When do I go through immigration in Europe from Mallorca to Frankfurt to the USA?
We are traveling home from Mallorca, Spain, to Frankfurt, and then back to the USA. We are considering an affordable flight but the layover is only 50 minutes between landing in Frankfurt and then flying home to the USA. When do we go through immigration there? Would 50 minutes be enough time if so?
Best Answer
50 minutes is not likely to be enough even if you're on the same ticket:
- The non-EU passport control lines in Frankfurt are generally busy;
- There are extra document checks and security check for the flights departing to the USA, and the gates on US-bound flights seem to close much earlier ("gate closed 30 minutes before departure");
- Its quite a bit of walk from Schengen area to the gates where US flights depart (AFAIK a different terminal).
- Finally, if you buy two separate tickets on different airlines which are not in alliance, and have luggage, you'd have a bunch of other issues, and definitely not going to make it.
So your chance to miss a flight are pretty high.
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