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Fraport Traffic Figures - August 2017: Strong Growth Continues at Frankfurt Airport and Fraport's Group Airports

12 settembre 2017 | 07.01

LETTURA: 6 minuti

Passenger traffic at FRA rises for the tenth consecutive month

FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept. 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- FRA/gk-rap – In August 2017, passenger numbers at Frankfurt Airport (FRA) rose by 5.0 percent to nearly 6.3 million passengers. During the eight-month period from January to August 2017, FRA posted accumulated passenger growth of 4.5 percent.

Cargo throughput (airfreight + airmail) also continued to increase by 5.4 percent year-on-year to 181,102 metric tons in the reporting month. FRA's accumulated maximum takeoff weights (MTOWs) surpassed the previous August record achieved in 2015 by about 1,000 metric tons to some 2.7 million metric tons (up 1.8 percent year-on-year). The number of aircraft movements grew by 2.7 percent to 42,934 takeoffs and landings.

Group airports in Fraport AG's international portfolio also continued to deliver strong performance. Slovenia's capital city airport Ljubljana (LJU) welcomed 196,416 passengers, a significant gain of 18.9 percent. Lima Airport (LIM) in Peru posted a 10.5 percent traffic increase to over 1.9 million passengers in the reporting month. The Fraport Twin Star airports of Varna (VAR) and Burgas (BOJ) located on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast registered a combined increase of 4.4 percent to 1.3 million passengers.

The 14 Greek airports achieved combined traffic growth of 8.3 percent to some 5.1 million passengers in August 2017. The busiest of the Greek airports included Rhodes Airport (RHO) with around 1.0 million passengers (up 2.4 percent), Thessaloniki Airport (SKG) with 781,617 passengers (up 14.6 percent) and Kerkyra Airport (CFU) on the island of Corfu with 628,681 passengers (up 2.7 percent).

On the Turkish Riviera, Antalya Airport (AYT) served some 4.3 million passengers in August, jumping by 56.0 percent. In northern Germany, traffic at Hanover Airport (HAJ) climbed by 12.4 percent to 617,320 passengers. Welcoming approximately 1.9 million passengers, Pulkovo Airport (LED) in St. Petersburg, Russia, also recorded strong traffic growth of 21.2 percent. At China's Xi'an Airport (XIY), traffic advanced by 10.1 percent to some 3.8 million passengers.

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Fraport Traffic Figures
August 2017

Fraport Group Airports¹				August 2017						Year to Date (YTD) 2017
			Fraport	Passengers		Cargo*		Movements		Passengers		Cargo		Movements
Fully-consolidated airports			share (%)	Month	Δ %	Month	Δ %	Month	Δ %	YTD	Δ %	YTD	Δ %	YTD	Δ %
FRA	Frankfurt	Germany	100.00	6,291,323	5.0	178,431	5.5	42,934	2.7	42,636,313	4.5	1,443,341	5.2	313,974	0.8
LJU	Ljubljana	Slovenia	100.00	196,416	18.9	1,035	31.0	3,393	-2.9	1,117,497	20.6	7,637	15.1	22,981	5.3
LIM	Lima	Peru²	70.01	1,945,697	10.5	25,655	-0.7	16,573	5.5	13,524,982	8.9	171,984	-0.4	122,250	4.4
Fraport Twin Star			60.00	1,308,397	4.4	1,697	44.8	8,532	1.8	3,941,474	6.3	10,817	25.8	28,716	2.3
BOJ	Burgas	Bulgaria	60.00	864,465	1.8	1,687	45.4	5,490	0.1	2,479,080	3.3	10,646	25.6	17,361	1.5
VAR	Varna	Bulgaria	60.00	443,932	9.8	10	-16.3	3,042	5.1	1,462,394	12.0	171	41.1	11,355	3.5
Fraport Regional Airports of Greece A+B			73.40	5,083,636	8.3	n.a.	n.a.	40,255	14.0	19,707,266	10.4	n.a.	n.a.	161,567	11.2
Fraport Regional Airports of Greece A			73.40	2,661,452	9.7	n.a.	n.a.	20,368	16.3	11,071,011	10.4	n.a.	n.a.	87,501	11.4
CFU	Kerkyra (Corfu)	Greece	73.40	628,681	2.7	n.a.	n.a.	4,568	8.5	2,146,173	4.7	n.a.	n.a.	15,980	4.5
CHQ	Chania (Crete)	Greece	73.40	502,362	4.1	n.a.	n.a.	3,052	3.1	2,211,337	5.1	n.a.	n.a.	14,039	3.6
EFL	Kefalonia	Greece	73.40	157,024	18.5	n.a.	n.a.	1,416	34.6	480,393	13.2	n.a.	n.a.	4,425	18.6
KVA	Kavala	Greece	73.40	62,247	18.5	n.a.	n.a.	554	17.4	226,652	12.7	n.a.	n.a.	2,463	11.1
PVK	Aktion/Preveza	Greece	73.40	128,361	17.9	n.a.	n.a.	1,091	27.8	422,006	19.1	n.a.	n.a.	3,865	18.4
SKG	Thessaloniki	Greece	73.40	781,617	14.6	n.a.	n.a.	6,914	24.2	4,333,773	13.4	n.a.	n.a.	37,536	14.7
ZTH	Zakynthos	Greece	73.40	401,160	13.2	n.a.	n.a.	2,773	15.3	1,250,677	17.2	n.a.	n.a.	9,193	18.1
Fraport Regional Airports of Greece B			73.40	2,422,184	6.8	n.a.	n.a.	19,887	11.9	8,636,255	10.3	n.a.	n.a.	74,066	10.9
JMK	Mykonos	Greece	73.40	297,964	10.0	n.a.	n.a.	4,165	27.7	939,113	19.2	n.a.	n.a.	12,652	34.5
JSI	Skiathos	Greece	73.40	112,357	-0.5	n.a.	n.a.	1,084	13.4	333,336	5.0	n.a.	n.a.	3,286	11.1
JTR	Santorini (Thira)	Greece	73.40	348,412	7.6	n.a.	n.a.	3,108	14.9	1,381,927	11.2	n.a.	n.a.	12,059	18.8
KGS	Kos	Grecce	73.40	480,695	13.6	n.a.	n.a.	3,224	13.1	1,632,754	18.2	n.a.	n.a.	12,075	12.9
MJT	Mytilene (Lesvos)	Greece	73.40	64,459	14.4	n.a.	n.a.	678	2.7	309,938	3.0	n.a.	n.a.	3,952	-3.8
RHO	Rhodes	Greece	73.40	1,030,491	2.4	n.a.	n.a.	6,691	2.1	3,738,968	5.6	n.a.	n.a.	25,943	0.5
SMI	Samos	Greece	73.40	87,806	16.9	n.a.	n.a.	937	18.3	300,219	14.4	n.a.	n.a.	4,099	12.3

