Frankfurt airport welcomes more than five million passengers

Last month Frankfurt Airport welcomed more than five million passengers for the fourth month running. Some 5.02 million passengers used FRA during the reporting month, an 8.5 per cent year-on-year increase. Thus, FRA’s cumulative figures for...

Last month Frankfurt Airport welcomed more than five million passengers for the fourth month running. Some 5.02 million passengers used FRA during the reporting month, an 8.5 per cent year-on-year increase. Thus, FRA’s cumulative figures for January-to-October 2010 advanced by 4.4 per cent to 45.1 million passengers year-on-year.

Airfreight at FRA hit a new historical record of 206,085 metric tons during the same month, up 15.8 per cent year-on-year. The previous top month was in May 2010 when FRA handled 204,332 metric tons. Total airfreight tonnage jumped by 25.7 per cent during the first 10 months of 2010.

Despite the growing trend towards larger planes at FRA, aircraft movements climbed by four per cent to an astonishing 42,320 takeoffs and landings in October 2010. However, pas-senger traffic for January-to-October 2010 developed under-proportionately at 0.7 per cent, due to unfavourable conditions at the start of the year.

Overall, Fraport’s majority-owned airports (including FRA) served a total of 8.5 million passengers in the last month, up 13.9 per cent year-on-year.

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