Behind the Scenes at FRANKFURT AIRPORT
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2024
- Watch this video to see inside the World’s MOST CONNECTED Airport!
Welcome to Frankfurt Airport! Frankfurt Airport is a massive operation with up to 240,000 passengers per day and 1,600 takeoffs and landing in a day. It’s also Germany’s largest place of employment with nearly 81,000 people working on the airport’s campus.
Frankfurt Airport can be a challenging place to connect. But we’ll help you out! In this video, you’ll discover secrets to make your next connection easy.
In this Frankfurt Airport Tour, we’ll also show you what it’s like out on the airfield to get up close and personal with jumbo jets. Best of all, we’ll take you behind the scenes to meet the people who work behind the scenes to make sure you have a smooth trip through Frankfurt Airport.
Here's a link to the study about the world's most connected airports:
airlinergs.com/cirium-reveals...
0:00 Introduction
0:48 Above the Wing
11:46 Below the Wing
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Music:
Leap of Faith - Edgar Hopp
Sun Melt Waves - Oman
Undercover Departure - Radio Night
Sweet Escape - Aiyo
WHY (Tell Me) (Instrumental Version) - SRA
A Million Upheaveals - Edgar Hope
Don’t Stop My Heart - dvine
Coastal Connections - Lionel Quick
Connectivity Dub - Brendon Moeller
Down Down Baby (Instrumental Version) - Adelyn Park
Talk of the Town (Instrumental Version) - Adelyn Park
Romance in the Air - Epocha
Waking Me Up - J.F. Gloss
The Dominion - Bonnie Grace
Pradisio - Sum Wave
Ruby’s Rythm - Brendon Moeller
That departure board is a thing of beauty.
It's a Solari board.
Exactly. Nothing evokes the romance of international travel like the clickety-clack of numbers & letters on a massive solari board
@@coyotelong4349I miss hearing that in Boston's South Station
This one a passenger will see when departing from FRA. If a passenger has a connecting flight, well , perhaps consider yourself lucky, b.c. You are already within the busy airport.
Yet, inside it still is confusing:
Perhaps not so much for business travelers, but for visitors, especially for the elderly. (B.c. the long walkways between connections - the supposedly help for handicapped does not work there: you are dropped on a bench and have to wait for your pick-up again - no chance to use a bathroom or get s.th. to drink or eat.
Not well planned.
The sound and visual effects of the board adds texture and anticipation to travel.
I had a seven hour layover in Frankfurt in late 2017 on my way to Buenos Aires. I had booked assistance ,but inadvertently booked the incorrect lounge. Airport staff essentially adopted me for seven hours, driving me in the little buggies, changing my lounge booking to a more convenient one, chatting with me about my eventual destination (Ushuaia) and generally being nice people. Everyone I encountered seemed to love what they were doing, and everyone spoke some English! It's the people who make it!
I booked assistance at Frankfurt Airport recently but there was none
Rewarded for being wrong. Seems to be that no one is now responsible for their own actions.
I love your Airports Revealed series, Jeb. I hope to see a lot more of these videos in the future. Thanks for producing such great content!
Thanks so much! It's 100% a passion project. They don't get as many views as videos like "FIRST CLASS from X to Y" or "Amazing TRAIN to Z," but we love highlighting the professionals working behind the scenes, so we'll keep making them as long as we can!
@@GreenerGrass I'm surprised this type of video isn't getting as many views. I found this one exciting! I would like to see more of this type like maybe Amsterdam!
@@ginawebster631I intend to visit AMS someday soon and make a Behind The Scenes Airport video there at Amsterdam 🇳🇱
Great video, Jeb. As someone who has worked at airlines and airports for years, showing the a fraction of the flip-side is a welcome change to the "seat-review" videos. Well done!
Thanks! We love highlighting the professionals, like you, who keep us flying!
Frankfurt is a nightmare to navigate. I like the simplicity of my home airport of San Diego. When people are deboarding either a domestic or international flight there they heard you through the series of checkpoints you need to get through. There is no second guessing where you are supposed to go for customs, for baggage pick up, for car rental or car/ taxi service. You are streamlined into a singular option and friendly people are there along the way to help you. At Frankfurt it was just so massive, signs would start to tell you where to go and then suddenly stop directing you, and there is constant construction that makes things like rental car returns a headache.
Jeb, your enthusiasm is infectious. I love your sincerity and how much you geek out on things. Thanks for taking us along for the ride.
I was a bit confused by the title - if anybody else is wondering, Frankfurt is the most "well-connected" airport i.e. the airport with the most non-stop destinations, but not the airport with the most connecting traffic (which I assume is one of the middle eastern hubs, or maybe Atlanta).
