Fraport Traffic Figures - August 2014: Frankfurt Airport Records Strong Growth

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FRA Exceeds Six Million Passengers for the First Time in a Single
Month - Passenger Growth Surpasses Five Percent - Cargo Tonnage Rises
More Than Three Percent

Welcoming 6.1 million passengers, Frankfurt Airport (FRA) achieved
a new monthly passenger record by exceeding the six million passenger
mark for the first time in a single month. This represented
noticeable growth of 5.4 percent year-on-year. Furthermore, FRA's
daily traffic volume surpassed the 200,000 passenger level 13 times
in August 2014. Previously, FRA had only passed this daily traffic
peak four times within a single month. Frankfurt Airport also
registered its busiest traffic day in history on August 17, 2014,
when Germany's largest aviation hub served 210,599 passengers. FRA's
cargo throughput (airfreight and airmail) rose by 3.2 percent to
179,555 metric tons, up 3.2 percent compared to the same month last
year. Aircraft movements also climbed by 0.6 percent to 42,684
takeoffs and landings.

The airports in Fraport AG's international portfolio continued to
steer a steady growth path in August 2014. Peru's Lima Airport (LIM)
received 1.5 million passengers in the reporting month, a gain of 7.6
percent year-on-year. On the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, Burgas (BOJ)
and Varna (VAR) airports together greeted 1.1 million passengers (up
4.7 percent). Some 4.5 million passengers used Antalya Airport (AYT)
on the Turkish Riviera, a nine percent increase. With 1.7 million
passengers, Russia's St. Petersburg Airport (LED) registered
double-digit growth of 10.9 percent. With almost 2.9 million
passengers, Xi'an Airport (XIY) in central China also saw similar
growth of 10.1 percent. Germany's Hanover Airport (HAJ) reported
568,044 passengers and growth of 9.7 percent year-on- year.

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Fraport AG - which ranks among the world's leading companies in
the global airport business - offers a full range of integrated
airport management services and boasts subsidiaries and investments
on five continents, In 2013, the Fraport Group generated sales of
E2.56 billion, EBITDA of E880.2 million and profit of about E236
million. Last year, more than 103 million passengers used airports
around the world in which Fraport has a majority stake.

At its Frankfurt Airport (FRA) home base, Fraport welcomed more
than 58 million passengers in 2013 and handled some 2.1 million
metric tons of cargo (airfreight and airmail). For the current flight
timetable, FRA is served by 108 passenger airlines flying to some 295
destinations in 105 countries worldwide. More than half of FRA's
destinations are intercontinental (beyond Europe) - underscoring
Frankfurt's role as a leading hub in the global air transportation
system. In Europe, Frankfurt Airport ranks first in terms of cargo
tonnage and is the third-busiest for passenger traffic. With well
over 50 percent of all passengers using Frankfurt as a connecting
hub, FRA also has the highest transfer rate among the major European
hubs.

Frankfurt Airport City has become Germany's largest job complex at
a single location, employing more than 78,000 people at some 500
companies and organizations directly on site. Almost half of
Germany's population lives within a 200-kilometer radius of the FRA
intermodal travel hub - the largest airport catchment area in Europe.
FRA Airport City also serves as a magnet for other companies located
throughout the economically vital Frankfurt/Rhine-Main- Neckar
region. Thanks to synergies associated with the region's dynamic
industries, networked expertise, and outstanding intermodal
transportation infrastructure, FRA's world route network enables
Hesse's and Germany's export-oriented businesses to flourish in
global growth markets.

Frankfurt Airport meets the increasing needs of the flourishing
export-oriented economies of the State of Hesse as well as Germany as
a whole, for optimal connections to growth markets around the globe.
Likewise, FRA is also a strategic gateway for companies wanting to
access the huge European marketplace. Thus, Frankfurt Airport -
which is strategically located in the heart of Europe, is one of the
most important hubs in the world and a key infrastructure site for
Germany and Europe.

Major new real estate developments - such as The Squaire, the
Gateway Gardens business park, and the Mönchhof Logistics Park, etc.
- are creating an exciting new dimension and range of services at the
evolving Frankfurt Airport City of the 21st century.

Contact:
Fraport AG
Robert A. Payne
International Spokesman
Press Office, Corp.Communications
60547 Frankfurt, Germany

Telephone: +49 69 690-78547
E-mail: r.payne@fraport.de
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