The last time I had to rattle around an airport for that length of time was at Heathrow in June, The Bobbies still wore their traditional uniforms back then. I remember, because they woke me up and asked me all sorts of questions. That killed at least a half an hour, then they were on their way. Funny thing about my flight home that time. I was on stand-by, a one-year open-end ticket for kids under Lindsay Brohman… wow.
What were the chances? Anyway, when we got to Seattle, she had a hotel room lined up with a few of her friends, and we all stayed there and rode back to Canada together. Like Like.
There used to be a Beate Uhse adult bookshop at Flughafen Frankfurt. That could be fun for awhile. Glad you took it all in stride! I know that storm caught them really off guard!
When all the airports were closed due to snow a few years ago, I got stuck at Stuttgart airport. They managed to rearrange my flight to one at 6 a. There is NO way to get from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart at that time in the morning! We tried to sleep on the metal seats then went and got breakfast and 4 a. Annoyingly, both Stuttgart airport and my destination airport were open as usual — but there are no direct flights to Newcastle and every airport where I could have got a connecting flight Amsterdam, Paris, Heathrow was closed!
Yeah I imagine sleeping in an airport and then having to sleep on a plane would be pretty awful. Glad you found a hotel! I actually kinda want to take an airport tour, particularly if you get to be on the tarmac when one of those big birds comes taxiing past. I have a fascination for vehicles. Pingback: Senckenberg Frankfurt — More Dinosaurs! Doin' Time On The Donau. On with the original republished post: The week before last, I got to spend a little bit of extra time in Frankfurt, somewhat against my will.
The actual desk is off to the left there, just past the hanging yellow sign: Because of the resultant delays and cancellations, I was not the only traveler getting stuck in Frankfurt. Airports around the world have increasingly transformed into family-friendly malls to lift earnings amid restrictions and competition in the aviation business. That would complete a transformation from the days when Frankfurt airport featured gambling halls, Beate Uhse erotic stores and dank, windowless bars.
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The Rhein-Main Airport and Airship Base opened in and was the second largest airport in Germany during the Second World War when it was often used by the military. Frankfurt airport contains the Rhein Main Air Base which was a major airlift base for the US from until when Fraport assumed the ownership of the airport.
The Zeppelin and Hindenburg airships were based at Frankfurt airport until the Hindenburg disaster of Today there are plans to expand Frankfurt Airport with a fourth runway and a new Terminal 3, the former of which has been held up by environmental concerns. The latter road can be accessed by taking the A Look for the Frankfurter Kreuz junction for access to the airport from the federal road B View Larger Map.
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