Your luggage and boarding card details
Simply click on your connecting airport to retrieve the details on your selected flight.
You’re changing planes in Cologne/Bonn…
Your luggage:
When you catch a connecting flight you only pay the luggage surcharge and any possible excess luggage surcharge once for the whole route from departure airport to Cologne and on to the destination airport. You check in your luggage at the departure airport and then change planes without any hassle at the connecting airport. Your luggage is checked through to the destination airport.
Your boarding card:
If your booked connection departs from a German airport (except Rostock and Friedrichshafen), you will receive your boarding card for the whole journey when you check in at the desk (or when you check in online or using the check-in machines).
For all other flights you will be given your boarding card for the connecting flight from Cologne at the Germanwings transfer desk in the gate area of the Cologne/Bonn airport. Please follow the signs once you arrive at the terminal building.
You’re changing planes in Stuttgart…
Your luggage:
When you catch a connecting flight you only pay the luggage surcharge and any possible excess luggage surcharge once for the whole route from departure airport to Stuttgart and on to the destination airport. You check in your luggage at the departure airport and then change planes without any hassle at the connecting airport. Your luggage is checked through to the destination airport.
Your boarding card:
If your booked connection departs from a German airport (except Rostock and Friedrichshafen), you will receive your boarding card for the whole journey when you check in at the desk (or when you check in online or using the check-in machines).
For all other flights you will be given your boarding card for the connecting flight from Stuttgart at the Germanwings transfer desk in the gate area (gate 311). Please follow the signs once you arrive at the terminal building.
You’re changing planes in Berlin…
In Berlin all passengers must once more go through the security checks when changing planes.
A distinction is made between those connections starting in non-EU and/or non-Schengen* countries and those that start in Schengen* countries.
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For connecting flights starting in Schengen* countries the following applies:
Your luggage:
When you catch a connecting flight you only pay the luggage surcharge and any possible excess luggage surcharge once for the whole route from departure airport to Berlin and on to the destination airport. You check in your luggage at the departure airport and pick it up at your final destination. You can change planes without any hassle or luggage. Your luggage is checked through to the destination airport.
Your boarding card:
If your booked connection departs from a German airport (except Rostock and Friedrichshafen), you will receive your boarding card for the whole journey when you check in at the desk (or when you check in online or using the check-in machines).
For all other flights you will be given your boarding card for the connecting flight after you land in Berlin at the Germanwings transfer desk in the departure hall.
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For connecting flights starting in non-EU and/or non-Schengen* countries the following applies:
Your luggage / your boarding card:
When you catch a connecting flight you only pay the luggage surcharge and any possible excess luggage surcharge once for the whole route from departure airport to Berlin and on to the destination airport. Due to customs regulations it is unfortunately impossible for us to check your luggage all the way through in Berlin: for flights from non-Schengen* and/or non-EU departure airports, such as Bucharest, Istanbul, Izmir, Moscow, Pula, Split and Zagreb, we would ask you to pick up your luggage on arrival in Berlin and proceed to the Germanwings transfer desk in the main hall, where you will receive the boarding card for your connecting flight. The transfer desk is well signposted. It is next to the normal check-in desks just 100 metres from the luggage retrieval hall.
*You can find a list of Schengen countries on the European Commission’s homepage.
You’re changing planes in Hanover…
In Hanover all passengers must once more go through the security checks when changing planes.
Your luggage:
When you catch a connecting flight you only pay the luggage surcharge and any possible excess luggage surcharge once for the whole route from departure airport to Hanover and on to the destination airport. You check in your luggage at the departure airport and then change planes without any hassle at the connecting airport. Your luggage is checked through to the destination airport.
Your boarding card:
If your booked connection departs from a German airport (except Rostock-Laage and Friedrichshafen), you will receive your boarding pass for the whole journey when you check in at the desk (or when you check in online or using the check-in machines).
For all other flights you will be given your boarding pass for the connecting flight from Hanover at the Germanwings transfer desk, which is desk B213 in the check-in area of departure hall B at Hanover Airport. Please follow directions once you have reached the terminal building.
