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Fraport Traffic Figures - May 2018: Fraport Group Reports Ongoing Robust Growth

13 giugno 2018 | 07.00

LETTURA: 6 minuti

Passenger numbers rise at Frankfurt Airport and across Fraport's Group airports worldwide

FRANKFURT, Germany, June 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- FRA/gk-rap – With ongoing robust traffic growth in May 2018, Frankfurt Airport welcomed some 6.1 million passengers and registered a 9.5 percent increase compared to the previous year. Factors contributing to this growth included the occurrence in May 2018 of several extended holiday weekends, as well as school breaks in some German states. In addition, increased capacity on FRA's European routes spurred passenger growth. During the January-to-May period, Frankfurt Airport achieved accumulated passenger growth of 8.9 percent.

Cargo throughput (airfreight + airmail) dropped slightly by 1.1 percent to 184,555 metric tons in May 2018. Accumulated maximum takeoff weights (MTOWs) expanded by 6.0 percent to some 2.8 million metric tons. Aircraft movements climbed by 9.0 percent to 45,708 takeoffs and landings.

Across the Group, airports in Fraport's international portfolio all recorded strong performance in May 2018. Ljubljana Airport (LJU) in Slovenia's capital city served 167,257 passengers, representing an increase of 14.4 percent. Fraport's two Brazilian airports in Fortaleza (FOR) and Porto Alegre (POA) reported combined traffic growth of 3.2 percent to about 1.1 million passengers. Traffic at the 14 Greek regional airports surged by 21.0 percent to 3.1 million passengers overall. The busiest of the Greek airports included Rhodes Airport (RHO) with 632,152 passengers (up 19.7 percent), Thessaloniki Airport (SKG) with 609,120 passengers (up 16.8 percent), and Chania Airport (CHQ) with 374,089 passengers (up 13.8 percent). Peru's Lima Airport (LIM) posted 11.9 percent traffic growth to about 1.9 million passengers. At the Twin Star airports of Burgas (BOJ) and Varna (VAR) on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, passenger numbers soared by 39.3 percent to a total of 331,648 passengers. Traffic at Antalya Airport (AYT) in Turkey jumped by 36.3 percent to around 3.5 million passengers. Hanover Airport (HAJ) in northern Germany registered a 5.6 percent traffic gain to 574,109 passengers. Pulkovo Airport (LED) in St. Petersburg, Russia, saw traffic advance by 12.9 percent to some 1.6 million passengers. In China, Xi'an Airport (XIY) welcomed about 3.8 million passengers, representing an increase of 9.5 percent.

