I'm booking flights for next spring for a trip that starts in Switzerland (Lucerne) and ends in Amsterdam. Swiss Airlines has a non-stop from Washington to Zurich so I'm planning for that one (then train to Lucerne), but neither Swiss nor their partners (Lufthansa, primarily) can get me back from Amsterdam without going the "wrong" way first. The best options (schedule wise) change in either Munich or Frankfurt. That's also where we'll go through EES (and hopefully that process will be a well-oiled machine by then). Anyone who has experienced both airports have any thoughts?
Posted by
Lynnwood WA
153 posts
I'd use Munich. In May I arrived via Munich and processing getting my fingerprints and photo was fast and the transfer was easy. Leaving via Frankfurt however was very slow. I was in a line for over an hour. Once there the checking that my fingerprints and photo were on file was quick. It was good that I had more than an hour between flights.
Posted by
Sidney, BC, Canada
1187 posts
Have not been through Munich for many years but would do anything to avoid Frankfurt as the two more recent times I have changed there were nightmares.
Posted by
Chicago
1403 posts
Munich Airport is more organized IMO, Frankfurt has just opened a new terminal though,
which may have improved things.
United is the Star Alliance partner that flies nonstop Amsterdam to Dulles, it seems like
Swiss or Lufthansa should be able to offer you that.