Overview
- Fraport expects roughly nine million travelers across the holiday period that began Friday, June 26, and about 616,000 passengers for the first weekend, a major operational peak for the newly opened Terminal 3.
- Terminal 3, which opened in April and now houses airlines moved from the closed-for-renovation Terminal 2, runs full CT-scanner security lanes that allow liquids up to two liters and let electronics stay in bags.
- The automated Skyline-Bahn between Terminal 1 and 3 returned to service after May faults following Siemens adjustments and is running with journey times close to eight to nine minutes though occasional disruptions may still occur.
- Fraport has added traveler tools such as prebookable security time slots, Fast-Bag-Drop, arrival-time guidance, increased cooling and staff rotations to reduce heat stress and manage passenger flows.
- Local critics and opinion writers say approving Terminal 3 without a dedicated S‑Bahn connection was a planning failure and urge Fraport to fund a rail link rather than rely on extra road and bus traffic that they warn will shift costs and environmental burdens to the public.