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Connecting flight in Frankfurt from San Francisco

I'm starting to get concerned about my layover time so I wanted to throw this out there to see if anyone has experienced this and if you have any suggestions. I am flying to Rome the end of August from San Francisco changing planes in Frankfurt. Our layover is 1.5 hours. I had originally thought that 1.5 hours would be plenty of time since we don't change airlines just planes. I have flown into Europe many times in the years past but now I hear they have a new system. We are flying on Concord and booked our flights months ago. At the time this was the longest layover we could get on this airline. Has anyone flown through Frankfurt recently? I'm reading horror stories about the amount of time and people missing flights. Can anyone give me their experience? I'm not sure we can even change our flights and Even if we do their other flight has the same layover.

I appreciate any feed back you can give on your experience and/or advice.

Thank you

Posted by
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Just to be clear, you will be flying on CONDOR, correct?

Can't help with the connection. Frankfurt is typically my final destination. But I would advise bringing whatever pocket snacks make you happy. I just completed an SFO - FRA round trip with Condor; I've never had such bad food on any airline before or anywhere else, for that matter. Otherwise, everything was great.

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My daughter just transited FRA on her way to Venice. Her exact report from yesterday:
"No problem at all in Frankfurt. A million kiosks to pre-scan yourself for the biometrics before passport control. Took two minutes. Had an hour an (sic) a half between landing and connecting flight departure and cleared biometrics, passport control, customs, and security with time to spare before boarding started. Plane land to gate in 45 minutes total."