This is the $4billion dollar upgrade of one of Europe's busiest airports. Located in Germany, Frankfurt’s International Airport is currently undergoing a massive expansion to accommodate the ever-increasing number of visitors.
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0:00 Frankfurt Airport
1:12 Why is it being built?
2:16 Construction Timeline
2:46 Design
4:21 When will it be finished?
6:31 Construction Challenges
8:31 Impact on Economy & Environment
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What do you think? Is this new terminal a good idea?😎👇
Can you make a video about Ciudad Real International Airport?
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Can you stop showing narrator in your videos? I really don't like his mimics...
Yes! 🛬
It's very big for just Frankfurt. NRW needs a bigger airport more then Frankfurt.
And I watched this video in the Frankfurt Airport waiting for my flight 😂😂👍
Haha have a good flight😎
@@MegaBuildsYT Thank you!
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Where you flying to
It’s amazing how Frankfurt can build T3 with ease even with all those problems, while Berlin’s airport (alongside Stuttgart main station of course) remain as an embarrassment 😂
Perhaps inform yourself, stuttgart 21 is not just a main station but a massive network of new tunnels, bridges, roads, new stations that connects the city and the region with the airport and Berlin is the epitome of anti-german socialists who fuck everything up.
BER was led and observed by state-run or state-funded companies. Same thing with the train station. Fraport is mostly private. Private corporations can't afford cost overruns as they'd have to declare bankruptcy whereas the government can use taxpayers money at ease.
With ease? I see where you're coming from, but the planning, the pre-construction and the process of building is certainly not easy 😅 I don't deny that BER project failed for many years, but don't forget, BER was a whole airport and was meant to replace an other international airport and not "only" an extra terminal. If i remember correctly, even the switch from Istanbul Atatürk to New Istanbul Airport was quicker and done better.
@@k.r.99 mate, a new airport and a new terminal fli FRA T3 are basically the same thing in terms of construction complexity. It's the buildings, their technical equipment and the logistics Systems that drive the complexity, not the runway. The only exception being ramping up ATC. It is most definitely up to the professionalism of the project management team, and I fully agree that public companies have a significantly worse track record there. Source: worked for a government customer for 4 years and now run the ramp-up of a large logistics facility in a private company.
It might be a rumour but at some point of building BER I heard they wanted to hire Fraport to finish it, but they declined. Also, there was that joke that it would have been cheaper to deconstruct the city of Berlin and rebuild it next to a functioning airport 🙂
I often use this airport when flying anywhere in Europe and it just always amazes me how big it is. I always get over 10k steps in with hardly trying 😂
It’s a very efficient airport
Indeed When plane lands it's driving for ages Then you might get a bus and travel another 15 mins
The reason why I like this channel is the fact that they don't afraid to upload videos under 15min length. Really some topics like this doesn't need long video, every important details said in this video and that's it, some channels make 50min videos on topics that can be described in 5min. Also this channel doesn't have clickbait covers or headlines. Great job everyone
They are afraid to do less than 10 min tho
why would they be afraid of doing that?? They get more money if they stretch them just over the 10 minute mark
@@NilsMueller exactly
wow thanks a lot for this feedback :) Is there a topic you would like to see on our channel?
I have been in Terminals 2 and 1 in 2018 and 19 respectively. Terminal 2 was simple to navigate through while Terminal 1 was like walking through a corn maze.
Just have a look at the airport from above with the two Terminals and you will understand in a second why it is like it is.
Terminal 1 itself with its concourses A, A plus, B and C would be defined as two or even four terminals at most other airports.
I used Frankfurt airport recently. It‘s pretty nice for the most part, I‘ll be flying back there in a month
Learned a lot of important information about Airport Expansion. You explain it very clearly. Thank you very much for sharing this information with us. The information you provide is very important to us.
Guys, thank you so much for all the videos! I love them so much. Keep the great work!
Long live the heart and pulse of europe Deutschland! ❤🇩🇪 With love from youre swedish brothers!
Naaw, sending love back to Sweden!
