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Hamburg Airport: Airports continue to advise wearing a mask - it is mandatory in the Hanseatic city
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Should the mask be in hand luggage or not?
As confusing as the rules in the individual federal states are, they are also when it comes to the Easter holidays by plane.
Should the face mask cover your face when checking in?
Or when boarding?
Or is that voluntary?
And how is the place of arrival?
The best advice first: if in doubt, have a few FFP2 masks ready.
What applies at German airports?
Masks are no longer compulsory at most airports – but wearing them is recommended by the airports:
"We also recommend wearing medical or, at best, FFP2 masks," says a spokesman for
Berlin-Brandenburg Airport (BER)
.
Other corona hygiene rules such as keeping your distance should be observed.
The spokesman also referred to the option of contactless check-in at check-in machines.
There is no longer a mask requirement at BER.
In Brandenburg, further requirements were omitted on Sunday night.
The spokesman explained that BER cannot issue any regulations that go beyond the applicable regulations.
In addition to the recommendation to wear the mask, he also pointed out that the employees of the airport company would continue to wear a mask.
The two major airports in North Rhine-Westphalia
, Cologne/Bonn
and
Düsseldorf
, also continue to advise travelers to wear masks.
There is no longer an obligation, according to spokeswomen for the airports.
In North Rhine-Westphalia, most of the Corona requirements were no longer applicable on Sunday night.
Since then, the mask requirement in public interiors has no longer applied.
In the terminals of Germany's largest airport in
Frankfurt am Main
, masks have also no longer been compulsory since last Saturday due to the relaxation of the corona virus in Hesse.
However, the airport operator Fraport referred to the personal responsibility of passengers and visitors at the airport and recommended wearing masks.
Especially where distances cannot be maintained for a short time: at check-in, at the passenger checkpoints, at the gates and at baggage claim.
Masks are no longer mandatory in the terminals at
Munich
Airport .
However, the airport strongly advises travelers to keep their distance and wear a mask.
However, the mask requirement still applies to the buses operating on the apron and the subway, which runs between Terminal 2 and the satellite building, writes the airport company on request.
There is only one airport in northern Germany where travelers cannot choose whether to wear a mask or not:
FFP2
masks are still mandatory throughout the interior of
Hamburg Airport .
This is due to the Hamburg hotspot regulation, explains a spokeswoman.
The Hanseatic city has been a corona hotspot since Saturday and is therefore subject to stricter pandemic protection rules than most other federal states.
In Hamburg, for example, the FFP2 mask requirement indoors will continue until the end of April.
Hamburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are so far the only countries that have declared themselves hotspots across the board.
And what is compulsory on board aircraft?
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Even if masks are no longer compulsory in most German airport terminals, you should not simply leave the masks at home.
Because the situation on board looks different after boarding in Germany.
The following applies
to flights to and from Germany
: All persons aged six and over must wear an FFP2 mask during the flight.
For example,
Lufthansa
points out that a medical mask must be worn when boarding, during the time on board and when exiting the aircraft.
For connections from
airports in countries worldwide
, the measures imposed there apply.
For example, no mask has to be worn on the plane within Scandinavia.
Easyjet
for example
points out on its website that wearing a mask is optional on a few routes offered by the airline - such as on flights between England, Switzerland, Iceland or Poland.
What applies in the terminals of the destination airports?
If you fly from Hamburg to Oslo, for example, you can immediately take your mask off your face in the terminal – if you don’t want to protect yourself from Covid-19 in the turmoil.
In general, just as you find out about the corona hygiene measures in force there before leaving for your holiday destination, you should also find out about the measures in airports.
The Federal Foreign Office provides information on entry requirements and regulations in its travel and security information.
Lufthansa has set up an easy-to-use service website for this purpose, on which information about the obligation to wear a mask in terminals can also be found under "Airport information".
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