Flew into Munich last week. No issues. Smooth.

Flew into Frankfurt last week and it was 45 minutes to clear on entry. Flying out 5 days later was 1 hour plus with almost all being Americans trying to fly out. Most of us were stuck in passport control while our planes started boarding.

Frankfurt is a flippen disaster. Kiosk down, passport control 2 hrs long. People are pissed … me included. Missed connection by 1 minute. Flying business and they don't give a crap

Paid for escort coming…. Had 2 hrs on the way home, thought that would be sufficient, boy was I wrong.

Won't make that mistake again

Here was our experience last few weeks....

Landed at CDG on 7am Monday morning 6/22. Regular scan line was going fast, but because we had a 6 and 10 year old, we were put in the longer line. There was a plane from Ethiopia in front of us with 2/3 windows open and it was going slow. There was a 3rd line for business/first that had no one it. I went and asked if my premium economy made me eligible for that lane, and they let us. Saved us 2 hours for sure.

Coming home, we flew from MRS to Frankurt. In Frankfurt we had to clear before we left. At one point, we were in a line that didn't look too bad and a Lufthansa employee came up and asked any US passport holders to follow him. About 50 of us followed him through the airport while he held up sign like we were on a cruise ship tour. Wound up in some other area, where we had had to go through 2 other stations. The guy told us that it should be quick, but their wifi was bad so every passport took at least 30 seconds to come back. All of it felt very unclear and made up on the fly but it worked.

Still don't understand why being in First/Business class with an airline should have anything to do with which line someone uses for TSA here or passport control in Europe, but it works that way sometimes. Glad you used that to your advantage!