If you ever find yourself on a sector that transits Frankfurt, make sure you get all the boarding cards for all your onward sectors! Aer Lingus said they couldn’t give us our FRA-SIN boarding pass, and said “just go to the transfer desk in Frankfurt”. Trouble is, there is no transfer desk airside in Frankfurt, and the security people won’t let you past without a boarding pass!
Rog and I had to cross the border to get landside in order to go to the Qantas check-in counter to get a boarding card, then cross back over the border again — it’s a shame that our passport stamps don’t have the time on them, as I’m sure we could lay claim to one of the quickest visits to the EU and Germany ever!
If you’re flying First or Business and your flight goes from a “D” gate in Terminal 2, you can get to the lounge without going through security and get a boarding pass from there. If only we’d known that — we would have saved three laps of Frankfurt Airport looking for a non-existent transfer desk!
Of course, we’d have no funny story to tell either… 🙂
Crossed Wires 