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You bought a nice soft carrier, perfect for flying Lufthansa. Then you booked a spontaneous Condor flight to Palma. And now you're stuck at the gate. Because Condor sets its own pet-carrier rules.
Tobias Weßling
News
3.7 million passengers at Memmingen. Over 2.2 million at Weeze. Both airports smashed their own records in 2025 and are now flying above pre-COVID levels. Frankfurt, Germany's biggest hub? Still stuck at roughly 95% of where it was in 2019.
Miriam Kohl
A typical scenario at the check-in desk: a family of four lines up with just one suitcase and a couple of backpacks – two adults, two kids, ten days on Mallorca. The woman at the counter next to them looks over like they'd left half their luggage in the taxi. Her face says it all. *You cannot be...
Lena Brandt
News
Seven hours. That's how long some passengers waited at Lisbon airport just to get through border control. Not a typo.
Tobias Weßling
Guides
A 28-year-old woman died from blood clots after a long-haul flight. That case, reported in the Deutsches Ärzteblatt, is what made me take compression socks seriously. Not the marketing. Not the airport pharmacy display. A real person, younger than me, dead from something she probably didn't even...
Miriam Kohl
News
80 airlines. 155 destinations. 55 countries. The summer 2026 schedule at BER airport is the largest route network Berlin has ever seen. And yes, this is the same airport that opened nine years late in 2020, costing roughly 7.3 billion euros instead of the planned two billion. Things have changed.
Lena Brandt
7.4 kilograms. And still standing in front of the bed at 5:30 in the morning wondering what else could come out. That's everything packed for a five-day carry-on business trip to Munich: suit, laptop, charger, two dress shirts, toiletry bag. All packed into a trolley that looks like it was meant...
Tobias Weßling
News
A round trip from Frankfurt to Singapore used to cost 700 euros. That was six months ago. Right now? Over 2,000 euros. And that's not an outlier.
Tobias Weßling
Two centimeters of overpacking, and the Ryanair hand luggage too big fee lands around €75. All it takes is a fully packed trolley, the usual boarding rush, and a sizer at the gate that shows zero mercy. It's a scenario that has played out for passengers across Europe throughout 2026.
Tobias Weßling
News
Six delays. Originally planned for 2021. And now? According to an official announcement by the EU Commission from March 2025, ETIAS should go live between October and December 2026.
Lena Brandt
Guides
Last summer I watched a guy on a beach in Crete pull his iPhone out of a cheap plastic pouch. Screen dead. Total loss. He'd bought the pouch for four euros from a street vendor. "It said waterproof on the packet," he told me. It wasn't.
Lena Brandt
News
Globally, baggage handling is actually getting better. And yet the risk of lost luggage at the airport in 2026 is higher in Europe than almost anywhere else. Sounds contradictory? Only at first glance.
Miriam Kohl
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