Cologne/bonn Airport

✅ Trip Verified | On last 29th July we flew from Cologne to Porto. We arrived at Cologne-Bonn airport two hours before to check in our suitcase with time and have time to have a snack and a drink, We spent one hour and half on a queue for arriving at control and we arrive at our gate just on time. When We passed the control the queue was much longer so I suppose that lot of people missed flights, In our flight lots of seats were empty when the person in check in said that it was impossible to change seats because the flight was full- I have travelled and used different airports in Europe and Canada and this is the worst I have never used.

✅ Trip Verified | Our first flight was from Manchester which had a delay as we arrived in Cologne. Then the staff there would not let us transit and made all passengers go to the exit. So we had to go back to departures and join the queue for security which was so long that we missed our connecting flight. I booked a further flight for later in the evening and we checked in online and joined the security line which ran for probably a mile all the way out of the airport. We arrived at the security line well before 3 hours. There were hundreds of passengers all stuck in the queue and due to this a lot would be missing their flights. There was one staff checking the boarding passes with one machine before letting you through into scan your bags at security. So there was a huge bottleneck there. Several people were jumping into the queues out of desperation. The staff were rude and not willing to answer any questions. The airport was badly signposted. All airline counters had signs saying no info, but they were happy to sell you tickets. I travel a lot and this is the worst airport I've experienced, just disorganised chaos. Hundreds of passengers missing flights because of the airports incompetency. Never flying through this airport again and I recommend other travellers to avoid this. Huge amount stress caused to me and my family due to their inability to manage an airport

Not Verified | One of my worst experiences! Only landed in Cologne to transfer - no signs of where to go, some signs even misleading, no staff anywhere and if you do get lucky finding one, they won't or can't help you because "this is not their job". Missed my flight as a result. Also, finding someone communicating in English is tough, they probably do understand but for some unknown reason refuse to answer other than in German. Most disappointing experience in a long time and my first missed flight ever.

✅ Trip Verified | I'm a frequent traveller, 6 trips this year alone and this is by far the worst airport I've ever had the misfortune of experiencing. The queue for security was probably 2 miles long, which stretched across two buildings and outside. It was at least 4-6hrs just for security, a member of staff said (which is a conservative est.). They only had one person checking boarding passes for an entire terminal and only one person at a time being x-ray'd/searched. There was no organisation, management should be sacked immediately and not let anywhere near an airport again. Staff/police were rude and ignorant. They couldn't care less if you missed your flight. Surely it would've made more sense to call flights to security, in order of departure? We turned up 3hrs+ before our flight with no bags to check in. We queued for almost 3hrs and then had no choice but to ask people if we could queue jump. After 3hrs of queueing, 3 considerable queue jumps of almost mile and a 40min flight delay, we unbelievably made it onto our flight. But there were numerous empty seats on the plane, through no fault of the passengers. I wouldn't fly from this airport again, even if they paid me.

✅ Trip Verified | Worst ever experience in airport. Airport completely understaffed, no information nor help provided to travellers. The very few staff were completely unhelpful. Police not very useful. In these circumstances, they should limit the number of flights.

Not Verified | This is the worst airport I have been travelling from and to. Dirty small toilets and no seating places. I received an email advising me to be at the airport 3 hours prior to departure, check-in starts only 2 h prior, so I have been looking for places to sit and wait - there are barely any, no charging points.At arrival, I needed some information about trains and rails, an angry gentleman answered my questions as if I was an intruder! Overall, a bitter experience!

Not Verified | Worst airport experience ever. Enormous slow moving queues to security desk. Very understaffed, police were rude and unhelpful. Many passengers were pushing in rather than joining the queues. Only one security desk open to serve thousands of arriving passengers. Security were not in a rush to process passengers despite the huge queues. We queued for over three hours to 2 am and couldn’t collect our car hire car as they had shut. Never seen anything like it.

Not Verified | Huge queues waiting for heavily understaffed and difficult security checks. Police were being very difficult with passengers and causing holdups. When we finally got through, we found our luggage had been lost by Ryanair. There were no staff anywhere to try to resolve this. After 2 hours of waiting after arrival, I finally found a member of the baggage handling company who helped me. However no email with my loss number and I think I'll never see my luggage again. There were piles of abandoned luggage left around the carousels with no one available to help. I'm dreading my return flight tomorrow, and will probably get there 6 hours before and hopefully get home. Truly the worst run airport in the world, and I've been to many.

Not Verified | It's a small and easy to rech airport but heavily understaffed! The airport management is worst in the world! During summer, the management should expect more people and especially during summer weekend but they did nothing about that! Although I had a domestic flight on Friday evening. I reached airport 3 hours prior to the departure time (already did online check-in) and the security check line was so huge that I could not make it through security check. It was just pure chaos there. As the security check falls under airport authority not under airline authority. The airline did not refund my money and I lost it all! Had it been there enough security check staff (properly organised) there I could have got my flight!

Not Verified | Such bad organisation. We stood for 4,5 hours in the queue. No one will help or inform you. Understaffed, just 4 of 15 security gates open in the holiday season. Big thanks for Sun Express, they accepted the huge delay just to get as many passengers onboard. Still a dozen of the 180 in our plane mist the flight. A lot of people in our queue missed the flight. Tons of garbage on the floors…