Transportation in Germany
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FRANCE, 2017/09/16
At the same time as it comes to the aviation industry, new technologies and manufacturing techniques have been mounting a silent revolution in the new generation of commercial twin-aisle aircraft: the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A350. Both these aircraft contain around 50% of CFRP composites, as opposed to their previous iterations where aluminium alloys had dominated.
This explains why, at the same time as Boeing and Airbus introduced these two crafts several years ago, most experts thought that the next generation of planes would be made out of composites, a trend that would again expand to include smaller jets – but as turns out, they were wrong.
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GERMANY, 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.
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GERMANY, 2014/02/11
During the busiest traffic months, Frankfurt Airport has set new records in timeliness and dependability. January 2014 posts remarkable record-breaking numbers for this German airport.
Recording an average on-time performance of 82.3 % for arriving and departing flights in 2013, Frankfurt Airport (FRA) completed its best punctuality score in history. Punctuality rates as high as 85 % were reached even during FRA’s heaviest traffic months from July to October 2013 – thus setting a new historical record for individual months. The trend is as well continuing this year: In January 2014, FRA registered its highest-ever monthly flight punctuality rate of 87.1 %.
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GERMANY, 2014/02/11
During the busiest traffic months, Frankfurt Airport has set new records in timeliness and dependability. January 2014 posts remarkable record-breaking numbers for this German airport.
Recording an average on-time performance of 82.3 % for arriving and departing flights in 2013, Frankfurt Airport (FRA) completed its best punctuality score in history. Punctuality rates as high as 85 % were reached even during FRA’s heaviest traffic months from July to October 2013 – thus setting a new historical record for individual months. The trend is as well continuing this year: In January 2014, FRA registered its highest-ever monthly flight punctuality rate of 87.1 %.
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GERMANY, 2013/11/26
Germany's major airline, Lufthansa, is likely to reconsider the scope of its cooperation with the Turkish national carrier, Turkish Airlines (THY), next seeing disadvantages following a transaction regulating codeshare flights to a number of destinations, Der Spiegel has reported in its new edition.
Next months of bargaining and diplomatic wrangling, as Today's Zaman reports, the two parties struck a transaction before this year, deepening their strategic cooperation in the international aviation market as the continuing fallout of the recent world financial crisis has prompted a lot of airlines to launch new strategic plans to meet formidable challenges.
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GERMANY, 2013/10/13
On Friday, Fraport announced that some 5.5 million passengers used the Frankfurt hub in September of this year, the highest number recorded for any September in the history of that German airport.
Germany's biggest airport has booked a new all-time record in passenger numbers for September. The Fraport group managing the Frankfurt hub as well logged increase at the foreign airports in which it holds a majority stake.
Despite extensive strike action in the same month a year ago, numbers had by presently soared to a record high in 2012, but this year the airport was used by 191,000 additional people, marking a 3.6 % increase year-on-year.
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GERMANY, 2013/08/11
In 2005 Frankfurt was the initial airport worldwide to be “A380 compatible.” It was not only that the initial landing of the A380 prototype at a civilian airport was conducted here - but the licensing for ground handling and evacuation of the major aircraft worldwide as well took place at FRA.
Last Friday, an Airbus A380 with the blue-red-white tail fin of British Airways (BA) landed at Frankfurt airport (FRA). The reason being, British Airways is launching this aircraft type into its long-haul route network. It is the initial of twelve A380 aircraft to be delivered to BA.
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AUSTRIA, 2013/08/11
With the purchase of Austrian and Swiss Germany's Lufthansa had put their airline into an chance in having the option of three nations instead of one bilateral agreements with other markets. Germany, Switzerland and Austria are presently covered by one airline and three different names - the Lufthansa Group.
The world Star Alliance headquarter is based with Lufthansa in Frankfurt.
If the bilaterals - which translate into a reciprocal number of fixed seats or flights a week for airlines of each country - with Austria and Switzerland are indeed revised, it will be a large setback for the 30.1-billion Lufthansa. Europe's biggest airline by sales is facing tough competition from Gulf carriers Emirates and Etihad in the Indian skies.
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GERMANY, 2013/04/26
The opening of Berlin's new airport may be postponed for a fourth time, marking the new delay in a project that has turned into an embarrassment for a country that prides itself on efficiency and punctuality.
The management of the new Willy Brandt airport, has informed its government stakeholders of "major problems" with the project's fire safety system and other technical features, Transport Ministry spokesman Sebastian Rudolph said.