At equity consolidated airports²
AYT	Antalya	Turkey	51.00	4,294,589	56.0	n.a.	n.a.	23,558	41.8	17,969,700	42.3	n.a.	n.a.	106,057	27.9
HAJ	Hanover	Germany	30.00	617,320	12.4	1,097	-21.6	7,387	-0.9	3,839,250	7.7	10,876	-12.9	50,938	-0.5
LED	St. Petersburg	Russia	25.00	1,881,419	21.2	n.a.	n.a.	15,535	15.8	10,941,441	24.3	n.a.	n.a.	101,892	17.2
XIY	Xi'an	China	24.50	3,816,958	10.1	21,547	20.1	28,317	9.4	27,543,322	13.4	164,912	13.5	210,559	10.6

Frankfurt Airport³

August 2170	Month	Δ %	YTD 2017	Δ %
Passengers	6,291,670	5.0	42,639,071	4.5
Cargo (freight & mail)	181,102	5.4	1,465,018	4.8
Aircraft movements	42,934	2.7	313,974	0.8
MTOW (in metric tons)⁴	2,722,521	1.8	19,908,936	-0.3
PAX/PAX-flight⁵	155.8	2.1	145.3	3.5
Seat load factor (%)	84.1		79.5
Punctuality rate (%)	71.0		75.3

Frankfurt Airport	PAX share	Δ %⁶	PAX share	Δ %⁶
Regional Split	Month		YTD
Continental	61.8	4.9	62.1	4.5
Germany	9.7	5.6	11.1	3.3
Europe (excl. Germany)	52.1	4.7	51.0	4.8
Western Europe	43.2	4.4	42.4	4.8
Eastern Europe	9.0	6.4	8.6	4.8
Intercontinental	38.2	5.2	37.9	4.6
Africa	4.2	21.2	4.2	16.6
Middle East	5.7	4.0	5.6	3.5
North America	14.9	5.3	13.4	3.2
Central & South America	2.8	-1.7	3.6	0.5
Far East	10.6	2.2	11.1	4.1
Australia	0.0	n.a.	0.0	n.a.

Definitions: 1 According to ACI definition: Passengers: commercial traffic only (arr+dep+transit counted once), Cargo: commercial and non-commercial traffic (arr+dep excluding transit, in metric tons), Movements: commercial and non-commercial traffic (arr+dep); 2 Preliminary figures; 3 According to Fraport definition: Passengers: commercial and non-commercial traffic (arr+dep+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; 6 absolute change vs. previous year in %; 7 HCAA Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (1. -10.4.) & Fraport Regional Airports of Greece (11. - 30.04.) ; * Freight and mail

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