Fraport Traffic Figures - November 2012: Airfreight Grows for the First Time This Year - Passenger Traffic Declines

Frankfurt (ots) -

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In November 2012, Fraport AG welcomed about 4.2 million passengers
at its Frankfurt Airport (FRA) home base - down 2.7 percent compared
to the same month last year. With the start of the Winter Timetable
2012/2013, the airlines implemented a wave of consolidation
initiatives because they have been hit hard by the difficult economic
situation in many European countries, turbulent dynamics of the
global economy, and the burden of national aviation taxes. The
reduction in flight destinations and frequencies by the airlines
resulted in the passenger decline during the reporting month.

Looking at the year overall, passenger traffic development remains
unchanged: From January to November 2012 some 53.5 million
passengers used Germany's largest aviation hub - an increase of 2.6
percent compared to the same 11-month period in 2011.

Handling almost 190,000 metric tons in November 2012, FRA recorded
growth in cargo throughput for the first time this year - up 2.1
percent year-on-year. Aircraft movements dropped by 4.6 percent to
about 38,000 takeoffs and landings. The accumulated maximum takeoff
weights (MTOW) dropped by 3.7 percent to about 2.3 million metric
tons.

Fraport's five majority-owned (consolidated) airports - Frankfurt
Airport (FRA), Antalya (AYT), Burgas (BOJ), Varna (VAR) and Lima
(LIM) - together served almost 6.4 million passengers in the
reporting month, a modest increase of 1.0 percent. With more than 1.1
million passengers in the reporting month, Peru's Lima Airport
continued to record particularly robust passenger growth in November
2012. AYT on the Turkish Riviera registered more than one million
passengers in November 2012, a gain over the same period last year.
Fraport's two airports on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, BOJ and VAR,
together received about 33,700 passengers in November 2012.

For Further Information, Please Contact:
Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide
Robert A. Payne,
B.A.A. - International Spokesman and Head of International Press/PR &
External Activities Team, Press Office (UKM-PS), Corporate
Communications
60547 Frankfurt, Germany
Tel.: +49 69.690.78547
E-mail: r.payne@fraport.de
Internet: www.fraport.com