Frankfurt's $4BN Mega Airport Expansion

Frankfurt is constructing a brand new mega airport expansion This mega project plans to be one of the largest airports in Europe and comes at a heavy engineering cost to Germany. Today we explore some of the insane engineering behind the mega airport and see how it will transform travel to Frankfurt
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[@TheImpossibleBuild]

A pretty impressive expansion project, are there any others we should cover?

[@cetsy2023]

Cairo's new international airport is coming along with the new Egyptian capital. what will it look on its opening day?

[@Daseko.]

Thank you for covering that. My workplace and my love. I can see the concruction side everyday and it’s amazing to see. + all the amazing Aircrafts.

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

sure there are ... like Munich airport terminal expansions alongside with rail connection expansion, Stuttgart rail network and central station conversion, west coast highway in Norway,

[@davidwebb4904]

2:33 Thats one HUGE foundation. The size of a small country….

[@davidwebb4904]

Almost the size of Scotland!!!

[@adrians7186]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@dildarahmedsaqib2677]

the audio said it wrong is m2 instead of km2, so... not sooooooo big but yeah still big enough area.

[@byswiss]

"the project included laying pipes and building ramps" OMG! these crazy German engineers!

[@markodassler]

The cover photo has nothing to do with the video! Hence thumbs down!

[@kau3734]

素晴らしい空港です👍

[@flippert0]

For a lot of cities, this would qualify as their own (larger) airport.

[@falafelscobes6122]

Looks better than the Western Sydney Airport in Australia. 👍

[@Lifts_QWERTY]

Mind you, Frankfurt Airport has 65 million passengers annually compared to Sydney

[@falafelscobes6122]

Yes eventually it will be Australia’s busiest with 82 million passengers. 4 rectangle terminals with runways either side and a garden in the centre.

[@lennartfeil3485]

It looks so great and im thrilled to experience it in action but i still wonder how they fill up all those countless jobs as frankfurt airport already struggles to fill up the already existing jobs in terminal 1 and 2

[@mrxman581]

LAX airport in Los Angeles is also being renovated and expanded. They're adding two new concourses and one new terminal among many other importants. It's a 30BN program that's been happening for years.

[@hrs6480]

USA is crazy if you think about it, they just print worthless paper from lumber that’s most likely not even from their country and just build whatever they like.

[@markanthony1004]

Has that train to the new car rental place finally finished? They pushed it back the last time I had to fly into LAX and I enjoy using a train to get to rental centers than shuttles

[@FredEricS-Moto]

I bet the customer experience will still be bad. The connections between terminals are already bad, the automated trains are a joke. Escalators regularly fail, there's not enough personnel and the lounges are close to a scam. But, I'm happy to be proven wrong when it's finished 🙂

[@christophsaviation2045]

There is also another train curve under construction, so the S7 commuter train line can run to terminal 3 which will get another underground train station. Like this, people coming or leaving by public transit to or from the central station in Frankfurt won't have to take the Skytrain to Terminal 1 and take the train station there.

[@CodydaUwUCawio]

Main question: will Lufthansa Group take over this terminal when it's done?

[@leonkesko4763]

Nope, they might switch to T2 and renovate the T1, but they definitely said no to T3

[@BlackWolf83m]

@oneandmoreaviation was denkst du da zu wird das alles so kommen ?

[@ocut787]

Nice Thumbnail!!!!

[@FernandoSoares-ub2ej]

Alemanha é a 4ª maior economia do mundo, um dos países mais competitivos do mundo em termos de Produto interno bruto.

[@Pbatzeris]

👏👏

[@Tappygameplay]

Europe is the best continent on earth

[@knabbagluon]

It fails because of migration. Shithole in at least 20 years.

[@NikCan66]

Turning into a 3rd world shithole due to mass migration

[@lim5639]

Yeah, closed to war zone, unlimited influx of immigrants, riots across the Europe, flushing down the drained along with Europe values of equality, freedom, human rights and humanity.

