Frankfurt Airport

I can tell you that transiting Frankfurt is a lot different than transiting, oh, I don't know, Wichita, Kansas.

So you will require quite a bit more time to get between gates at Frankfurt Airport than you might at, let's say, Sitka, Alaska.

So therefore, carriers will typically build in a minimum connection time because they know that at certain international gateways, you're going to need about at least 45 minutes to get between two flights.

And that's the shortest amount of time that a typical carrier will allow before issuing a ticket.

Yes, so this one's from Paddle Your Own Canoe.

Pilots turn the wrong way onto the runway, giving them less than half the takeoff distance at Frankfurt Airport.

The pilots of a Pegasus Airlines Airbus A321neo accidentally turned the wrong way onto the runway while preparing for departure at Frankfurt Airport on Tuesday.

The pilots had just 1,200 meters of usable runway ahead of them, less than half the distance they should have had if they turned the correct way onto the runway.

The pilots of the Pegasus Airlines Airbus A320 accidentally turned the wrong way onto their departure runway, giving them less than half the distance.

The two and a half year old 321neo was due to depart Frankfurt at 5.35pm.

However, the aircraft didn't end up pushing back until 6.09pm and the pilots were instructed to join a taxiway that would lead straight to the departure runway and then turn left onto the runway.

Frankfurt Airport is one of Europe's largest airports.

130 BCH.

Our guest today is a Bliss 2026 attendee where I met him in the airport, in Frankfurt Airport, I believe it was.

which was

very cool

I enjoyed a lot.

But of course, Europe is not in the best situation.

I mean, when I was in the Frankfurt airport, you... you could see there are a lot of businesses, a lot of merchants that only accept credit cards.

That was completely dystopian.

And what we're talking about is the headline here is Lufthansa and Fraport inaugurate the gate of the future, future, future.

at Frankfurt Airport.

I put the emphasis on the future.

I appreciate that.

You have to do that.

But gate A16 at Frankfurt, they have found a way to make Frankfurt Airport worse, which is really impressive because Frankfurt Airport is already the worst.

So why would you make it even more worse? What they're doing here in their gate to the future in Terminal 1 is basically making everything terrible.

And I'm really editorializing here.

I'm not going to lie.

Frankfurt Airport was clean, quiet, modern.

It had everything.

It had sleep pods where you could just go and hire and sleep, obviously.

Maybe I'm just too used to flying to Greece.

Well, anyway, short flight.

Already talked about Frankfurt Airport.

Let's not bore you to death.

And I will credit somewhere between me and Brian M. I can't remember which one of us figured it out, or maybe we both did independently.

We realized that not even that far, 75, 80 minute train ride from the Milan airport or Milan downtown is the town of Lugano in Switzerland.

which is like an Italian town, but in Switzerland.

And there's no extra one-way cross-border fee to drop the car off there.

So we're able to rent a car for $450 for 10 days with Hertz and pick it up at the airport and drop it off five minutes from the train station, avoid the cross-border fees, and knew that whether we wanted to end up in Milan or whether we wanted to just head to the Milan airport and fly out, we could drop the car and do either of those on the 21st.

And so we kind of dialed in all of those logistics except hotels.

The hack that you guys figured out was amazing because it did still allow us to drive into Italy and use the car while we were there.

So canceled the second flight and we booked a hotel in Mainz, Germany, because we had a flight, I think it was like 10 a.m. or something like that in Frankfurt.