1. No place to sit. 2. Very unfriendly atmosphere. 3. No free internet access. Paid access itself is limited, and at 1 euro for 10 minutes. 4. Not much choice in terms of restaurants or shopping.
I guess you get spoiled after you travel via Singapore a couple of times.
FRA is not too bad. If you keep away from the gates near flights going to India or Africa [ALWAYS crowded] and head straight for a lounge. Of course having a star alliance silver or gold card does help even if you dont fly business class.
And the internet access is far cheaper if you have a laptop with a wifi connection. Oh, the LH business class lounge has a bunch of kiosk PCs that are free to access, but all that runs on them is firefox.
I transit out of FRA often enough that its become fairly familiar territory, and thanks to LH's highly efficient operations, that mean far less time in the air for me than if I'd used singapore airlines to fly stateside (absolute pleasure to fly in, and their economy beats LH's business class, well, at least beats the old style business class LH has on its old 747-400 flying on the MAA <-> FRA route.
But SQ makes a journey stateside at least seven or eight hours longer, with an even worse jetlag. And you often have to spend a whole day in singapore when your flight returns early in the morning and then your connecting flight to most indian cities leaves only at night. Changi has free internet access (on ethernet - wifi is costly) and great three / four hour tours, and Singapore is a great place to spend a day .. but I very much prefer getting back home several hours earlier.
And if you don't like FRA you don't usually have too long a stay there. I often have just about enough time to freshen up and then go straight to the gate for my connecting flight once I get off.
srs (who has over 60K miles this year, another 30..35K in the next two or three months).
for those who are geekly inclined - Not PCs actually, they rather look like thin clients, which by the look of the GUI, are running some kind of unix from a solaris (or maybe linux) server - the MOTIF look of the window decorations makes me think the desktop is solaris's CDE though.
Yes sir! I agree with you totally!
ReplyDeleteReally? I was looking to transit via FRA the next time around. What makes you say that?
ReplyDeleteI second that.
ReplyDelete1. No place to sit.
ReplyDelete2. Very unfriendly atmosphere.
3. No free internet access. Paid access itself is limited, and at 1 euro for 10 minutes.
4. Not much choice in terms of restaurants or shopping.
I guess you get spoiled after you travel via Singapore a couple of times.
FRA is not too bad. If you keep away from the gates near flights going to India or Africa [ALWAYS crowded] and head straight for a lounge. Of course having a star alliance silver or gold card does help even if you dont fly business class.
ReplyDeleteAnd the internet access is far cheaper if you have a laptop with a wifi connection. Oh, the LH business class lounge has a bunch of kiosk PCs that are free to access, but all that runs on them is firefox.
I transit out of FRA often enough that its become fairly familiar territory, and thanks to LH's highly efficient operations, that mean far less time in the air for me than if I'd used singapore airlines to fly stateside (absolute pleasure to fly in, and their economy beats LH's business class, well, at least beats the old style business class LH has on its old 747-400 flying on the MAA <-> FRA route.
But SQ makes a journey stateside at least seven or eight hours longer, with an even worse jetlag. And you often have to spend a whole day in singapore when your flight returns early in the morning and then your connecting flight to most indian cities leaves only at night. Changi has free internet access (on ethernet - wifi is costly) and great three / four hour tours, and Singapore is a great place to spend a day .. but I very much prefer getting back home several hours earlier.
And if you don't like FRA you don't usually have too long a stay there. I often have just about enough time to freshen up and then go straight to the gate for my connecting flight once I get off.
srs (who has over 60K miles this year, another 30..35K in the next two or three months).
for those who are geekly inclined - Not PCs actually, they rather look like thin clients, which by the look of the GUI, are running some kind of unix from a solaris (or maybe linux) server - the MOTIF look of the window decorations makes me think the desktop is solaris's CDE though.