5am flight from DUB-FRA

corblimey

I'm taking the 5am flight DUB-FRA in the next month or so. No idea what time to arrive at the airport for. It'll be a Sunday morning. I'm thinking arriving by 3.30am would suffice given the time and day, and the fact that it's a European destination. I am flying onwards from FRA so will need to check in baggage, and may have Fast Track (if VF are running the offer again).

Riesen_Meal

Would you not go 2 hours beforehand?

Be there at 3?

41 bus now is throughout the night so you shouldn't have any issues getting there...

VG31

3.30 is plenty of time. It's the first flight of the day. Without checked bags 3.45 to 4 would be fine. Even 4.15 with fast track.

corblimey

Fieldog wrote: »

Would you not go 2 hours beforehand?

Be there at 3?

41 bus now is throughout the night so you shouldn't have any issues getting there...

Are check-in desks even open at 3am? I guess so if there's a flight out at 5, but I can't find anything online about it.

VG31 wrote: »

3.30 is plenty of time. It's the first flight of the day. Without checked bags 3.45 to 4 would be fine. Even 4.15 with fast track.

I'll be staying in Dublin the night before and driving to the airport carpark (Quickpark) that morning before catching a shuttle. I think if I leave my hotel (not booked yet. but leaning towards Premier Inn) at 3am, by the time I've done all that, it should be latest 3.30.

Lex Luthor

Don’t underestimate the travel time from the long stay car parks
I’d be arriving at the car park no later than 3 if it was me

Larbre34

With checked bags I'd be saying 3am. Kip again on the plane with the peace of mind your bags are on board.

corblimey

Ah Janey, really? Hardly worth even booking a room for the night . I'd nearly leave Cork at midnight and drive straight up but I'm not a young man, so that's not a wise decision. Tks all.

you are not going to like the trek from T2 in FRA to the train station if you are not a young man.

VG31

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you are not going to like the trek from T2 in FRA to the train station if you are not a young man.

Lufthansa use Terminal 1 in Frankfurt where the train station is so he won't have that problem. You can just take the Skyline train shuttle between the terminals anyway.

EDIT: He's flying onwards so it doesn't matter.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

90 mins is fine as long as you're actually walking into the airport at 3.30 - you don't want to time it to be there at 3.30 and for the bus not to show up.

Caranica

corblimey wrote: »

Ah Janey, really? Hardly worth even booking a room for the night . I'd nearly leave Cork at midnight and drive straight up but I'm not a young man, so that's not a wise decision. Tks all.

Get the aircoach?

meeeeh

I took that flight in December. I think was in red car park about 1h 45 minutes before, in airport about 1:30 before the flight, had to drop the luggage and still had plenty of time for breakfast. I was flying onwards, I had an hour between flights and that was challenging because I had to go through security again (due to Schengen I think).

VG31

meeeeh wrote: »

I was flying onwards, I had an hour between flights and that was challenging because I had to go through security again (due to Schengen I think).

Passenger's arriving from Ireland at Frankfurt with LH should theoretically not have to go through security.

However since most arrivals are bussed and there is no non Schengen bus connections facility which bypasses security, most of the time you will have to re-clear security.

If you are lucky enough to arrive at a jet bridge gate as I was the last time I was there, you just walk straight into the terminal without having to go through security.

meeeeh

I don't know. I was flying on inside Schengen and there was no check at the end. Flying back I didn't need to go through security in Frankfurt but there was passport check in Dublin. Whatever reason an hour was tight to get from B to A in terminal 1.

Anyway there are no issues in Dublin and I don't think 2 hours is needed.

CelticRambler

meeeeh wrote: »

I was flying onwards, I had an hour between flights and that was challenging because I had to go through security again (due to Schengen I think).

VG31 wrote: »

If you are lucky enough to arrive at a jet bridge gate as I was the last time I was there, you just walk straight into the terminal without having to go through security.

I flew Paris-Frankfurt last year (so fully inside the Schengen zone from start to finish), disembarked via jet bridge and still had to go through full passport control to get to my connecting flight. Massive queue, total mayhem!

VG31

CelticRambler wrote: »

I flew Paris-Frankfurt last year (so fully inside the Schengen zone from start to finish), disembarked via jet bridge and still had to go through full passport control to get to my connecting flight. Massive queue, total mayhem!

If you are flying Schengen to Non-Schengen or Non-Schengen to Schengen you will always have to go through passport control as you are entering/leaving the Schengen area. I was referring to security only.

If you are flying Non-Schengen to Non-Schengen (or Schengen to Schengen) you won't have to go through passport control. I flew DUB-FRA-DME last year and arrived at a B gate and just simply had to walk 5 minutes to my connecting B gate.

CelticRambler

VG31 wrote: »

If you are flying Schengen to Non-Schengen or Non-Schengen to Schengen you will always have to go through passport control as you are entering/leaving the Schengen area. I was referring to security only.

Eh yeah :rolleyes: - hence my contribution of first-hand experience flying Schengen to Schengen where, in theory, there should have been no passport control, but there was. It took me about half an hour to get through (made longer by one of the airport stewards insisting I use the automatic gate despite me telling him that my passport has never worked in those. Sure enough, it failed to work and then he had to get me out of the crowd piling up behind me ... :pac:)

VG31

CelticRambler wrote: »

Eh yeah :rolleyes: - hence my contribution of first-hand experience flying Schengen to Schengen where, in theory, there should have been no passport control, but there was. It took me about half an hour to get through (made longer by one of the airport stewards insisting I use the automatic gate despite me telling him that my passport has never worked in those. Sure enough, it failed to work and then he had to get me out of the crowd piling up behind me ... :pac:)

OK, you just said Paris to Frankfurt so I assumed you were connecting onwards to Dublin.