Frankfurt Terminal Connecting Flight in Terminal 1

The United flight from Newark arrives in Terminal 1 / Concourse A.

The building that houses the A concourse also has the Z concourse, which is the floor above the A concourse. When you arrive on a flight from an out-of-Schengen airport, which Newark is, you normally go to a gate in the Z concourse. (I believe buses from an aircraft the deplanes on the tarmac go to a gate on the lower, A level, of the building, but you can't get into the rest of the A concourse without going through passport control.) I don't know how you would get from a Tarmac bus gate to the Z level. I'm sure a worker on the bus or at the gate will be instructing passenger who need the Z level on how to do it.

To walk between Concourses Z and C, you would have to go out of security and into the "public" part of T1, which would require you to go through Schengen immigration (passport control) and then back through Schengen emigration (another passport control).

To avoid going through passport control you will have to stay in the part of the airport that is called "airside". You can do this by taking the rooftop Skyline shuttle train between the concourses.

Each car on the Skyline is designated either "landside" (inside Schengen) or "airside" (outside Schengen) and the doors only open to the landside or airside of a Skyline station. The C concourse only has airside, so you can't access concourse C from a landside car.

The Skyline station for the A/Z concourses has a landside part connected to A and an airside part connected to Z.

That is a narrow time window although Eastbound flights arrive often before time due to tail winds. I recommend to inform the crew cabin about your travel plan.

Make yourself familiar with transferring at FRA and the map of the airport.

Concourse A is long. I guess that your plane will dock in the front part until A25 due to size of plane Your options are walking or taking partly the Skyline train (see pier change) on transferring page and level 4 in map.

Rest is well descibed imo by Lee.

Thank You So Much Lee and Mark !

So let me repeat this back to make sure I understand correctly.
From my search online It looks like the last UA960 arrived at A22 and the LH686 departed C4.

So assuming I have a similar setup ....

After I deplane I make my way from A22 to the Z Level.
At the Z level I look for the Skyline Shuttle and only get on AIRSIDE car to the C Concourse.
From there I go to Gate C4.

Any ideas how long that should take ?
Are there any security points along this way ?

Thanks,

David

It looks like the last UA960 arrived at A22 and the LH686 departed C4.

So assuming I have a similar setup ....

After I deplane I make my way from A22 to the Z Level.

I don't know why, but they are lying!

A22 cannot possible be the arrival gate for a flight, like UA960, from the US. A22 is a gate for in-Schengen flights. But Z22 is a gate for arrivals from the US. It's upstairs from A22 and shares a jetway with A22. When you come off the plane on the A/Z 22 jetway, you can go straight to the A level or up stairs to the Z level. Depending on if you are coming from a Schengen or non-Schengen country, the door to the A or Z level will be open, the other locked. Coming from the US, the door to the A concourse will be locked; you will be directed up to the Z concourse. From there you will find signs to the Skyline and board an airside car of the shuttle.

I guess nobody is lying. Maybe daberk was looking up the geo tracker of the airplane on a map and this ended at place #22 at FRA?

Net walking time (without any checks / stops) from gate A/Z 22 to C4 I assume 20-25 minutes.

The arrival times are calculated plane's arrival at gate.

Be aware that you have to be at the departure gate 15-20 minutes before departure.

Page with waiting times at checkpoints.

Todays UAL 960 arrived 35 minutes late, per flightaware at. gate A20. Shows LH 686 departing from Terminal 1

Did you buy this as single ticket?
The reason I ask is I could not get the UAL site to produce a solution that had flt 960 as the first leg of a EWR-FRA-TLV

( Perhaps on your actual date they do?)

Had you flown today you would have had ~30 minutes between flights..