Tips
A sealed duty free bag looks like a guarantee. It isn't, at least not everywhere. Carry duty free alcohol in hand luggage across a connecting flight and you can lose the bottle at the second security checkpoint, even though the shop sealed everything correctly at the till.
Lena Brandt
News
Two headlines, one contradiction. Back in May, the story was that flying would get cheaper again despite the kerosene crisis. In late June, a scare piece about grounded Lufthansa jets got pulled. And yet almost every flight prices 2026 forecast still ends with the same line: tickets are going up.
Miriam Kohl
Tips
A wedge of hard cheese from your holiday sails through security. The tub of cream cheese beside it goes in the bin before the scanner. Both are food in hand luggage, both look equally harmless, and the ingredient list has nothing to do with it. Consistency decides.
Lena Brandt
Guides
You're at the gate, kid on one arm, and the ground crew is already reaching for the buggy. That's the moment your holiday either starts smoothly or turns into an argument about centimetres. A travel stroller on a plane flies free with pretty much every airline, so the sentence you read everywhere...
Tobias Weßling
Guides
You're at the gate with a garment bag over one arm, the suit for tomorrow morning's meeting inside it. And one question has been rattling around since check-in: does a garment bag carry on as hand luggage, does it count as your personal item, or is this about to get expensive?
Lena Brandt
Guides
Most people searching for 40x30x15 hand luggage are thinking about Ryanair. And they're looking at the wrong airline. Ryanair's own free small bag at 40x30x20 cm (our German-language guide covers it in full) has measured that since September 2025, five centimetres deeper than the size covered...
Tobias Weßling
News
Jerez de la Frontera, Cairo, Klagenfurt, Bologna. The Eurowings flight schedule 2026 picks up a decent batch of new destinations this winter, and not just at one airport. From late October 2026, new direct routes launch out of Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart and Hannover. It's all in the...
Lena Brandt
News
1,700 routes across 35 countries, 80 million seats, more than 140 of those connections brand new: the Ryanair winter schedule 2026/2027 is the biggest the airline has ever published. Germany still ends up in the red. Both things, in the same timetable.
Lena Brandt
News
On 24 October 2026 it's over. Ryanair closes its Berlin base, pulls all seven aircraft stationed there, and halves its BER schedule from the winter 2026 timetable onward. Ryanair closes Berlin base. That affects anyone with a winter booking already made. None of this is fresh news, the...
Lena Brandt
Tips
A lighter on a plane and a vape in your backpack feel like two different checks at security. They're really the same check: can this thing catch fire on its own? If yes, it belongs on your body or in the cabin, never in a checked bag.
Miriam Kohl
News
We published two pieces on Kofferly saying ETIAS would go live this year. One said autumn. The other said the fourth quarter. Neither holds up any more. ETIAS delayed again, and the EU never actually announced it. The date just quietly vanished from the official page.
Tobias Weßling
Guides
You go looking for an aluminium suitcase and trip over shiny silver models for 89 euros. Real metal? Not a chance. That's exactly where the trouble starts, and it's the whole point of this aluminium suitcase test 2026: what counts as real full-aluminium, what's just alu-look painted plastic, and...
Tobias Weßling
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