Fraport assumed the control of my city airport (Fortaleza, in Brazil) and in a few years the airport has doubled its size. It's impressive how they know how to make an airport work and grow.
Thank you so much for making videos about german Projects This makes me as a German very happy :) 🇩🇪
Bist kein Deutscher, guck deinen Namen an.😂
@@rk6483 Warum stellst du eine Behauptung auf, die sich auf einen Namen bezieht ?
@@AlessandroDiGaudio Bist Italiener du idiot😂
@@rk6483 Bist kein Mensch, guck deinen Namen an.
Good video! I work at Frankfurt Airport and I stood in front of the the Terminal 3 construction site literally 1 hour ago. Thats what I call a coincidence😅
The storytelling in this piece is great. As someone who frequently passes through FRA, I can't help but wonder how Frankfurt will manage to fill the 81,000 new vacancies. The customer journey through Frankfurt can be painfully slow, with most of the issues occurring at security and baggage. I hope that they are actively working on finding a solution to these problems and making the experience smoother for travellers. Nevertheless, I look forward to experiencing the new terminal in 2026!
It isn't 81,000 new vacancies; They're currently employing 81,000 people and terminal 3 will add a couple of thousand new jobs likely ending up at around 100,000ish once terminal 2 has been renovated. So "only" 19,000 new vacancies.
Keep up the good work
It ought to be mentioned that Frankfurt (am Main) actually has two railway stations: one for local trains, and one for long-distance trains. The latter are mostly high-speed trains that whisk you all around Germany and further into Europe. It's a remarkably smoth ride at 300 km/h from Frankfurt to Cologne.
Important to note. Frankfurt itself has many different stations. You are talking about the airport obviously. :)
@@Teddini Yes, you're right. My remark was in the context of the subject of the video, but a little imprecise.
I am one of the very few 3.8% of people subscribed. Come on guys let’s make that number higher.
Frankfurt is totally amazing compared to the UK, when one considers it's not even the capital city - Berlin. Manchester is the only airport outside of London that is undergoing any significant expansion - and unfortunately, it has gone for the low-cost 'Lidl look' on the outside. 68 million people are forced through Heathrow and Gatwick with only Manchester taking up some of the slack in the north. In the UK, everything revolves around London.
The "Londoncentricism" in the UK is annoying to say the least. Gosh!!!
Germany is far more polycentric than the UK. While Berlin has approx. 3 million more inhabitants than Frankfurt (800000 vs. 3.8 million), the Frankfurt-Rhein-Main metropolitan area is actually more populous than Berlin. You step 3 meters outside of Berlin: cow pastures. You cross the Frankfurt city limits, you enter another city with 100000 or more people.
That is impressive as Germany is Constructing one of the best terminal in the world . I have planned to go there next year . hope it works.
Frankfurt airport soon will take over the Heathrow as Europe biggest airport hub. Very interesting video !
The new terminal looks good. Frankfurt has continued to be the leading airport in Europe in terms of its size.
Frankfurt will add another jewel to its crown with its airport expansion.
Europe's largest 4-billion-dollar airport is a testament to the continent's commitment to modern air travel and connectivity. It's not just an airport; it's a gateway to new opportunities, bringing people and cultures together. A remarkable feat of engineering and infrastructure that enhances Europe's global presence. 🌍✈️ #AirportInnovation #ConnectTheWorld"
It--like most-any of the larger airports world-wide--is a failure from the perspective of user-friendliness. It is instead a testament to how ridiculously far people are forced to walk. Just so that more planes can be served simultaneously. On the other hand, removing ALL forms of powered people-movers would force people to actually WALK, thus subjecting them to a form of diet. Which would be a GoodThing in countries with a high obesity-rate...
Ah yes, because I can walk 50 miles to work, then back again every day lmao. Oh wait my truck is for that!@@user-gx1rk8yw6l
Wow 😀 really impressive
very intresting video, especially when u live near Frankfurt Airport (20km) I live here for my whole live and ity nice to see channles to talk about my home airport, :)
Amazing airport expansion
It kind of reminds me of Berlin's Brandenburg Airport from a design perspective. Im also surprised that they didnt add more to it for public transit or higher order transit. If they keep growing one would think that they would need it as a capacity issue.
