Record Frankfurt traffic +4.1% to 28.9m in HY1

By Doug Newhouse |

Fraport AG reports new half year and monthly traffic records for Frankfurt Airport between January and June 2015, with 28.9m passengers (+4.1%) and 5.7m (+2.8%) alone in the month of June alone.

 

The average number of passengers per flight rose to 135.4 – another record – while aircraft movements remained stable (up 0.2%) at 229,582 take-offs and landings for the same period. However, FRA’s cargo throughput (airfreight and airmail) declined by -1.8% to about 1.04m metric tons between January-June and by -2.5%. in June to around 173,984 metric tons.

 

June aircraft movements experienced a moderate increase of 0.8% to 42,288 take-offs and landings, while Frankfurt also registered a new June record for the number of passengers per flight (145.7 passengers) and the MTOW (maximum take off weight) per aircraft movement (124.2 metric tons).

 

Dr. Stefan Schulte, Executive Board Chairman, Fraport AG.

Notes: (1) According to ACI identity definition; (2) Preliminary figures.

 

Fraport AG’s Executive Board Chairman Dr. Stefan Schulte commented: “These figures prove that aircraft movements have had only an under-proportional impact on Frankfurt’s passenger growth – due to larger aircraft being deployed and to higher seat-load factors for flights operating at FRA.

 

”Overall, Fraport AG’s international Group airports also reported gains in passenger traffic.  The newest member of the Fraport family, Slovenia’s Ljubljana Airport (LJU), received 626,525 passengers year-on-year and recorded dynamic growth of 9.7% in the first half.  In June 2015, LJU welcomed 149,541 passengers, a jump of 17% year-on-year.

 

“In South America, Peru’s Lima Airport (LIM) also saw traffic advance by 8.7% to 8m passengers in the first six months of 2015 and by 8.4% to1.3m passengers in June 2015.”

 

Notes: (3) Passengers: commercial and non-commercial traffic (arriving, departing and transit counted once incl. General Aviation); cargo: commercial and non-commercial traffic (arr+dep+transit) counted once, in metric tons); Movements: commercial and non-commercial traffic (arr+dep). (4) Inbound traffic only. (5) Scheduled and charter traffic.

 

Fraport management added that Varna (VAR) and Burgas (BOJ) on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast experienced a 12.8% decline in passenger numbers in the first half to 948,519 passengers and a 16.4% decline in June 2015 to 632,172 passengers. On the Turkish Riviera, Antalya Airport (AYT) also saw traffic fall by 4.2% in the first six months of the year to 10.5m passengers and by 6.9% to 3.6m in June 2015.

 

From January to June 2015, Russia’s St. Petersburg Airport (LED) experienced a similar decline of 4.3% to 6.1m passengers and within that, an 8.3% fall in June 2015 to about 1.5m passengers.

 

Last, but not least, Fraport’s minority-owned airport in Hanover (HAJ), northern Germany, showed rising passenger figures, with about 2.5m in the first half (+5.3%) and 537,323 in June 2015 (+8%). Xi’an Airport (XIY) in Central China handled 15.7m passengers in the first half of 2015 – up 15.3% – while the airport’s June traffic was up +11.3% to ‘about’ 2.7m according to Fraport.

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