Guides
What does not fit on a route page
15 pieces on the questions people genuinely ask before booking — each spanning more than one airport, and each built on the same data as the route pages.
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Frankfurt Airport Terminal 3: what changed, and where your driver waits
Frankfurt is still a two-terminal airport. They are just not the two terminals anybody remembers.
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Frankfurt-Hahn is not near Frankfurt. It is near the Mosel.
The name is a marketing decision from the 1990s. The geography is the useful part.
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Private transfer or the ICE? An honest comparison.
Germany has one of the best rail networks in Europe. Pretending otherwise would not survive first contact with a customer.
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Changing airports in Germany: what a Flughafenwechsel actually involves
It has its own German word — Flughafenwechsel — which tells you how routinely it happens.
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Four German airports that are not where their name says
One of them was taken to court over it. The other three are still doing it.
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Six airports in one state: how to choose in North Rhine-Westphalia
No other German state has six commercial airports. Most travellers only know two of them.
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Munich, Nuremberg or Memmingen: arriving in Bavaria
Bavaria is the largest German state, and its three airports are 5, 28.5 and 110 km from the city they name.
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Berlin, Leipzig/Halle or Dresden: arriving in eastern Germany
All three have a railway station in or under the building. That is the honest starting point.
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Trade fair weeks: the one time a German city runs out of taxis
Germany runs the largest trade fair circuit in the world, and every stop on it has the same week-long transport failure.
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From the gate to the city centre at all nineteen German airports
At most of these airports the train wins. We would rather tell you which ones than sell you a car you do not need.
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Uber, Bolt, FreeNow and the German taxi: what actually picks you up
Uber exists here. It is a different product from the one on your phone at home, and the reason is a law rather than a business decision.
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Hamburg, Hannover and Bremen: three airports for one flat corner of Germany
All three are unusually close to their own city centres. That is exactly why the interesting journeys are the ones that leave.
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Stuttgart and Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden: the two airports for the south-west
One is a business airport in a basin. The other is a low-cost field with a spa town's name and the Black Forest behind it.
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Munich and Memmingen for the Alps: two airports, one mountain range
Most people who land at either of these are not going to a city. They are going into the mountains, and the mountains have no railway station.
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Airport shuttles in Germany: which ones are real, and when to take them
A shuttle is a shared bus on a timetable. Eight German airports have a real one — and at three of them you should take it.
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