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A list of all our featured airports in Germany can be found below, together with an overview of how to find cheap flights to Germany.
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Flights to Germany - Overview
Flights to Germany -- overview
Germany is Europe's largest economy and the most populated country in the EU, but it lags some way behind Spain, Greece and France in the tourism stakes. However, don't be fooled into thinking that all flights to Germany are just aimed at the business community -- thanks to the rise in no-frills airlines, and hybrid carriers such as Flybe and Air Berlin, plenty of cheap - or at least reasonably cheap - tickets are available throughout the year.
How Germany's geography affects flights to Germany
Germany is very different to countries such as the UK or France, which are heavily dependent on one major city -- London and Paris respectively. Although Germany does still have one major hub airport, Frankfurt International, popular city break destinations are much more spread out throughout the country, and the diversity of attractions which are on offer make it worthwhile to visit several different cities on your trip to Germany. This is very easy to do thanks to Germany’s excellent road and rail network, especially in the former Western Germany between the Rhine-Ruhr conurbation and Munich. Cities such as Cologne, Dusseldorf and Dortmund are particularly close to each other, and the journey by high-speed train between Cologne and Frankfurt can be done in just 1 1/4 hours.
Frankfurt's position as a major international hub has a converse effect of keeping most no-frills airlines out, whereas cities such as Cologne (Cologne Bonn airport), Dusseldorf, Munich, Hamburg and Berlin have a good network of cheap flights from London and various UK regional cities.
Scheduled flights to Germany (traditional airlines)
The main competition between traditional airlines offering scheduled flights to Germany is unsurprisingly between British Airways (BA) and Lufthansa. Whereas all BA’s flights to Germany depart from London Heathrow apart from their Frankfurt flights from London City Airport , Lufthansa have a significant network of flights from airports throughout Germany to Manchester and Birmingham, in addition to offering flights to Frankfurt from Bristol and Edinburgh, and flights to Dusseldorf from Newcastle. Lufthansa also offer flights to six cities in Germany from London City airport.
Cheapest flights to Germany
Generally, the cheapest flights to Germany are those offered by Ryanair, although the extra costs can quickly mount up when you compare the prices on Ryanair flights to out of the way airports like Frankfurt Hahn and Dusseldorf Weeze with flights offered by other airlines to more central airports. The latest addition of Ryanair's cheap flights to Germany is three new destinations from Manchester (Bremen, Frankfurt Hahn and Dusseldorf Weeze), which take advantage of cheap off-peak slots which have been offered to the Irish no-frills giant by Manchester airport. Ryanair have also added cheap flights to Dusseldorf Weeze from London Gatwick. Although Ryanair have always offered an expansive network of flights to Germany from London Stansted -- quite literally from A (Altenburg) to Z (Zweibrucken), they also now offer an impressive range of five German destinations served by flights from Edinburgh -- Berlin, Bremen, Dusseldorf Weeze, Frankfurt Hahn and Altenburg. On the other hand, there are surprisingly no Ryanair destinations in Germany with flights from Liverpool, despite the Merseyside airport being a major hub for them.
Easyjet's network of cheap flights to Germany is nothing like as expansive as Ryanair's, although they do have a strong focus on Berlin, which has inbound flights from Belfast International, Bristol, Glasgow International and Liverpool, as well as flights from Luton and Gatwick. The dominant German airline offering budget flights to Germany is Air Berlin, who offer a wide network of flights to mainstream German hub airports from London Stansted. However, Air Berlin's attempts to launch a network of flights to British airports beyond London Stansted has so far proved unsuccessful. Other smaller players on the low-cost flights to Germany front include Germanwings (limited destinations from Edinburgh, Dublin and London Stansted), Jet2 (Leeds Bradford to Dusseldorf International), Aer Lingus (Gatwick to Munich and various destinations from Dublin and Cork) and Flybe (various destinations from Birmingham, Manchester and Southampton).
Obscure routes to Germany
Flights between the UK and Germany aren't just aimed at British passengers wanting to take a holiday in Germany. Who would have thought that flights were available between Jersey and Dusseldorf (Air Berlin) or between Newquay and Dusseldorf (Lufthansa)? Clearly these routes are aimed at German tourists coming into the UK. However, both routes also offer residents in Newquay and Jersey opportunity to connect to numerous other parts of Germany, either by onward flights, or by using the German rail system.
Fly and drive
Picking up a rental car at any of Germany's airports is easy, and you should be able to access the autobahn network very quickly unless you are flying into one of Ryanair’s out of the way airports. The Germans live up to their reputation for driving fast thanks to the lack of speed limits on some stretches of the autobahn, although this has been heavily curtailed in many places due to speed restrictions aimed at reducing accident rates and cutting noise emissions.
Fly and rail
Germany offers excellent opportunities for combining flights with rail trips, with most major German airports being directly connected to the rail network:
Airports with high-speed train stations
- Frankfurt International (FRA) -- separate (architecturally stunning) high-speed and local train stations on site. ICE high-speed connections throughout Germany. Sample connection -- Cologne in just over an one hour.
- Dusseldorf International (DUS) -- high-speed train station accessed by a monorail from terminal buildings. Local train (Dusseldorf S-bahn) station below airport terminals. Sample connection -- Cologne in 34 minutes by ICE. Note -- using the German rail network’s (D-Bahn) online timetable, you will see that trains using the high-speed station are labelled as 'Dusseldorf Flughafen', whereas local services using the station underneath the terminal are labelled as 'Düsseldorf Flughafen Terminal.'
- Cologne Bonn (CGN) – underground, high-speed and local (Cologne S-bahn) train station situated between the two terminals. Sample connection -- Frankfurt in just over one hour.
- Leipzig Halle (LEJ) -- station on site with high-speed and local services. Sample connection -- Dresden in 1 1/2 hours by InterCity train.
For further information about opportunities for onward train travel in Germany, please click on the relevant city pages.
The following airports have on-site rail stations, but are not directly connected to the high-speed network -- Hamburg International (HAM), Hanover (HAJ) -- tram, Stuttgart (STR), Munich (MUC), Berlin Schoenfeld (SXF) - 300 metres from the terminal.
Trains to Germany from London
Germany is easy to reach from London by train, especially if you are travelling to the Rhine Ruhr region. For example, trains from London St Pancras International to Cologne take five hours and 25 minutes, with one change between Eurostar and Thalys in Brussels.
Alternatively, another option for reaching Germany from UK regional airports which have few other connections to mainland Europe is to take a flight to Amsterdam. For example, trains from Amsterdam Schiphol airport to Dusseldorf take around 2 1/2 hours, with one change at Amsterdam Centraal - this has to be a much quicker way of reaching Dusseldorf than changing to a connecting flight through Heathrow..
We hope that you have found this information about flights to Germany useful. If you have any further questions about Germany flights, please do not hesitate to drop by our flights blog.
Mini guide to Germany
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