You're correct! There are more cities with service to/from Frankfurt than any other airport in the world!
Jeb score for Delta Inflight Entertainment for watching this video is a 5
@@GreenerGrass Which is kind of unexpected (at least for me)! Frankfurt is barely in the Top 20 busiest airports, but I guess its location in the center of Europe kind of lends itself to a lot of non-stop services?
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Frankfurt is such a massive hub and transfer airport for the same reason Atlanta is here in the US- Because they serve as super hubs for an airline
Frankfurt and Atlanta themselves, while still major cities of course, aren’t exactly the world’s most hopping tourist cities
I believe IST took the title of most connected from Frankfort
I spent what was one of the best parts of my Air Force career on that ground that is now becoming Terminal 3 when it was Rhein Main Air Base. I was sad to see it go but am happy that Frankfurt will be helped to thrive by increasing the capacity of the Frankfurt Flughafen.
Just a little background history, Terminal 3 use to be the old U.S. Air Force Rhein-Main Air Base. I spent several years there working on the flightline. I had one of the best views of Frankfurt Airport.
A few weeks back when i was departing from europe i went to this airport. Honestly its more of a city than anything! Absolutely massive! Great service from the employees as well, just a generally nice place to be.
Thank you so much for that video, it was amazing. I am from Germany and Frankfurt is besides Cologne-Bonn airport my main airport and I always spend way too much time at the airport simply watching this spectacular system functioning; It really is a not-so-small city 😅I would totally love to get a look behind the scenes in person, but this video is probably the closest I will ever get. And your fascination for aircrafts and air traffic in general is always soo contagious... When I first found your channel I almost binge-watched it, and after that I am always excited to find a new video uploaded. Together with the "all hubs in 24 hrs" videos, the airports revealed series is my absolute favourite!
FRA used to be my "second home" since I was flying in and out of there so much. Thanks for the deep dive into FRA, one of the best airports in the world!
Always love your videos Jeb! As a major airline pilot here in the US I always enjoy your and your wife's enthusiasm towards the industry. Keep up the great content, maybe one of these days ill see you in a terminal and get to say hi!
It’s incredible how much goes on behind the scenes of running an airport like this. Very unfathomable.
Great video Jeb!
As someone who works at O'Hare, I'm quite impressed with some of the technology and wish they brought it to our airport.
I remember living in Germany from 1980-1985 and every time we flew back home to the states we flew through Frankfurt. In 1985 we actually flew out of Rhein main AFB across from Frankfurt international and we flew on a world airways dc-10 :)
I have been travel through Frankfurt Airport many times, and every time, that I can always find something new, and always enjoy to be there. Thanks for your video, which truly gives me another perspective view of the Frankfurt Airport! Thanks again for your efforts and videos!
Thank you, Jeb! I lived and worked in Frankfurt for 10 years, passed through FRA countless times and you showed me so many interesting new things!! Aloha from Honolulu to you and Suzanne!!!
Wow! Incredible scenes at FRA. Got a connecting flight once there, and it was massive. One thing I love about FRA is that I can see the airplane activities at the gate very close and clearly.
Awesome video, Jeb! FRA is definitely a gigantic airport, but those changing signs make navigating it easy. I was just in FRA about two weeks ago, flying to DTW on Delta. These Airports Revealed videos are very interesting. Thanks for showing us behind the scenes in the Frankfurt Airport!
What an awesome inside look at the operations of a major airport!! Your content just keeps getting better and better. Would love to meet Suzanne and you one day in Greensboro when visiting family. Keep up the great work Jeb!!
Thanks a ton! We learn something new with every video...always looking to improve!!
I VE WATCHED QUITE A FEW OF YOUR VIDEOS.YOURE DEFINITELY GREAT TO HEAR &WATCH YOUR PRESENTATIONS..
Absolutely love the behind the scenes look! Makes you appreciate the complexity of the workings of airports! 👍👍
Loved your video on Frankfort airport. I was there years ago and even then it was wonderful. Thank you for taking me on memory this time this time.
Holy moly Jeb. What a beautifully cinematic video. Loved every second of this. Kudos to you. Brilliant ❤❤
Incredible footage and amazing behind the scenes. Wow!!
That departure /solari/split flap is just perfection. Such memories of them.
Can’t wait for more of these.
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Just an amazing behind the scenes view of how we get from one place to another so seamlessly (unusually) love this behind the curtains experience!
Jeb, you and Suzanne are by far my most favorite RUclips personalities! I always learn so much and live vicariously through your travels! Keep up the FANTASTIC work!
