PIREPs by Gernot

Overall, everything OK. Staff from Tower and apron to the GAT all super friendly and impeccable; nothing to complain about. Arrival and departure completely straightforward and easy. The connection to public transport is also excellent: at the terminal (250 m from the GAT) the metro runs every 10 minutes directly to the main station (Hbf; 13 min travel time). Car rentals etc. are also available in the terminal.

The downside, as usual, is the fees (as of 12/2025): with 1,335 kg MTOW and 3.5 hours of parking you very quickly end up in the three-digit range all-in. The issue is not the landing fee, but the number of invoice line items and the fact that some of them at the GAT appear to be partly made up. The landing fee (in Nürnberg it is called "Startgebühr") is a reasonable €18.70; on top of that there is parking (€9.28) and the emissions charge (€3.12), which follow from the schedule of charges and are perfectly fine. However, there is also a GAT fee of €26.45, the consideration for which is unclear to me. Adding VAT, you are already at €68.48. If you want to pay that by card (Visa/Master), you get hit with an additional 4% card payment surcharge, which, like the GAT fee mentioned, does not appear in the schedule of charges. If you then add the outstanding DFS fee, which is invoiced separately, you very quickly break the €100 mark, which, overall, seems clearly excessive.