Gebr. Heinemann at Frankfurt International Airport Terminal 2.

Following on from its positive first half performance, the Fraport group has reported more of the same in July with business developing well at both its Frankfurt Airport and group airports.

Fraport reported passenger numbers up 4.4% to 6.4m at Frankfurt Airport setting a new monthly record by beating the previous August 2015 ‘all-time high’ by a comfortable 82,000 passengers.

This was also the ninth consecutive year that traffic has risen. As reported, Frankfurt traffic was up by 4.5% between January and July 2017. Frankfurt’s cargo handling also increase by 4.2% to 188,009 in the reporting month, while the total number of aircraft movements grew by 2.3% to 43,482 take-offs and landings.

FRAPORT PORTFOLIO CONTINUES TO PERFORM

Once again, the company reported that its group airports performed strongly, with Slovenia’s capital city airport Ljubljana welcoming 198,138 passengers (+21.4%), followed by Lima Airport (+10.2%) to nearly 1.9m passengers.

Meanwhile, the Fraport Twin Star airports of Varna (VAR) and Burgas (BOJ) on the Bulgarian Black Sea reported a combined 5.4% rise to 1.3m passengers.

Russians are travelling in good numbers again as both the Pulkovo St Petersburg Airport (shown here) passenger volumes show back in Russia, along with the much improved numbers at Fraport’s Antalya Airport in Turkey.

In addition, the 14 Greek airports achieved combined traffic growth of 9.7% to 5mn passengers in July 2017. Rhodes Airport proved the busiest with ‘around’ one million passengers (+4.1%), followed by Thessaloniki Airport with 759,196 (+16%), and Kerkyra Airport on with 619,452 (+4.1%).

In addition, Antalya Airport handled 4.2m pax in July ‘surging by 64.9%’, while back in northern Germany, Hanover Airport reported a 14.9% rise to 660,332 passengers.

Another very strong result was recorded by Pulkovo Airport in St Petersburg, up 23.6% to 1.9m passengers providing even more evidence that Russian travellers are back in much greater numbers.

Last, but not least, China’s Xi’an Airport has been one of the most consistent performers in recent years and it didn’t disappoint in July, turning in an 11.3% rise in passenger traffic to 3.7m passengers.