Hannover Airport is relatively small and easy to negotiate if it wasnt for the security delay. They…read morehave very modern scanner machines but obviously don't know how to operate them. They tell you that you dont need to take liquids out of your luggage, but then all the luggage containing liquids is blocked after it has been scanned and opened and checked manually by a member of staff. This is ridiculous and inefficient. Very disorganised. They need some proper training also in people-management because they are rude. There is nothing other than a basic duty free shop once you go through security. A nice sandwich place though.

The profoundly ugly, boring, and at night dangerous city of Hannover has only one virtue:…read more Hochdeutsch being in origin the dialect of Hannover, the locals--those few of them who speak German--are at least rude to you with perfect Goethe Institut diction and accent. How surprising then at security at the airport to be bellowed at in plattdeutsch, and, upon complaining (in better German) that I did not understand, to be bellowed at in an "English" so heavily accented as to be incomprehensible to any native English-speaker. And that was not the end of the shouting. When I went through the scanner I was shouted at again--well, really the wall was shouted at, but I was supposed to intuit that I was the object of the hail--in proper German but, as the proper German revealed, in "du." Still, anyone wanting a taste of old-timey German official abuse and shrieking (in that odd falsetto I thought was confined to German officers in war movies) might find the experience of security at Hannover Airport edifying. And such a person will have plenty of time to study it: security is extremely slow and meticulous, and the bag scanner continuously has to be cleared of stuck bags. Personally, I find the silent insolence i AZof security at Franfurt more soothing.