Fraport Traffic Figures - January 2012: Off to a Flying Start in the Year of the Dragon / Group Airports Achieve Strong 6.6 Percent Growth

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FRA/rap> Fraport AG welcomed 4.1 million passengers at Frankfurt
Airport (FRA) in the first month of the New Year - resulting in a 5.5
percent traffic jump year-on-year at Germany?s largest airport.
Reasons for this growth included the favorable winter weather
conditions (absence of snow) which contributed to optimum operations
in January 2012. FRA's strong punctuality figure of 85.1 percent in
January 2012 was also positively affected by the favorable weather,
in combination with increased capacity and operational flexibility
created by the new Runway Northwest inaugurated in October 2011.

Aircraft movements at Frankfurt Airport rose slightly by 0.7
percent to 37,651 takeoffs and landings year-on-year. In comparison,
total accumulated maximum takeoff weights (MTOWs) slipped by 1.6
percent to approximately 2.2 million metric tons. In the airfreight
segment, traffic dropped by 16.8 percent to 141,340 metric tons
year-on-year. Factors contributing to this decline included
uncertainty in the global economy as well as the existing nighttime
flight curfew imposed at the beginning of FRA's Winter Timetable
2011/2012. Another factor was the impact on Far East traffic of the
production slowdown during the two-week-long Chinese New Year?s
festival that started on January 23rd - whereas last year it fell
completely in the month of February. Airmail posted a visible gain of
3.0 percent to about 6,900 metric tons year-on-year.

Fraport's five majority-owned airports (AYT, FRA, BOJ, LIM, VAR)
served a total of 5.7 million passengers in the reporting month -
growing by 6.6 percent year-on-year. Increasing by 8.0 percent
year-on-year, traffic at Peru?s Lima Airport (LIM) exceeded the one
million passenger mark in January 2012. Antalya Airport (AYT) on the
Turkish Riviera recorded nearly 600,000 passengers, representing
double-digit growth of 14.5 percent year-on-year.

On the Bulgaria Black Sea coast, traffic surged at Burgas Airport
(BOJ) by more than 150 percent to some 21,000 passengers. This rise
can be attributed partially to the diversion of traffic from Varna
Airport (VAR), which has been temporarily closed for reconstruction
work from October 15, 2011, to February 28, 2012.

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Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide
Robert A. Payne, B.A.A. - Senior Mgr. International Press & PR
International Spokesman, Press Office (Dept. UKM-PS), Corporate
Communications,

60547 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Tel.: +49 69.690.78547;
E-mail: r.payne@fraport.de
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