Having that space for Terminal 3 is a luxury which so many airports/train Stations/stadiums/etc. needing to expand do not have❗😋
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Only have the space due to intentional reduction in military capability.
I remember 25 years ago, we often drove to the airport and went to the visitors platform and I watched the planes land and take off. You could see the US base and the C5 Galaxys over there. Thats where they build the new terminal. Frankfurt might be ugly, but they get their stuff done.
Gutes Video
I flew into Frankfurt International Airport the first time in 1972.
When I was in the army, I flew into this airport back in 1984.
Cant wait to fly from there...
6:15: "The carcasses." Bro was describing reverse death mode. 😁😁😆
Very good video with much information. One thing, that is MAYBE happening, is that the Terminal 3 is getting its own Train station for the Frankfurt S-Bahn. It's not entirely sure when that will happen, but maybe 2026 (when Terminal 3 will go into full service) or 2030. Just wanted to add that.
Actually it will happen. The Bundesverkehrswegeplan 2030 contains a regional train station for the S7 and the regional trains to Mannheim through the Riedbahn
@@paule8271 Yeah, I wasn’t really sure. But thanks for the reassurance.
That’s going to be fun, a few years after completion they’ll have to rip up the area again to build the train station.
@@xfel5913 No. They're bulding the train station at the same time as the terminal but the terminal will be finished sooner than the train station because the train station is supposed to start service in 2030.
I watched this in my house waiting on my dinner 😊
This airport will surely be a game changer, it will reduce congestion at large.
hopefully, this will go better than the Berlin airport work
Portland, Oregon, USA airport PDX has always been one of the top rated airports in the USA. I see many elements in this airport that are in PDX. Having the departures on top and the arrivals below is a smart layout and makes for better movement. It also has a lot of local restaurants & stores in each terminal, which makes waiting for your flight much more enjoyable.
This arrangement of arrivals and departures and the other infrastructure can already be found in Terminals 1 and 2 of the airport, even though they are already decades old. This has absolutely proved its worth. I think planners around the world recognize the advantages and disadvantages of certain building forms and when you have as little space available as Frankfurt - the population around it is very dense - you have to save space and therefore you build both upwards and downwards. Maybe I'll have the pleasure of flying to Portland one day. Then I will remember your words 😀
This is definitely not new and has been implemented for years in many terminals around the world.
@@AL5520 Terminal 1 in Frankfurt opened in 1972 and offered split levels for departures and arrivals from.the very beginning. And the new terminal got its own train station underneath, nowadays the regional train station. Whereas the later built station for longhaul and highspeed trains is situated in a gap between two highways, 200 m away.
Wow this is amazing 🎉🎉
Yes😍
Mr top luxury 😍🤤
The last part to be completed will be the new S-Bahn train station for this terminal. Deutsche Bahn has a reputation for beeing extremely slow in construction projects, even for German standards. In the far future there will be the train station for long distance ICEs with four tracks and an S-Bahn staion with three tracks north of the airport and new S-Bahn station with probably 2 tracks in the south to serve the new terminal and connect it directly to Frankfurt main station.
The stations in the North are already built, only the south station needs to be built
Am I the only one thinking the space between the gates seem a bit over the top? I would think an airport terminal of this size could accommodate a lot more gates and jet bridges.
The passenger numbers for 2023 looks like they will be around 60 million and therefore it will likely only be another year to get back to pre-Covid numbers.
loved the reversed footage lol
It should be noted that T3 will will not only add capacity to the Airport, but will first replace T2 as they carry out extensive renovations in T2. T1 and T2 will then merge to serve Star Alliance flights, with T3 becoming the main Terminal for other airlines. Cheers!
Have you watched the whole video?..
@@Bubbirock Sorry, but he ist rigth. Fraport stated that they want to modernize T2 because of Age and because they have a lot of problems there in terms of efficiency and processes.