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Fraport Traffic Figures
May 2018
Fraport Group Airports¹				May 2018						Year to Date (YTD) 2018
			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	6,136,753	9.5	181,117	-1.6	45,708	9.0	26,311,419	8.9	895,080	0.1	201,843	8.5
LJU	Ljubljana	Slovenia	100.00	167,257	14.4	1,026	1.7	3,228	1.7	654,411	15.4	5,032	9.1	13,687	5.0
Fraport Brasil			100.00	1,120,524	3.2	6,644	28.3	11,581	8.9	5,741,739	4.0	32,520	43.2	55,217	3.1
FOR	Fortaleza	Brazil	100.00	472,280	9.0	3,825	17.6	4,624	14.4	2,471,163	3.7	17,551	22.5	21,760	3.2
POA	Porto Alegre	Brazil	100.00	648,244	-0.7	2,819	46.3	6,957	5.4	3,270,576	4.3	14,969	78.5	33,457	3.0
Fraport Regional Airports of Greece A+B			73.40	3,143,697	21.0	732	27.2	24,692	16.1	6,254,796	11.1	3,107	-4.3	55,302	7.1
Fraport Regional Airports of Greece A			73.40	1,696,015	18.3	554	46.2	13,183	14.0	3,892,379	8.1	2,293	-8.6	33,405	6.2
CFU	Kerkyra (Corfu)	Greece	73.40	354,807	23.2	11	> 100.0	2,737	23.6	538,432	27.9	55	> 100.0	5,117	37.9
CHQ	Chania (Crete)	Greece	73.40	374,089	13.8	46	> 100.0	2,385	11.9	721,913	-1.0	177	-4.8	4,843	-5.8
EFL	Kefalonia	Greece	73.40	80,997	35.5	0	n.a.	707	32.4	106,913	42.9	0	n.a.	1,177	27.0
KVA	Kavala	Greece	73.40	31,597	14.6	8	-31.9	330	-8.8	122,431	> 100.0	27	-34.3	1,446	65.8
PVK	Aktion/Preveza	Greece	73.40	53,634	4.3	0	n.a.	466	1.5	59,276	4.8	0	n.a.	809	1.5
SKG	Thessaloniki	Greece	73.40	609,120	16.8	488	40.7	5,164	10.1	2,123,484	2.0	2,029	-11.0	17,954	-1.4
ZTH	Zakynthos	Greece	73.40	191,771	22.7	1	n.a.	1,394	18.8	219,930	21.5	4	n.a.	2,059	14.8
Fraport Regional Airports of Greece B			73.40	1,447,682	24.3	178	-9.5	11,509	18.7	2,362,417	16.4	814	10.5	21,897	8.5
JMK	Mykonos	Greece	73.40	130,018	31.8	10	-16.7	1,371	25.7	197,903	14.1	22	-15.3	2,268	11.2
JSI	Skiathos	Greece	73.40	35,780	2.1	0	n.a.	323	-2.7	40,717	3.0	0	n.a.	535	6.8
JTR	Santorini (Thira)	Greece	73.40	249,702	23.8	18	69.9	2,101	21.6	490,398	21.7	65	22.8	4,357	20.8
KGS	Kos	Greece	73.40	313,184	35.8	23	-29.8	2,337	31.2	398,113	29.8	95	-17.5	3,668	18.6
MJT	Mytilene (Lesvos)	Greece	73.40	41,515	4.7	33	-13.7	434	-16.9	132,152	1.2	166	-0.2	1,694	-15.0
RHO	Rhodes	Greece	73.40	632,152	19.7	69	-9.1	4,401	17.4	1,013,900	12.3	356	39.8	7,868	7.3
SMI	Samos	Greece	73.40	45,331	47.4	24	-8.6	542	9.9	89,234	22.2	111	-9.5	1,507	-6.3
LIM	Lima	Peru²	70.01	1,866,074	11.9	22,357	4.8	15,483	1.9	8,888,992	10.4	109,841	6.9	78,447	5.4
Fraport Twin Star			60.00	331,648	39.3	529	-53.0	2,754	23.4	672,287	52.0	3,825	-32.5	6,236	27.6
BOJ	Burgas	Bulgaria	60.00	163,229	34.1	517	-53.5	1,321	16.8	248,091	42.4	3,787	-31.5	2,319	15.7
VAR	Varna	Bulgaria	60.00	168,419	44.7	11	-4.7	1,433	30.3	424,196	58.2	37	-72.7	3,917	35.9

At equity consolidated airports²
AYT	Antalya	Turkey	51.00	3,500,632	36.3	n.a.	n.a.	20,109	33.2	7,926,301	29.1	n.a.	n.a.	49,959	21.9
HAJ	Hannover	Germany	30.00	574,109	5.6	1,039	-16.7	7,335	-0.4	2,128,088	7.1	7,678	-0.8	29,371	1.1
LED	St. Petersburg	Russia	25.00	1,576,186	12.9	n.a.	n.a.	15,014	13.3	6,035,903	10.9	n.a.	n.a.	60,670	9.0
XIY	Xi'an	China	24.50	3,767,157	9.5	23,832	5.5	28,195	6.1	17,898,947	7.4	110,149	9.2	133,049	3.8

Frankfurt Airport³

May 2018	Month	Δ %	YTD 2018	Δ %
Passengers	6,137,088	9.5	26,312,961	8.9
Cargo (freight & mail)	184,555	-1.1	913,799	0.7
Aircraft movements	45,708	9.0	201,843	8.5
MTOW (in metric tons)⁴	2,793,325	6.0	12,516,713	6.0
PAX/PAX-flight⁵	143.3	0.7	139.6	0.3
Seat load factor (%)	78.4		76.7
Punctuality rate (%)	66.4		71.8


Frankfurt Airport	PAX share	Δ %⁶	PAX share	Δ %⁶
Regional Split	Month	Δ %⁶	YTD	Δ %⁶
Continental	67.0	14.5	63.7	12.8
Germany	10.8	0.1	11.3	4.1
Europe (excl. GER)	56.2	17.7	52.5	14.9
Western Europe	47.0	18.4	43.8	14.8
Eastern Europe	9.2	14.2	8.6	15.4
Intercontinental	33.0	0.6	36.3	2.7
Africa	3.7	11.7	4.4	11.0
Middle East	4.3	-2.1	5.6	2.0
North America	12.9	1.9	11.6	2.5
Central & South Amer.	2.9	5.8	3.8	0.1
Far East	9.2	-5.0	10.8	1.0
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: commerical and non-commercial traffic (arr+dep); ² Preliminary figures; ³ Commercial and non-commercial traffic: Passengers (arr+dep+transit counted once, incl. general aviation), Cargo (arr+dep+transit counted once, in metric tons), Movements (arr+dep); ⁴ Inbound traffic only; ⁵ Scheduled and charter traffic; ⁶ absolute change vs. previous year in % ; *Cargo = Freight + mail

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