My respect for FRANKFURT AIRPORT and staff went up :)
Absolutely incredible. I just flew through FRA yesterday, and was so impressed by the bag drop system. I never would've guessed that so many people work on the campus, but I think that's so cool about Germany's private airports. MUC is similar, in that it has a ton of office and conference space integrated near the terminal. Rather than making the airport a totally insular and utilitarian space like in the US, Germany seems to make their airports centers of commerce and productivity, extremely well-integrated into the transit network. Many lessons to be learned.
I have several Frankfurt airport stories, but my favorite by far was staying in the air-side transit hotel on a sleepy Sunday evening; relaxing in bed with a window that looked out over the ramp and runway as planes arrived, taxied, and departed with a beer vending machine just down the hall was as close to first class luxury as I have ever come.
Thanks, Jeb. I really enjoyed this. Also, thank you SO MUCH for using the proper terms for the space around the terminal. "Tarmac" just drives me up the wall!
Very cool that the Fraport/FRA staff gave you that kind of special access to the airport operations for your video! Was a pleasure to watch ✈️
Wow what a wonderful / professional insight into the inner workings of an airport! I only started watching your video's recently due to the Amtrak videos popping up in my feed, really glad i stuck around! Thanks Jeb and Suzan and all the peeps behind the scenes. 😘
Love the 'Airports Revealed' series. Thanks for producing this for us Jeb!
Wow! Taking new heights Jeb! You’re now taking your RUclips Channel into an airport documentaries. Very informative to know how airports work and the fundamentals of its logistics. Way to go! Subscriber since 2017.
Perfection, also would love to see this series on more IFE systems, would be nice for passengers on many carriers who want some industry-related content beyond carrier-sponsored fluff PR pieces
WOW! Such an awesome experience for you and Suzanne and such an awesome airport. I’ve been looking into flying into Frankfurt specifically for my next European trip just so I can experience Lufthansa‘s 747 routes. A big thanks to all the employees at the airport who helped you with your video and help the general flying public on a daily basis.
What a timely video as I'm connecting through Frankfurt next Saturday on my way from Edinburgh to Montreal. Brilliant video as always. I love these behind the scenes videos and your obvious enthusiasm.
Great video Jeb!! Love Frankfurt❤️
We live in Kenya and I've flown through FRA at least 30 times. Your behind the scenes video was excellent and showed me things I never knew about FRA. Also the airport hotels for long or overnight layovers are convenient. I love the forest trails next to the airport as well. I used to work on the ramp (apron) for United in Denver. You explained all of that "under the wing" activity very well. The highlight of my shifts were when I got to do the "push backs" for the planes althought we didn't use those huge tugs you were in. Downside of Denver is working outside loading and pushing planes in sub zero weather and snow.
I had about a 10 hour layover in Frankfurt last October on my way to Istanbul, for such a long layover the airport was exceptional in every aspect.
Hey Jeb! I love your videos, I’ve been watching for over 2 years or more! I look forward to your videos every week, when you weren’t able to upload for the 3 weeks it made me very excited to see what you had coming
You've done it again Jeb, your content is outstanding! Thank you!
I love this series Jeb! I really enjoy how intricate these videos are and it must take so much work. Hands down one of my favorite channels here on YT. Keep up the great work!
I love these behind the scenes type videos. Keep up the great work👍🏻
Glad you like them! More to come!!
I worked for Menzies aviation at OSL for a while until my health caught up with me. Worked as a baggage handler.. Hard and stressful but great co workers... I love your videoes from boat to trains to flying.... This one at FRA was top noch again :)
Greetings from Oslo,Norway
Never stop creating, man. Your stuff is always so good because you and Suzanne are so truly enjoying every minute of it, and that translates 100%.
787 Dreamliner is definitely the best looking bird in the sky!
I’ve even had the privilege to fly on one from DFW to ORD! It was amazing!
Awesome video Jeb. Thanks so much for making it.
WOW JEB! This has got to be the best & most interesting video you have uploaded to your channel! When I visited Frankfurt Airport, I had no idea about most of the stuff mentioned in this video, so I now feel super lucky & privileged to have been able to visit Frankfurt Airport & look forward to going back there some time in the future!
Airports are simply incredible
Awesome look at the Frankfurt Airport. I loved watching.
Absolutely love this video. Actually, love pretty much all of your videos.
Amazing video!!! ❤ I‘ve been a visitor, passenger and fan of Frankfurt Airport since I was a child. Always great to be back - especially for spotting! Thanks for this great behind the scenes video.
Love your videos Jeb. Thanks for sharing.
01:50 I'm thinking that visitors center should be a must see if visiting Frankfurt.
Another Fantastic presentation from Jeb and Suzanne!
I started my aviation career there in 1990 when there was just one terminal A B and C gates, Frankfurt is always very close to my heart. TWA 747-200s and Delta L1011s
Thanks mate so much for this series. This has to be my favourite episode.