@@Bubbirock yeah, hbu?
But isn't Terminal 2 newer than Terminal 1 or most of Terminal 1? What about renovating these areas?
@@immermitderruheyeah theyre renovating many areas of terminal 1 right now. I don't think it would be possible to close it due to the sheer number of flights it handles. Terminal 2 is very small in comparison.
0:16: This would make the Kaiser’s head spin.
0:23 i can see my house :D
FRA airport layout is a MESS comparing to MUC airport. However, the FRA airport city is great ,there are a lot of good shop and facilities in their. Moreover, the ATC service over FRA is great ,those hard working ATC people can handle large amount of plane with professional way .I suggest LHR ATC shall pay a visit to FRA ATC tower.
I am wondering if Terminal 3 will improve same day transfers from one flight to another. Last time I went through there, I had a 22 hour lay over.
How did that happen?
People dont want Bigger airports. They want airports that are easy to navigate and quick to transfer with great cultural experiences.
Yes they dont want bigger airports but they need them
Frankfurt airport is one of the simplest airports I have been to.Switching terminals or get a connection flight ist simple despite its size.
But people will start moaning if 10k people are squeezed into a small hall. So, yeah. Bigger airports are a necessity.
Josh Cahill family applied to scrub floors of terminal 3
5:33 This delivery truck reverses with like 100 kmh
Auckland International Airport could learn alot of how to upgrade an airport
Poland 🇵🇱 is looking at doing something like this near Warsaw.
In my personal opinion this Airport is the most "Confusing" as it stands today,Airport that i know ( and i know lots of Airports all around the World), i don't even want to imagine this "Chaotic" place being bigger that it is today
Can you do bangladesh megaprojects Video?
3:30 baloons outside an airport? Not the smartest idea 😂
I did not see them.
Those aren't balloons, They're just flags
Frankfurt is already massive
It will be a wonderful addition to FRAPORT. I'm hoping that it will eliminate the need for those awful "remote gates" where you freeze or roast while getting on/off your flight and then have to board a bus to get to/from the terminal. If anyone has any info on this, please let me know. Cheers.
I was on an airport tour 2 weeks ago, the guide explained some details while we were driving by in the tour bus: The G-Gate area is internally often jokingly described as G-günstig (cheap) because it was designed in coorperation with low cost airlines (don't qoute me on it but I think Ryanair). It will feature no jet ways and limited amenities, the planes will park at the gate and you will have to get down to ground level, walk to your plane and get on. This is to keep cost very low for the airlines. Areas H and J will feature jet ways and are closer related to terminal 1 in terms on amenities. Also when Terminal 3 is open, they will close Terminal 2 for a few years to completely overhaul it. The guide also made a joke that what Berlin calls the "BER Mega Airport" and "International Hub", they call "Terminal 3". The whole bus laughed Then something I read in a random new article: The airport proposed to connect Terminal 3 via a completely new train station if they were financially supported for it, the government didn't support it, so now they just run the Sky Line in between the "old" train station (only built in the late 90s) and the new terminal. But anyway I guess we wouldn't have gotten something like Frankfurt am Main Flughafen Fernbahnhof (long distance), but instead something more like the Regionalbahnhof for S-Bahn trains
For someone who wants to come close to an aircraft from the outside there is nothing better than remote gates
@@hansmuller3604 Yes, true. I did that for many years. Ah, that smell of jetfuel. Cheers.
When did they start calling it FRAPORT? Seems like they should be more true to their german culture, Is sticking to the old name, "Flughafen Frankfurt am Main." Why the English-based acronym?
@@douglasleathem622 It's been the official name of the airport authority for a long time. I am retired LH and always remembered it. The name of the airport on signs etc is as you wrote above. Cheers.
still hard for me to understand that the airport is almost twice the size of Heathrow (2160 vs 1227 ha) and has four runways, but Heathrow is still moving more passengers (66 vs 49 millions per year).
