Fraport Traffic Figures - July 2010: Frankfurt Airport Reports New Traffic Records

11/08/2010 07:00

PR Newswire

FRANKFURT, August 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ --


- FRA's Busiest July Ever

Fraport AG's Frankfurt Airport home base welcomed 5,281,632

passengers in July 2010 - exceeding the 5.2 million passenger mark for the

first time in a single month. This topped the previous record of July 2007 by

nearly 90,000 passengers. Compared to last year, 7.7 percent more passengers

used the FRA international air transportation hub.

"Our latest passenger figures impressively show that we are

not only performing well compared to the 2009 crisis year but that traffic

demand at Frankfurt Airport is stronger than ever," explained Fraport

executive board chairman Dr. Stefan Schulte. A new historical daily record

was reached in the reporting month when FRA served 183,663 passengers on July

31, 2010. Thus, the previous daily record of 182,259 passengers on September

29, 2000, was finally broken after nine years and ten months.

Handling 188,244 metric tons of airfreight in July 2010, FRA

registered a new monthly record and a 20.4 percent year-on-year increase.

Aircraft movements also climbed by 3.9 percent over July 2009 to 42,028

takeoffs and landings. Passenger and airfreight figures also had an impact

on accumulated maximum takeoff weights (MTOWs), which rose by about 16,000

metric tons over the previous record month of August 2005 to more than 2.52

million metric tons. MTOWs in July 2010 grew by 5.3 percent year-on-year.

The positive traffic trend was also stabilizing at Fraport's

five majority-owned airports in July 2010. Combined, these airports accounted

for approximately 10.5 million passengers handled by the Fraport Group - an

increase of 11.7 percent compared to the same month last year.

Looking at the specific airports, Antalya (AYT) in Turkey

achieved a 16.2 percent increase to 3.4 million passengers. Lima (LIM) in

Peru saw traffic surge by 19.4 percent year-on-year to 923,381 passengers.

Burgas (BOJ) and Varna (VAR) airports on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast were

used by 567,260 and 288,953 passengers respectively. This represented growth

in passenger traffic of 13.6 percent at BOJ and of 7.2 percent at VAR.

Frankfurt Airport's Traffic Figures - July 2010

July Change (2) Jan. - July Change (2)

2010 July 10/ 2010 Jan. - July

July 09 10/09

Passengers (1) 5,281,632 7.7 % 29,776,692 2.5 %

Airfreight (1)

in metric tons 188,244 20.4 % 1,275,774 30.3 %

Airmail

in metric tons 6,032 4.6 % 42,913 -4.5 %

Aircraft

Movements (3) 42,028 3.9 % 265,785 -0.9 %

MTOWs

in metric tons 2,524,153 5.3 % 15,894,770 1.6 %

Punctuality

share of punctual

arrivals

and departures in

percent 77.2 70.7

(1) Total traffic (arrivals + departures + transit)

(2) Change over previous year

(3) Excluding military flights

Fraport Group - Traffic Figures for July 2010

Airports Passengers (1) Change Cargo in

Absolute in % metric tons abs.

(+ airmail)

Frankfurt (FRA) 5,281,336 7.8 191,480

Antalya (AYT) (2) 3,401,409 16.2 n.a.

Burgas (BOJ) 567,260 13.6 400

Lima (LIM) (3) 923,381 19.4 23,721

Varna (VAR) 288,953 7.2 9

Fraport Group 10,462,339 11.7 215,610

Change Aircraft Change

in % Movements in %

absolute

Frankfurt (FRA) 20.1 42,028 3.9

Antalya (AYT) (2) n.a. 20,842 14.6

Burgas (BOJ) -25.0 3,894 9.0

Lima (LIM) (3) 13.8 10,621 17.5

Varna (VAR) -32.0 2,273 3.6

Fraport Group 19.2 79,658 8.5

(1) Passengers (commercial traffic: arrivals + departures + transit)

(2) Adjusted for 2009 base-year value

(3) Figures provided by LIM

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For Further Information, Please Contact:

Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide

Robert A. Payne, B.A.A. - Senior Mgr. International Press & PR

International Spokesman, Press Office (Dept. UKM-PS),

Corporate Communications, 60547 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Tel.: +49-69-690-78547; Fax: +49-69-690-60548;

E-mail: r.payne@fraport.de; Internet: http://www.fraport.com

For Further Information, Please Contact: Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide, Robert A. Payne, B.A.A. - Senior Mgr. International Press & PR, International Spokesman, Press Office (Dept. UKM-PS), Corporate Communications, 60547 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Tel.: +49-69-690-78547; Fax: +49-69-690-60548; E-mail: r.payne@fraport.de; Internet: http://www.fraport.com






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