FRANKFURT, Germany,
June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Public Holidays and Bridge Days Lead
to Reductions in the Flight Schedule
Fraport AG welcomed nearly 5.13 million passengers at its
Frankfurt Airport (FRA) home base in May
2013. Never before in the month of May have so many
passengers used Germany's largest
aviation hub. Increasing by 0.4 percent year-on-year, FRA's
passenger volume surpassed the previous record May of 2012. This
growth is all the more gratifying because the airlines reduced
their flight schedules, especially domestic and European traffic,
to adjust for the unusual abundance of public holidays
(May 1, 20 and 30) and bridge days in
May 2013. Intercontinental
traffic - advancing by 2.2 percent - continued to be FRA's dominant
growth driver.
Because of the public holiday effect, aircraft movements at FRA
dropped by 2.6 percent to 41,930 takeoffs and landings, while cargo
throughput declined slightly by 0.7 percent to 173,600 metric tons.
Accumulated MTOWs (maximum takeoff weights) fell accordingly
by 2.4 percent to nearly 2.5 million metric tons.
Fraport's five majority-owned airports served a total of about
9.6 million passengers in May 2013,
up 7.1 percent year-on-year. In particular, Lima (LIM) and Antalya (AYT) airports achieved
double-digit passenger growth, contributing again to the Group's
overall traffic increase. LIM in the Peruvian capital
welcomed about 1.25 million passengers, while AYT on the Turkish
Riviera received some
3 million passengers. Together, the airports of
Varna (VAR) and Burgas (BOJ) on
the Bulgarian Black Sea coast recorded 183,000 passengers in
May 2013.
Traffic Figures - Frankfurt Airport (FRA)
Total Traffic Month yoy DELTA% YTD yoy DELTA%
Passengers [1] 5,130,301 0.4 21,734,107 -1.5
Cargo
(freight+mail in
t)[2] 173.641 -0.7 849.739 0.5
Aircraft
Movements 41.932 -2.6 187.162 -4.3
MTOWs (in metric
tons) 2,490,209 -2.4 11,177,021 -4.2
Punctuality (in
percent) 85.6 82.0
Traffic Figures - Fraport Group
Based on ACI
definition Cargo
(Airports (freight+mail) in
Council Intl.) Passengers [3] t [4] Movements
yoy yoy yoy
Month DELTA% Month DELTA% Month DELTA%
Frankfurt (FRA) 5,129,907 0.4 171,121 -0.6 41,932 -2.6
Antalya (AYT) 3,031,266 15.9 n.a. n.a. 18,902 12.1
Burgas (BOJ) 113,926 30.7 110 -78.8 1,125 16.9
Lima (LIM)[6] 1,250,345 15.5 23,388 5.7 12,876 5.5
Varna (VAR) 69,157 9.8 4 3.0 846 5.0
Group 9,594,601 7.1 194,624 -0.1 75,681 2.4
Cargo
(freight+mail) in
Jan.-May. 2013 Passengers [3] t [4] Movements
yoy yoy yoy
YTD DELTA% YTD DELTA% YTD DELTA%
Frankfurt (FRA) 21,731,996 -1.5 835,281 0.4 187,162 -4.3
Antalya (AYT) 6,795,072 9.3 n.a. n.a. 47,612 6.8
Burgas (BOJ)[5] 169,501 2.9 1,276 77.7 2,058 -18.1
Lima (LIM)[6] 5,930,331 12.5 105,298 5.4 62,403 5.7
Varna (VAR)[5] 149,360 43.5 10 8.5 2,049 37.8
Group 34,776,260 2.8 941,864 1.0 301,284 -0.6
[1] Commerical and non-commercial traffic
[2] Cargo including transit (in metric tons)
[3] Passengers - commercial traffic only
[4] Cargo excluding transit (in metric tons)
[5] Varna was closed from 15.10.2011 to 28.02.12.
Burgas handled all VAR flights during this period.
[6] Figures provided by LIM
For Further Information, Please Contact:
Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide
Robert A. Payne - International
Spokesman; Head of International Press & External Activities
Team, Press Office (UKM-PS), Corporate Communications, 60547
Frankfurt, Germany; Tel.:
+49-69-690-78547; E-mail: r.payne@fraport.de; Internet:
http://www.fraport.com;