Customs processing time at Dusseldorf airport?

My suggestion is to take whatever train you can when you arrive at DUS. Why book a ticket ahead of time when your flight could easily be late or if the plane has to wait for a gate to open up.

I can't tell you about immigration processing time at DUS but you have to plan for multiple fight arrivals from non Schengen countries in which case you may be in line for over 5 minutes.

Matt, everything is going to depend on when your flight gets in, and no one can predict that.

I have never landed in Düsseldorf, but from my experiences in other German airports (FRA (5x), STR, MUC), I would say that you could not get out of the terminal in 15 min. There will probably be a wait for passport control, since you are coming from a non-Schengen country. In the past, I have never had "anything to declare", so I have walked right past customs, but since you are coming from Russia, they might be more strict.

I also see that the Sky Train out to the Düesseldorf Flughafen Bahnhof takes 6½ min, with a wait as long as 7 minutes.

I would say that, IF YOUR PLANE LANDS ON TIME, you can't make the 13:50, and the 14:06 would be doubtful. The 15:02 sounds like no problem, but if your flight is late, all bets are off.

Not even your passports?! From the U.S.?

That is really unusual. Usually they route you directly to Passport Control, and you can't get out of the room without going past one of the manned booths. (Maybe having nasty cats helps.)

If you meant no one checked your bags, I am not surprised. I've flown into Europe 10 times, all from the U.S., and I have never had my bags checked. However, coming from Russia, I wouldn't be so confident.

What did you say your full name is, and where are you stationed?

It can happen from time to time, a few years ago I arrived at Schipol from a transatlantic flight, and the immigration desks were unmanned for unknown reasons. Everyone just walked right through.

I came through DUS last summer. I have a EU passport, flying into Germany pretty much once a year, but I cannnot remember a time I got through without a passport check. Though it usually is much quicker with fewer people around in DUS than it is in FRA. Still, there was no way I could have made it in 15 minutes from the plane to the train. However that was in part because I arrived at a different terminal than the one that has the train station. So I needed to take the sky train. I waited quite some time for the sky train to come + 6 minutes for the actual ride. And then you change to a different track which could be done in a 90 second dash. In theory.

Can you find out at which terminal your plane is supposed to land and if it's the same one that has the train station? Even in that case you'd have to be VERY lucky to make it to the first train.

About 5 years ago, I arrived in Rome at 6:30am on a Saturday. The immigration inspector looked something like death warmed over. He opened my passport to the second to last page, stamped it, and handed it back to me without looking up...