[@ummok4617]

Was by looting afica and asia . Now its the rise of asia with countries like japan, china, south korea , Singapore miles ahead of any European country plus counties like India, Malaysia, Indonesia already on its way

[@Its_Tyronehes]

Thank africa

[@thisiskevin1000]

Could this be Europe’s most advanced international airport once completed?

[@hrs6480]

whatelse? Don’t count London anyways it’s literally in the Atlantic

[@tobiasmuth2372]

First of all, it is simply an expansion to create capacity. The two old terminals can no longer do that. Terminal 1, which dates back to the 1970s, still needs to be renovated and Terminal 2 is already modern. Lufthansa wants to use both terminals for itself and convert them into a more modern terminal. With Termnial 3 you build for the future and initially have an alternative option.

[@ibuzz1337]

@@tobiasmuth2372 T2 is modern? what does T2 have better (genuine question).

[@tobiasmuth2372]

@@ibuzz1337 T2 was built in the 90s. Completely different structural specifications than T1 (70s). T2 was also built because of the wide-body aircraft. Fraport was one of the first airports to have such a terminal. Terminal 1 is now being renovated and converted into a future-oriented facility during ongoing operations. In the future, T1 and T2 will be combined for Lufthansa.

[@ibuzz1337]

@@tobiasmuth2372 no I mean, t1 feels bigger than t2 because of all the 747s Lufthansa has, I've travelled through t2 twice, emirates a380 and Kuwait a320. The terminal seems small and neglected to me honestly, but I love the sky deck at t2

[@thestype]

Frankfurt and the region cannot handle it as the infrastructure surrounding the airport is crumbling. It will be nice to look at if you take the effort to fight your way on the autobahn or take the painful S-Bahn ride which currently suffers. It suffers from maintenance work on the routes Frankfurt-Cologne and Frankfurt-Mannheim - after which it will be not better as in the next decades the country stumbles in maintenance work to keep its neglected infrastructure somehow running. Lastly don't think this 3-Terminal airport will run on 3 Terminals. This is my local expectation: they will close down existing terminals or parts of it for more upgrades as they also are in an inferior state.

[@Jetiexperte]

The Thumbnail is just wrong 😢

[@Ssjuescjjrsdcjz]

2:36 should be square meters

[@PonyQ-fc1ze]

ทองหล่อ

[@johannessimon6857]

Thumbnail maybe a little bit clickbaity 😅

[@rphbo]

Will be great to not have to take a bus to board an a330

[@uweballmann6692]

They are going to use the same Company like in Berlin, so triple the costs and have a delay till 2045?

[@tobiasmuth2372]

The difference between Frankfurt Airport and Berlin... Here in Frankfurt, the state of Hesse, the city of Frankfurt, Lufthansa and BlackRock Inc. (just one of two shareholders as an example) are building up as owners and not, as in Berlin, two federal states including the state as financier and a new company. In principle, a completely new airport was built there. Frankfurt is not a new airport. The buildings are an extension. The construction process is “full of time” and will open in 2026.

[@kermitfrosch6559]

Frankfurt a M. is not the communist, backward and left wing "smelly" city of Berlin.

[@mr.noname115]

Frankfurt Terminal 3 is already nearly finished and still on time schedule. That is quite impressive if you consider the sheer size of this project (that 1 Terminal will have roughly the same capacity as the whole airport of vienna) and the fact that it has only been under construction for 4 years.

[@stephendoherty8291]

Is there a day when climate change will allow for 25m additional passenger trips or about 120,000 extra flights

[@nareshwildbones]

Till the world is completeley destroyed you can always keep travelling (not that I recommend it)

[@hafizsirajkumar7927]

Klia 1 upgrade interiors

[@win-ner]

Europe is the best country in Frankfurt !

[@PonyQ-fc1ze]

THONKLONk

[@vashonm]

Please if china and turkey can do it don't tell me the German can't, but it's probably true look at berlin airport.

