Englishmum

They're all Star Alliance partners, so you will almost certainly not have to change terminals Also your checked in baggage should be interlined to your final destination....although with all those flights you might want to take some spare knickers in your hand luggage in case your suitcase doesn't get to Manchester at the same time that you do LOL!

Oddly enough, I heard that British Airways is going to take over British Midland. I guess it will end up becoming obsolete like British Caledonian did. However, BA is in the OneWorld alliance, which is a kind of competitor...

Out of curiosity I just checked online and yes, BA is going to buy BMI from Lufthansa:

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/12/...ufthansas-bmi/

http://www.airreview.com/BMI/

robin1234

Yup, avoid the one and you may not need the other.

EnglishKimmy

Ohh dam I wished u lived closer could do with hearing some northern accents instead of Americans accents strange things you miss haha!

CAdreaming

ive a strange mixed accent cos ive lived in london for over 20 years even tho my family are in the boro and when i go back to see them thats where i go but after a few days im starting to speak with the STRONGEST boro accent!!!! Even I cant understand myself

EnglishKimmy

Haha oh I get ya I lived in Essex for eight years before America! Even though it's only like a five hour drive amazing at how accents change.

Weeze

If you go to Phoenicia on Westheimer on a Wed/Thur morning you always seem to hear Teesside or Newcastle accents. It's very peculiar.

EnglishKimmy

I've lived in Texas for about 15 months I love it the weather is perfect. Nice and hot . And I'm 20 so yea still ajusting here haha.

augigi

Just had a connection in Frankfurt yesterday (United from Dusseldorf via FRA to Washington, DC). Did not have to change terminals. Freaked out because we were landing at Gate A something and I needed Gate Z something, but it was actually very close, and had no problems. I had a 50 minute connection and made it with time to spare. We did have a jetway.

HarryTheSpider

I heard they couldn't afford it...!!!

EnglishKimmy

Oh really? Il have to try that out!!!!

CAdreaming

thanks that give me some hope! I have 75 mins in between flights
Guess it all depends where the manchester flight lands and the San Fran flight takes off from

tonrob

Have you checked Flightstats yet? It shows actual gates used day by day and also stats regarding on-time performance per flight. While gates may change over time and even on the day, at least you can get a handle as to which gate those flights are arriving and departing fron right now and their relative distance from one another.

CAdreaming

Ive looked at a map of the terminals but will go back and try to find the flight stats -thanks you!!

CAdreaming

Just googled flight stats for FRA ----got site and will have a good look later - thank you so much this is really helpful for all flights not only this one!!! Never thought to do this before!!!

CAdreaming

Here I am in uk...great flight from San fran to frankfurt...we were 15 mins early.it is indeed confusing..I just followed my gate letter B ..till I came to a train and then it had Bc which threw me....went back and asked someone and they said get on...so I did and ended up at Manchester gate...having stood in flight for Budapest and getting blank looks when I asked if it was the queue for Manchester. It wasn't too bad but I wont use this route again ad it added hours..I still had 3 hours train journey from manchester
Announcements were all in English after German and loo was clean...from Manchester to middlesbrough was a bit grim tho...rainy and bleak after the redwoods!!!
I would say if u use frankfurt be sure to have enough time...the walk was long and it took a while to get through security