Stuttgart Airport Terminal 2

This page exists mainly to tell you something a terminal page usually does not have to: you cannot be met at Stuttgart Terminal 2, because Terminal 2 handles departures only. There is no arrivals hall in the building. Terminals 1, 3 and 4 take the arriving flights.

That catches people out in a specific and predictable way. You fly out of Stuttgart with Lufthansa, you check in at Terminal 2, you remember Terminal 2 — and a fortnight later you tell whoever is collecting you to meet you at Terminal 2. They wait outside a departures hall while you stand in Terminal 1 or 3 wondering where they are.

For a departure, Terminal 2 is exactly where you want dropping: it is the Lufthansa and Star Alliance check-in, in the middle of the row, under the same roof as Terminals 1 and 3. The forecourt gives eight free minutes, which is enough to unload but not to see somebody through the door.

On the way out, your driver drops you at the Terminal 2 kerb, at the check-in you are actually using. On the way back, you are met inside the arrivals hall of whichever terminal your flight lands at — taken from the flight number, which is the only reliable source for it.

This is a good illustration of why we ask for a flight number rather than a terminal. A terminal on a booking form is a memory of a previous trip about as often as it is a fact about this one.

If you have arranged to be met at Terminal 2, the fix is a short walk: the terminals stand in a row along one road, five to ten minutes end to end, with a free shuttle every ten to fifteen minutes. Nobody is stranded. But it is an avoidable ten minutes with luggage, and avoiding it is the entire reason this page says so up front.