Fraport Traffic Figures - June and First Half 2013

Frankfurt (ots) -

- Traffic figures are available at:
http://www.presseportal.de/dokumente -

Frankfurt's Cargo Rises While Passenger Volume Drops Slightly in
the First Half - Busiest June Ever for Passenger Traffic at FRA -
Group's Majority-owned Airports Serve More Than 45 Million Passengers
in First Six Months of the Year

Fraport AG welcomed 5.4 million passengers at its Frankfurt
Airport (FRA) home base in June 2013: an increase of 40,000
passengers year-on-year and the busiest June in the history of FRA -
even though the traditionally busy Hesse summer vacation already
started in June last year. For the current year, this special
vacation effect will first show up in the July traffic figures.
Aircraft movements declined by 1.4 percent to 42,131 takeoffs and
landings in June 2013. Cargo traffic rose again in June 2013,
increasing by 2.7 percent year-on-year to 184,948 metric tons.

Traffic in the first half of 2013 continued to be affected by the
consolidation measures of various airlines at Frankfurt.
Furthermore, a variety of weather and strike-related flight
cancellations - impacting around 340,000 passengers - also had a
negative impact on FRA's traffic figures. These factors caused the
first-half figures to slip by one percent to 27.1 million passengers.
Without these disruptive events, FRA would have reached the previous
year's level. In the first six months of the year, the same factors
resulted in aircraft movements dropping by 3.8 present year-on-year
to 229,293 takeoffs and landings. As already evident in the first
quarter of 2013, cargo traffic currently seems to have emerged from
the economic trough: Cargo tonnage exceeded one million metric tons,
up about one percent year-on-year.

In June 2013, Fraport's five majority-owned airports - Frankfurt
(FRA), Antalya (AYT), Burgas (BOJ), Varna (VAR) and Lima (LIM) -
registered a 4.6 percent traffic rise to a total of 10.8 million
passengers. These airports also handled a combined total of 205,119
metric tons of cargo, up 1.9 percent. Aircraft movements at the
Group's airports rose by 1.4 percent to almost 90,000 takeoffs and
landings.

From January to June 2013, the Fraport Group served more than 45.6
million passengers at its majority-owned airports - an increase of
3.2 percent compared to the same period last year. Cargo activity
grew by 1.2 percent to about 1.15 million metric tons. Group-wide,
aircraft movements declined slightly by 0.2 percent to 382,278
takeoffs and landings during the first six months of the year. Growth
drivers again included Peru's Lima Airport (up 12.6 percent) with 7.1
million passengers and Turkey's Antalya Airport (up 8.8 percent) with
10.3 million passengers. On the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, Burgas
Airport welcomed more than 630,000 passengers (up 5.3 percent) and
Varna received 388,000 passengers (up 17.2 percent).

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: www.fraport.com;