T
Terminals
Frankfurt Airport has two large
main passenger terminals (1
and 2) and a much smaller
dedicated First Class Terminal
which is operated and
exclusively used by Lufthansa. As is the case
at London's Heathrow Airport, terminal
operations are grouped for airlines and airline
alliances rather than into domestic and
international routes.
Terminal 1
Terminal 1
Terminal 1 is the older and larger one of the two passenger terminals. The landside is 420
metres long. It has been enlarged several times and is divided into concourses A, B, C and
Z and has a capacity of approximately 50 million passengers per year. Terminal 1 is
functionally divided into three levels, the departures level on the upper floor with check-in
counters, the arrivals level with baggage claim areas on the ground floor and, underneath,
a distribution floor with access to the regional station and underground and multilevel
parking. Departures and arrivals levels each have separate street approaches. A bus station
is located at arrivals level. Terminal 1 has a total of 103 gates, which include 54 gates
equipped with jetways (25 in Concourse A, 18 in Concourse B, 11 in Concourse C).
Pier A was extended by 500 metres in 2000, and a link between Terminal 1 and Terminal 2,
as well as the Hall C extension opened in 2008
On 10 October 2012, an 800-metre-long westward expansion of Terminal 1 called Pier A-
Plus went into operation. It provides more stands for wide-body aircraft like the Airbus
A380.
Terminal 1 is primarily used by Lufthansa, its associated companies (Brussels Airlines,
Eurowings, Swiss International Air Lines and Austrian Airlines) and its Star Alliance partners
(e.g. Aegean Airlines, Air Canada, Air China, Air India, All Nippon Airways, Croatia Airlines,
Scandinavian Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, TAP Portugal, Thai
Airways, Turkish Airlines and United Airlines).
EDDFFrankfurt
May 2017
www.alliance-airways.net
32