Since when does the size of an area have anything to do with the number of passengers arriving at an airport? Frankfurt is the final destination for very few passengers, but rather an airport for transit passengers. London, on the other hand, will be the final destination for most people, because London is a major city in the whole world. Besides, Frankfurt only has around 700,000 inhabitants and London has how many? That's right, just under 9 million. If you assess this correctly, the answer is self-evident. You can't compare apples with pears
@@gerhardma4297 for example the number of runways? Frankfurt has four, Heathrow has two, but Heathrow has more passengers. I‘ll probably need a crayon to draw you a picture.
Heathrow serves whole UK, while in Germany there are three to four airports with international traffic (Frankfurt, Munic, Berlin and Hamburg and some smaller ones). So Fraport has not the traffic of Heathrow. Logical.
I would like a video including Bangladesh projects
I miss Rhein Main.
You should do a top 5 green and sustainable development for housings.
which airlines will use Terminal 3?
This all just makes me sad. I was stationed at Rhein Main Air Base In the nineties, Before we had to move to ramstein. That base had a lot of history especially with the berlin airlift. I understand the germans need to expand but it was still sad to see.
Wait, they're not extending the airport train to make a new stop at the new terminal? So passengers have to change onto a different form or transport? That will be an absolute pain and seems very short-sighted.
Did you watch the video mate?
So, if done on schedule, construction will have taken 11 years. What an example of German efficiency. For reference, building Terminal 5 at Heathrow, which is far larger, took 6 years.
Alright have fun to handle that with the 3 Arriving and 2 Departing runways xD
Hopefully it goes better than Berlin-Brandenburg 😬😬😬
the optics: You can't sleep in our uncomfortable chairs because our planes are always on time. the reality: oooops never saw that one coming, Sleep on the floor, you're on your own
Hey Top Luxury, I personally don't like how the talkers face is shown randomly, I would like the narrator to remain only as a voice on the videos. Just like the channel "Tomorrows Build"
I like his face.
Nah, it’s nice to see this isn’t some soulless channel
Are there major rail connections to the airport?
It has a high speed train station direct in front of it!
It’s all looks like Brandenburg airport construction 😅
What is about BERLIN International Airport??? I think we need to cover this too
What about it?
@@patrickp.1001 BER Berlin Brandenburg Airport Willy Brandt it's a major project which took way way to long to complete. But it was the Biggest known Airport Expansion in cost I ever seen so far with over $7BN in costs.
@@lsellclumanetsolarenergyll5071 Yea, but only in cost. Nothing special about that airport to be honest.
These days with so much content streaming, People can choose between what they watch and one thing that a viewer dislikes can hand that viewer to someone else
So how long's this one gonna take to complete?
2026
Since its more like a Private than a Public Project (though parts of it are public like the Highway exit) it should stay in time and budget. Or at cloer to it than public projects usually are
@@lukasrentz3238 Actually not even the roads are funded by tax money. fraport has the full control over all the roads leading from and to the airport. So not even the AUTOBAHN exits are public
Will be done way better than in Berlin. But with years of delays caused by German bureau-crazy and with exploding energy costs because of Green fanatism it is way more expensive than similar projects in the world.
bla bla bal.... right wing bullshit
Why don't you guys cover the American city of Pittsburgh and its new $1.5 Billion dollar terminal development?
its crazy that you can get rich by doing videos like this
I get so jealous seeing other places plan make and finish their projects fast without blowing taxpayer money
You are not talking about Germany right?
This is not payed by taxpayers money it is the money of a registered company listed on the Frankfurt Stockexchange. you can bu their shares world wide
You know when you mentioned the number of subs vs viewers it always amazes me how people do not just go ahead and sub to a channel like this. It is not like you all put our a video every single day to fill their feed. I just don't get it.
Can we get a video about CPK transport hub in Poland?
Surely there is a maximum capability for any airport which depends on the number of flights that it can cope with and the size of aircraft which governs the number of passengers carried which itself depends on how many wish to fly and where they wish to fly to. Hence the number of passengers this new airport I can cope with has nothing to do with its size. It ma just be a very costly white elephant!
