is exposed to both. A fixed price is exposed to neither.

Terminals A and C stand at opposite ends of the same short road, so a change between them is a walk of a few minutes outside. It is the easiest kind of terminal mix-up to recover from — the harder problem at Hannover is always the clock at the kerb, not the distance between buildings.