FRANKFURT, Germany,
January 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Frankfurt
Airport (FRA) served nearly 53.5 million passengers for the entire year of
2008, down 1.3 percent compared to the previous year. Cargo throughput
(airfreight plus airmail) dropped by 2.7 percent to 2.1 million metric tons
and aircraft movements declined by 1.4 percent to almost 486,000 takeoffs and
landings. Only accumulated maximum takeoff weights (MTOWs) rose by 0.5
percent to 28.4 million metric tons.
Group-wide traffic grew in 2008 to 78.2 million passengers, mainly due to
Peru's Lima Airport (LIM) achieving 10.4 percent growth (to 8.3 million
passengers) and Turkey's Antalya Airport (AYT) reporting an 8.5 percent jump
(to about 9 million passengers) - here Fraport is meanwhile also managing the
domestic terminal.
During the reporting month of December 2008, FRA was particularly
affected by the weakening global economy. With almost 3.8 million passengers,
FRA welcomed 5.3 percent fewer passengers year-on-year. Airfreight dropped by
25 percent to about 142,500 metric tons and aircraft movements declined by
5.2 percent to 36,255 takeoffs and landings. MTOWs also slipped by 4.8
percent to about 2.1 million metric tons.
All of the other majority-owned airports of the Fraport Group recorded
positive traffic development in December 2008: Lima had about 700,000
passengers (up 8.8 percent), Antalya almost 332,500 passengers (up 6 percent)
and Frankfurt-Hahn nearly 265,400 (up 2.2 percent). In Bulgaria, Varna
Airport (VAR) registered 21,577 passengers (up 3.6 percent) and Burgas
Airport (BOJ) served 2,317 passengers (up 25 percent) year-on-year.
Frankfurt Airport's Traffic Figures - December & Full Year 2008
Dec. Change 2 Jan. - Dec. Change 2
2008 Dec. 08/ 2008 Jan. - Dec.
Dec. 07 08/07
Passengers (1) 3,757,300 -5.3 % 53,472,915 -1.3 %
Airfreight (1)
in metric tons 134,673 -26.0 % 2,042,956 -2.5 %
Airmail
in metric tons 9,361 -7.8 % 90,346 -5.1 %
Aircraft
Movements (3) 36,255 -5.2 % 485,783 -1.4 %
MTOWs (3)
in metric tons 2,142,856 -4.8 % 28,393,009 0.5 %
Punctuality
share of
punctual
arrivals
and departures
in percent 75.2 75.1
1 Total traffic (arrivals + departures + transit)
2 Change over previous year
3 Excluding military flights
Fraport Group - Traffic Figures for 2008
Airports Passengers (1) Change Cargo
Absolute in % in metric tons
(incl. airmail)
Frankfurt (FRA) 53,467,450 -1.3 2,111,116
Antalya(2) (AYT) 9,071,318 8.5 n.a.
Burgas (BOJ) 1,936,853 -0.6 1,465
Frankfurt-Hahn
(HHN) 3,939,232 -1.9 123,918
Lima (LIM) (3) 8,288,506 10.4 239,112
Varna (VAR) 1,450,192 -2.9 n.a.
Fraport Group (4) 78,153,551 0.9 2,475,612
Change Aircraft Movements Change
in % absolute in %
Frankfurt (FRA) -2.7 485,783 -1.4
Antalya(2) (AYT) n.a. 66,594 15.3
Burgas (BOJ) -28.6 16,952 5.2
Frankfurt-Hahn
(HHN) 10.9 40,586 -1.0
Lima (LIM)(3) 6.1 98,733 6.3
Varna (VAR) n.a. 15,129 1.1
Fraport Group(4) -1.3 723,777 1.2
1 Passengers (commercial traffic: arrivals + departures + transit).
2 Terminal 1 plus domestic terminal passengers (adjusted for base value
2007).
3 Figures provided by LIM.
4 Base value 2007 = Group airports (majority investments) as of 2007,
plus Antalya's domestic terminal.
For Further information, Please Contact:
Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide
Robert A. Payne, B.A.A. - Manager International Press
Press Office (Dept. UKM-PS), Corporate Communications (UKM)
60547 Frankfurt am Main, Federal Republic of 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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