FRANKFURT,
August 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- An early indicator of
general economic development, airfreight continues its rise from the economic
trough. With about 156,000 metric tons registered in
July 2009, Frankfurt
Airport's (FRA) rate of decline in airfreight moved into the single-figure
range for the first time this year. Freight throughput fell only 9.4 percent
year-on-year; in
June 2009 the drop was still 16.5 percent. Passenger traffic
enjoyed similar satisfying development: Some 4.9 million passengers used
Fraport's home-base airport FRA in the reporting month, only 3.3 percent
fewer passengers than in
July 2008. For the first seven months of the year
FRA's passenger slide narrowed to 7.3 percent.
With 40,462 takeoffs and landings, FRA recorded a 5.3 percent fall in
aircraft movements. Maximum takeoff weights (MTOWs) dropped by 4.3 percent
year-on-year to 2.4 million metric tons.
Fraport's majority-owned foreign airports had only a slight impact on the
Group's total traffic results. Welcoming a total of 7.7 million passengers,
the Group registered a 3.5 percent dip in traffic in July 2009 - a noticeable
improvement over the 5.3 percent average decline experienced so far during
the current year.
Peru's Lima Airport (LIM) saw traffic grow by 1.2 percent in the
reporting month to 759,806 passengers. Turkey's Antalya Airport (AYT)
recorded 1,315,604 passengers, slipping 0.7 percent year-on-year. On
Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, Burgas Airport (BOJ) served 499,148 passengers
(down 11.4 percent) and Varna Airport (VAR) received 269,665 passengers (down
15.6 percent).
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Fraport Group - Traffic Figures for July 2009
Airports Cargo in
metric tons Aircraft
Passengers(1) Change abs. Change Movements Change
absolute in % (+ airmail) in % absolute in %
Frankfurt (FRA) 4,901,417 -3.3 159,446 -10.4 40,462 -5.3
Antalya (AYT)(2) 1,315,604 -0.7 n.a. n.a. 8,734 -3.4
Burgas (BOJ) 499,148 -11.4 534 288.8 3,574 -10.9
Lima (LIM)(3) 759,806 1.2 20,839 -5.3 9,040 7.0
Varna (VAR) 269,665 -15.6 13 2.4 2,193 -16.5
Fraport Group 7,745,640 -3.5 180,832 -9.6 64,003 -4.3
(1) Passengers (commercial traffic: arrivals + departures + transit)
(2) Terminal 1 + domestic terminal
(3) Figures provided by LIM
Frankfurt Airport's Traffic Figures - July 2009
July Change 2 Jan.- July Change(2)
2009 July 09/ 2009 Jan.- July
July 08 09/08
Passengers(1) 4,901,830 -3.3 % 29,058,122 -7.3 %
Airfreight(1) 156,327 -9.4 % 978,796 -19.8 %
in metric tons
Airmail 5,765 -19.5 % 44,929 -13.3 %
in metric tons
Aircraft Movements(3) 40,462 -5.3 % 268,306 -5.7 %
MTOWs 2,396,022 -4.3 % 15,650,993 -5.5 %
in metric tons
Punctuality 77.0 81.9
share of punctual
arrivals and departures
in percent
(1) Total traffic (arrivals + departures + transit)
(2) Change over previous year
(3) Excluding military flights
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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