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Germany: Frankfurt Airport records strong growth

2014/09/12

Welcoming 6.1 million passengers, Frankfurt Airport (FRA) completed a new monthly passenger record by exceeding the six million passenger mark for the initial time in a single month. This represented noticeable increase of 5.4 % year-on-year. Furthermore, FRA’s daily traffic volume surpassed the 200,000 passenger level 13 times in August 2014.

Before, FRA had only passed this daily traffic peak four times within a single month. Frankfurt Airport as well registered its busiest traffic day in history on August 17, 2014, at the same time as Germany’s major aviation hub served 210,599 passengers. FRA’s cargo throughput (airfreight and airmail) rose by 3.2 % to 179,555 metric tons, up 3.2 % compared to the same month last year. Aircraft movements as well climbed by 0.6 % to 42,684 takeoffs and landings.

The airports in Fraport AG’s international portfolio continued to steer a steady increase path in August 2014. Peru’s Lima Airport (LIM) received 1.5 million passengers in the reporting month, a gain of 7.6 % year-on-year. On the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, Burgas (BOJ) and Varna (VAR) airports together greeted 1.1 million passengers (up 4.7 %). Some 4.5 million passengers used Antalya Airport (AYT) on the Turkish Riviera, a nine % increase. With 1.7 million passengers, Russia’s St. Petersburg Airport (LED) registered double-digit increase of 10.9 %. With almost 2.9 million passengers, Xi’an Airport (XIY) in central China as well saw similar increase of 10.1 %. Germany’s Hanover Airport (HAJ) reported 568,044 passengers and increase of 9.7 % year-on-year.

Fraport AG - which ranks part the world's leading companies in the world airport business - offers a full range of integrated airport management services and boasts subsidiaries and investments on five continents. In 2013, the Fraport Group generated sales of €2.56 billion, EBITDA of €880.2 million and profit of about €236 million. Last year, additional than 103 million passengers used airports around the world in which Fraport has a majority stake.

At its Frankfurt Airport (FRA) home base, Fraport welcomed additional than 58 million passengers in 2013 and handled some 2.1 million metric tons of cargo (airfreight and airmail). For the current flight timetable, FRA is served by 108 passenger airlines flying to some 295 destinations in 105 nations worldwide. Additional than half of FRA's destinations are intercontinental (beyond Europe) - underscoring Frankfurt's role as a leading hub in the world air transportation system. In Europe, Frankfurt Airport ranks initial in terms of cargo tonnage and is the third-busiest for passenger traffic. With well over 50 % of all passengers using Frankfurt as a connecting hub, FRA as well has the highest transfer rate part the major European hubs.

Frankfurt Airport City has become Germany's major job complex at a single location, employing additional than 78,000 people at some 500 companies and organizations due on site. Almost half of Germany's people lives within a 200-kilometer radius of the FRA intermodal travel hub - the major airport catchment area in Europe. FRAAirportCity as well serves as a magnet for other companies located throughout the economically vital Frankfurt/Rhine-Major-Neckar region. Thanks to synergies associated with the region's dynamic industries, networked expertise, and outstanding intermodal transportation infrastructure, FRA's world route network enables Hesse's and Germany's export-oriented businesses to flourish in world increase markets.

Frankfurt Airport meets the increasing needs of the flourishing export-oriented economies of the National of Hesse inclunding Germany as a whole, for optimal connections to increase markets around the globe. Likewise, FRA is as well a strategic gateway for companies wanting to access the huge European marketplace. Thus, Frankfurt Airport - which is strategically located in the heart of Europe, is one of the majority significant hubs in the world and a key infrastructure site for Germany and Europe.

Major new real estate developments - such as The Squaire, the Gateway Gardens business park, and the Mönchhof Logistics Park, etc. - are creating an exciting new dimension and range of services at the evolving Frankfurt Airport City of the 21st century.

