Over 2 hours to make Frankfurt Airport Connection! April, 2023 4K

How much time do you need to make connections at Frankfurt Airport? Well over 2 hours!
This video was my connection experience arriving from Vancouver taking a connection to Vienna Austria.

The flight was delayed landing, then because of no gate availability taxied and parked in a remote area where we had to bus to the terminal. Going through immigration, security and the walk to the gate meant arriving only just before the flight started boarding.

I am a fast walker with a backpack only and no issues at immigration or security. Also it was not overly busy either at immigration or security. Others from my flight took longer to get to their connections and some didn’t make it in time.

If you are booking connections thru Frankfurt, leave a minimum of 3 hours between flights.

April 21, 2023 Friday
Inbound flight: Lufthansa LH493 YVR to FRA scheduled arrival 10:55a
Outbound flight: Austrian OS210 FRA to VIE scheduled departure 1:40p

Time scheduled to make connection: 2 hrs 45 minutes.
Actual time needed: 2 hrs 20 minutes (10:55a to 1:15p)

Timeline:
10:55am Scheduled arrival
11:14am Actual arrival (19 minutes late)
11:39am Arrival at apron: no gate was available so had to taxi and wait 25 minutes

Video Timecode:
00:00 - Begin to deplane after waiting for stairs and buses (11:56am)
05:35 - Bus leaves for terminal 1 (12:01pm)
13:09 - Bus arrived level 1 terminal 1 (12:08pm)
14:58 - Arrive immigration (12:12pm)
17:01 - Through immigration in 14 minutes (not overly busy) (12:26pm)
21:06 - Arrive at boarding pass control (12:39pm)
22:46 - Arrive at security checkpoint (12:48pm)
23:18 - Thru security walk to A34 Gate (15 minute wait for security, not overly busy) (1:03pm)
30:46 - Arrive Gate A34 for connection, 5 minutes before boarding started (1:15pm)

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