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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only direct flight from the US to Oslo is on SAS, and the currently fly it from both Newark and JFK, but they will phase out the Newark flight soon because they changed airline alliances.

As long as there's at least 2.5 hours connecting time in FRA, that will be perfectly fine. Another thing to try is there are 3-4 flights a day from Dulles to Frankfurt. If he's on an earlier one, then he'll arrive to FRA pretty early and if for some reason he misses his connection, there's likely another Oslo flight later the same day.

The main advice for transferring in Frankfurt is watch the _letter_ of the gate, like A, B, Z. The signage is decent, as long as he goes by letter, and doesn't confuse gate A12 for gate Z12.

He'll be fine. As for English, everyone in Frankfurt airport speaks English with the possible exception of some of the cleaning staff.[/quote]

You can't say he'll be fine. Every flight I've been in recently has been cancelled and the rescheduling was messy. I've had extra nights in hotel in different parts of the world.[/quote]

Then you're really unlucky. Frequent flyer here. I've done 15 flights so far this summer. Yes, some were delayed a bit by weather, but things worked out. I ensure ample connection times when booking, and avoid the last filght of the day.[/quote]

Ample connection times or last flight of the day aren't always the problem - there was only one flight a day from some of these countries and the planes have broken down and/or the crews timed out. We've been put on a replacement plane eventually, which they've sometimes pinched from the next day's fliers, who were then cancelled themselves. The airlines' apps have been less than helpful.

I pack enough to keep me going in my cabin baggage, and I schedule for mail delivery to restart a few days after our expected return. The same issue has happened multiple times with my husband, kids and friends from various cities - Warsaw, Frankfurt, Heathrow, LAX, Sydney, Tokyo, Houston, Paris, Toronto, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Iceland and so on. It seems to be a feature rather than a bug at this point.[/quote]

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