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From: Roland Perry on 8 May 2010 02:53
In message <nMuIobkwwxtLFAbF(a)perry.co.uk>, at 11:45:04 on Sat, 3 Apr
2010, Roland Perry <roland(a)perry.co.uk> remarked:
>I've just booked a flight from Prague to Birmingham direct from
>Lufthansa (operated by a pair of CRJs). It was by far the best
>end-to-end timing for the source and destination (for all airlines) but
>has a 35 minute change in Dusseldorf.
>
>Anyone have experience of quick changes there?

As I reported in another thread, the outbound via Frankfurt was a
disaster. But coming back it all worked OK. As I expected, there were
two (quite long) bus trips involved at Dusseldorf, but the first one
dropped off at doorway with a short-cut (no x-ray to queue for) to the
departure lounge.

Schengen-outgoing passport control was some distance at the far end of
the lounge, but I still got to the gate at almost exactly "gate
reporting time", 30 minutes ahead of departure time. Based on when the
second bus got to the plane, there was about fifteen minutes leeway.

Several other people were making the same change as I was, and there was
much complaint about "changes in the schedules" which had resulted in
this mad dash being necessary.

Due to short immigration queue, and almost instant baggage reclaim
delivery, at Birmingham I emerged landside just five minutes after the
scheduled arrival time.
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Roland Perry
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