[@paule8271]

The different is berlin airport was constructed by the Federal republic of germay, the state of brandenburg and the city of berlin. Frankfurt Airport is run by a Aktiengesellschaft, in us called inc or in uk plc. they can manage to construct in time because they cant mange to pay high rises. All the constructionwork in the past century in frankfurt airport were on time....

[@mariokrings]

​@@paule8271FRAport (the airport manager, FRA being the code for Frankfurt) is a successful company running airports all over the world. Other than the Berlin airport management, they know what they are doing.

[@sierragutenberg]

Bro's comparing two entirely different things. It's like someone saying all American are poor because 11.5% live in poverty. Get your facts right, buddy.

[@mariokrings]

FRAPORT (Frankfurt Airport) always delivered. At home and as well elsewhere in the world where they do the airport management.

[@user-xo9zu2bx7l]

i avoid ffm as it is worse than any russian airport 😮

[@user-em2tz2tx6f]

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[@trendy2009]

I have been thru Frankfurt recently. It should be declared a disaster zone. The infrastructure is so old and bad. The staff don't have a clue about customer service standards. Never fly thru this airport. Avoid at all costs. Pay extra if I have to fly thru DXB or Hamad or Abu Dhabi plz. I am not from middle east!

[@laker6943]

It can’t be worse than JFK. JFK is a third world airport.

[@mariokrings]

I mean, the airport is from the 70ies, so it's not the latest fuss. But it's not as bad as you make it.

[@K1ngGr33n]

Well no shit, its literally located in frankfurt (if you know you know)

[@hrs6480]

@@mariokringshe’s right about customer service they’re like in Munich they can’t even speak german properly as they just bring some foreign workers ?

[@mariokrings]

@@hrs6480 I never had a problem speaking to whatever employee I needed to speak to in German. On the other hand I'm just talking about bakery and supermarkets and coffee shops.... It's not like I am going to the airport to chit chat with employees.....

[@jantjarks7946]

Maybe, just maybe finally go with Berlin Sperenberg. Such a nonsense to add even more to Frankfurt, as it ran into its expansion limits a long time ago.

[@GT670DN]

In Germanys aviation Berlin is just not as important.

[@matthiashartge5520]

It makes perfect sense to expand the terminal capacity in Frankfurt. The runway capacity has been increased over a decade ago by adding the new northwest runway already. It can not be fully used though, as the ground handling capacity was limited so far. This issue will now be solved with the new terminal :)

[@jantjarks7946]

Frankfurt's issues won't be solved without additional runways, which would be extremely expensive if not impossible. And nighttime flights won't be solved with Frankfurt's expansion either. It is Lufthansa that doesn't want Berlin to expand any further, as suddenly a lot of airlines could get slots in Germany. For Lufthansa that would be unwanted competition, for the aviation industry however it would be very valuable. And that's just the beginning of the list of issues with Frankfurt's airport. In Frankfurt every time the airport expands, massive protests are the result, while in Sperenberg people would love to see the airport bringing in business.

[@matthiashartge5520]

@@jantjarks7946 If a proper hub had been built in Berlin, Lufthansa would have moved their main operations there from FRA and MUC. That was the idea in the 1990s. But instead of a massive new hub in e.g. Sperenberg, Berlin only got the massively restricted BER. But nowadays Sperenberg is not gonna happen anymore due to financial, political and environmental reasons. Frankfurt has runway capacity left. With the current layout 126 movements per hour are possible. The limiting factor is the restricted handling capacity in the terminals ;)

[@jantjarks7946]

@@matthiashartge5520 That little runway capacity is expensive, compared to what Sperenberg could offer for the same amount of funds. As said, the night flight restrictions won't go away. The number of people affected by air traffic won't go down either. It was the worst possible option available. And no, Lufthansa didn't want to leave Frankfurt, the very reason for the current mess. 😉

[@AA-nh8dq]

False thumbnail -- blocked channelFY

[@tigersharkzh]

The problem with German airports is that there are too many Germans there.

[@mariokrings]

Wtf? 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@sierragutenberg]

Wdym? It's like saying that there are too many Americans at JFK...