My company is providing the rolling stock for the new Sky Line people mover. Just recently the first cars have been tested. I however will probably not use T3 anytime soon, as I am mostly flying Lufthansa/Star Alliance and they will stay in Terminal 1 and will also occupy a then joint Terminal 2 after renovation.
So this new terminal will "only" give an adicional 19 million passengers. That's the growth it had in just 9 years (from 2008 to 2019) Is there plans for further expansions?
Not yet. But I bet there will be a T4 in the future.
I am a crew member based in Frankfurt. I am trying to handle the everyday chaos at this airport under current conditions. Today, we are close to collapse every single day, massive delays, cancellations and two snowflakes are capable to cause a complete standstill of traffic. I cannot see any chances how this airport should be handling some 24 million passengers more. Wishful thinkijg, nothing else. Lack of staff and untrained workers at all ground handling departments make every day a challenge already. Baby boomer generation being retired soon will cause more difficulties in the near future.
The question is... will it be made to the same quality as BERLIN's new airport. (0_o)
To be honest , Frankfurt is so big already I refuse to fly to it at the moment , the changing time was 1 hour and it took his 45 mins to get to the damn get from where we landed and that was when we had assistance. It is absolutely humungous. Dont bother unless you have at least 3 hours especially if you are from the UK as we are not in the EU anymore!
Come on, be realistic. Regardless of the fact that you Brits now have to go through the checks for third countries, I would never, not even at a regional airport, allow for a transfer time of less than 90 minutes. I once had a transfer time of 70 minutes in Zurich and the airport is manageable and I and a whole bunch of other passengers ran through the terminals like idiots to catch our connecting flight.
The problem is ypu dont kkboe how far your flight is. The other side of frank is a vey different sitsution to the other side fo a smaller regioanl siport. @@gerhardma4297
And btw we’ve always been outside schnegen its jsut preicosuly we oculd wueue up eith eu citiziens but now we snt i think scitslly aiports habe sccomodated for the is because british citicens dont stand with others from outsdie rhe rur. Probslby be aue there are alot mote of us holidsying in euripe like eise eu citixens go through automated passport ehen coming to the uk @@gerhardma4297
as long as It Isnt berlin & it opens on time....
Its called football not soccer!
Someone played copy and paste with BER Terminal 1.
Have you ever heard of form follows function?
Yes, in fact I‘m a big Bauhaus fan. That doesn‘t mean that every airport has to look the same.
The only thing that I don't understand is, why does this airport look exactly like the newly built Berlin-Brandenburg airport. Like...they could have done something new. ´
My thoughts. Exactly the same form of the Terminal. We Germans only allow boxes it seems.
Form follows function and as long as no prestige property has to be built and everything is still privately financed, functional buildings will remain. It's as simple as that
I don't think any sane person would describe Frankfurt airport as having a 'feel good' ambiance.
Frankfurt Airport is first and foremost a functional airport for transit passengers and not a tourist destination or wellness hotel. If you want a feel-good experience, you should fly to Singapore. This airport is all you want
I do have a feel good feeling at my home airport 😊
It's nightmare airport..I would never through FKH
great videos, but the shots of you talking arent really adding anything ;-)
Istanbul and dubai are shaking
What a great statement. Neither of these are airports that have existed for more than 70 years and have had to be adapted time and again to changing circumstances. They were built on a greenfield site or in the sand without having to pay attention to nature, people or anything else. So in future, switch on your brain - if you have one - before you say something so stupid.
Definetly, the present terminals have become too conjusted. Built in 1969
So, in the Netherlands Schiphol has to shrink because of nitrogen emissions. It's nice to have 1 European Union, just across the border a lot more is possible 🤦🏻♂️
Not much more is possible here. With an airport with so many flight movements in the middle of a conurbation, there is neither a free pass for unlimited flight movements nor all-round operation. Frankfurt has to close for around 7 hours at night
net zero emissions by 2045, but net 1000% increase in emissions due to additional air traffic ! now that makes total sense. Remember to use paper straws though, coz this will save the planet.