Fraport AG reports strong Summer passenger traffic figures at several airports within its wide portfolio in the important month of August, including Frankfurt, Lima, Ljubljana and Xi’an in China.

 

The German airports group says Frankfurt handled a total of 6.3m passengers, up 3.2% year-on-year, while on 2 August it set a new daily traffic record of 217,500 passengers served in a single day. In addition, the number of passengers per flight rose again to 156.3, surpassing the July 2015 figure of 152.4.

 

Airport management said: “Correspondingly, aircraft capacity utilization at Frankfurt Airport reached an all-time high of 85.5%. The number of aircraft movements increased slightly by 0.2% year-on-year to 42,787 take offs and landings.

 

Accumulated maximum take-off weights (MTOWs) grew by 2% to more than 2.7m metric tons. Cargo (airfreight and airmail) dropped by 4.2% to 172,055 metric tons, attributable to the weakness in world trade, especially in the Far East.”

 

 

Fraport says some of those airports that performed particular well included Slovenia’s capital city airport Ljubljana (LJU) with dynamic growth of 10.4% to around 180,000 passengers in August, while Lima in Peru reported traffic up by 8.5% to 1.6m.

 

However, Bulgaria’s two airports of Varna (VAR) and Burgas (BOJ) generated a million passengers but registered a 2.9% decline, while Turkey’s Antalya Airport (AYT) showed a slight decrease of 0.5% to 4.5m. St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport (LED) in Russia also received 1.7m passengers, but this was down by 3.7%.

 

There was better news back in northern Germany however, with Hanover Airport reporting positive results for August 2015, with traffic rising by 3.8% to around 590,000 passengers. China’s Xi’an Airport also performed very well, with an 8.9% increase in passenger numbers to 3.1m in August.

 

[In 2014, the Fraport Group generated sales of €2.4bn ($2.7m) and profit of €252m ($284m), with more than 108.5m passengers using airports around the world in which the company has a 50% plus stake-Ed].