I am so happy you did another one of these! I love these!
Loved this video. Made me feel all kinds of things, like awe and amazement at the airplanes, and technology being used at this airport. I felt so happy about how employees and management feel about it’s customers, and complete nostalgia when you guys were pushing that gorgeous A330. I was in the Navy and my squadron has huge P-3C Orions, too big for aircraft carriers, and one of my jobs was a lineman. I’d have to drive huge vehicles called to move our aircraft and I also was responsible to help launch and recover our planes. The coolest, was in one of our 18:52 deployments where our pilots reversed the blades of our planes so they can go backwards and I’d have to guide them park backwards into their spot. Coolest job!!
FANTASTIC AS USUAL!!!!!!
Frankfurt was my first international airport. Always special.
Another gem! Loved it!!!!
What an adventure! Thank you for the video!
Wow! You had great access. Can’t wait to see the next one.
That departure board is a thing of beauty.. That departure board is a thing of beauty..
Loved this video!! Would love to see Luxembourg Airport next ❤
Jeb, what great video, unfortunately my flying for workdays are over but, when I was flying, always thank everyone, from the captain to ground staff. Greetings from Mexico.
Thanks for the premiere, love the dancing!
DUDE, this by far is the most entertaining, informative video ever! great job you two!
super cool vid sir, thanks for sharing - love all the 747 footage but you towing that A350, priceless.
Really enjoyed this one, Jeb, please do more! ❤
Great video Jeb. Hope to see more of these types of videos in the future!
This was by far one of the coolest videos. Thanks for creating and sharing
This was amazing Jeb, thanks so much for this video!
Thx for for this. Life around 2 miles from FRA (Terminal side) and it's always fascinates me, from my childhood up tp today.
Wow. this is a fantastic vid. Really enjoy it👍👍❤❤ i passed through FRA numerous times but have never seen behind the scene especially the visitors' center. Look amazing!!! Thanks.
I wish I could travel more, but when I can, I am sure that I'll be grateful for these videos!!
We lived at Gateway Gardens, used to be located next to T2, and the Unterschweinstiege bus stop. I biked with my young son on Ellis Road to watch the planes take off. Good times.
Absolutely worth the wait. This was great
Great tour and behind the scenes! Fun stuff! Thanks for bringing us along.🛫
I enjoyed watching this!!! Amazing!!
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I love ur videos and can watching them all day! You opening my eyes to a whole new world!
love these videos Jeb, keep them coming
I love your videos anyway, but this was WOW !! - I'm going to have to visit Frankfurt airport just to see the airport !
So much to see and a Solari board too!!
Fantastically informative video Jeb,beautifully put together.Awesome
I so miss those flippety-flop boards. I could stand and watch those for hours! They were hypnotizing.
Great video....I just flew Frankfurt to Tampa two days ago. It is a beautiful, efficient airport.
This was very interesting to watch. Who would have thought there was so much going on. Thank you.
Fantastic video start to finish! Thanks for all the hard work you and Suzanne put into these and for highlighting the great professionals who make it all possible. Flying out of GSO soon heading to Geneva on the new Delta route - see you in the skies!
This video was awesome! Please keep making content like this.
Oh man oh man oh man. I can't wait to watch this one!
hey Jeb! ive been watching your videos in hopes to lighten my flight anxiety. i will be traveling from nashville TN to brisbane australia in a few months. you have made me want to get business class on the long haul flight! thats for sure! much love! safe travels.!!
It’s really interesting to read about the inner workings of a busy airport. Thanks!
Long time fan but I put off watching this video for two weeks. I live ten minutes from Newark airport and for the last 25 years have traveled to Germany at least twice a year. Which means I usually have to go through Frankfurt and have no love for that airport. Long lines with multiple security checks is beyond annoying. I try to fly direct to Munich instead. But, this video did give me a new appreciation for the facility. You showed me how multiple employees are trying to keep the place running with all that traffic. So thanks for that and hugs ro Suzanne.
Another fascinating behind the scenes video. So interesting to watch the inner workings! Thank you!
Wow, a lot of information I didn't know. Thank you for this video
This video turned out to be better than I expected. Such a joy to see an airport that's not across the world on this series.
Unfortunately it looks like you have visited when some of their "celebrities" - thanks to the German documentary series 'Mittendrin - Flughafen Frankfurt' - either were busy otherwise or not on duty at all.
Nevertheless you have provided us with some very nice insights, facts and views. Thank you and Fraport for this opportunity.
Amazing Jeb. Brilliant video!
I had a family member experience a medical emergency in the Frankfurt airport. The response was as swift, well managed, and organized as you could ever hope for. I’ll always be grateful to the airport operations folks for their work that day.