Fraport Traffic Figures
August 2014
Fraport Group Airports1
Fraport August 2014 Passengers Movements Cargo (Freight & Mail)
share in % Month Δ % Month Δ % Month Δ %
Fully-consolidated airports
FRA Frankfurt, Germany 100.00 6,113,895 5.4 177,251 3.5 42,684 0.6
LIM Lima, Peru2 70.01 1,468,854 7.6 26,693 -1.6 13,845 1.9
BOJ Burgas, Bulgaria 60.00 747,183 3.7 216 >100.0 4,939 4.2
VAR Varna, Bulgaria 60.00 353,662 6.8 14 >100.0 2,585 6.5
At equity consolidated airports2
AYT Antalya, Turkey 51.00 4,516,379 9.0 n.a. n.a. 25,370 5.8
LED St. Petersburg, Russia 35.50 1,740,162 10.9 n.a. n.a. 14,884 3.1
HAJ Hanover, Germany 30.00 568,044 9.7 896 -12.7 7,116 -3.8
XIY Xi'an, China 24.50 2,872,181 10.1 15,272 12.3 23,433 9.2
Fraport Group Airports
Fraport Passengers Movements Cargo (Freight & Mail) Year to Date (YTD) 20141
share in % YTD Δ % YTD Δ % YTD Δ %
Fully-consolidated airports
FRA Frankfurt, Germany 100.00 39,757,584 2.8 1,398,905 2.4 314,564 -0.1
LIM Lima, Peru2 70.01 10,251,976 4.6 183,785 3.0 101,864 0.4
BOJ Burgas, Bulgaria 60.00 2,145,638 3.3 3,302 >100.0 15,576 3.8
VAR Varna, Bulgaria 60.00 1,102,855 5.8 45 >100.0 9,256 6.3
At equity consolidated airports2
AYT Antalya, Turkey 51.00 19,727,239 7.7 n.a. n.a. 122,161 5.8
LED St. Petersburg, Russia 35.00 9,861,789 12.4 n.a. n.a. 98,704 8.4
HAJ Hanover, Germany 30.00 3,430,145 -1.1 9,391 -2.4 51,242 0.4
XIY Xi'an, China 24.50 19,259,160 10.3 115,765 5.6 162,321 7.8
Frankfurt Airport3
Month Δ % YTD 2014 Δ % August 2014
6,114,305 5.4 39,761,342 2.8 Passengers
179,555 3.2 1,418,962 2.2 Cargo (freight & mail)
42,684 0.6 314,564 -0.1 Aircraft movements
2,667,274 2.9 19,261,375 2.1 MTOW (in metric tons)4
152.2 4.7 135.2 2.7 PAX/PAX-flight5
84.6 77.4 Seat load factor (%)
76.1 82.4 Punctuality rate (%)
PAX share month Month Δ % PAX share YTD YTD Δ% Frankfurt Airport Regional Split
9.4% 2.6 10.9% 2.3 Germany
52.2% 8.0 51.2% 6.4 Europe (without Germany)
43.3% 8.2 42.6% 6.2 Western Europe
8.9% 6.8 8.6% 7.2 Eastern Europe
38.4% 2.9 37.8% -1.4 Intercontinental
4.2% -0.8 4.0% -8.0 Africa
5.5% 6.2 5.3% 2.6 Middle East
14.6% 2.2 13.7% 1.1 North America
3.0% -2.1 3.6% -4.8 Central & South America
11.1% 5.1 11.1% -2.0 Far East
0.0% -100,0 0.0% -100.0 Australia
1 According to ACI-definition:
Passengers: commercial traffic only (arr+dep+transit counted once)
Cargo: commercial and non-commercial traffic (arr+dep excluding transit, in metric tons)
Movements: commerical and non-commercial traffic (arr+dep)
2 Preliminary figures
3 Passengers: commercial and non-commercial traffic (arr+dep+transit counted once incl. General Aviation) Cargo: commercial and non-commercial traffic (arr+dep+transit counted once, in metric tons) Movements: commerical and non-commercial traffic (arr+dep)
4 Inbound traffic only
5 Scheduled and charter traffic

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