Fraport Traffic Figures - September and First Nine Months 2018: Growth Trend Continues

Frankfurt (ots) -

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

In September 2018, Frankfurt Airport (FRA) welcomed some 6.6
million passengers - an increase of 6.3 percent year-on-year. As in
previous months, the rise was primarily driven by European traffic.
Aircraft movements also climbed by 5.7 percent to 45,950 takeoffs and
landings. Accumulated maximum takeoff weights (MTOWs) increased by
4.0 percent to about 2.8 million metric tons. Cargo throughput
(airfreight + airmail) was the only category to post a slight decline
of 1.4 percent to 185,042 metric tons, reflecting the slowdown in
global trade.

During the January-to-September 2018 period, almost 53.0 million
passengers passed through Frankfurt Airport, representing a gain of
8.4 percent. With 386.048 takeoffs and landings, aircraft movements
were up 8.0 percent. Accumulated MTOWs rose by 5.3 percent, reaching
almost 23.8 million metric tons. Cargo volumes dipped only slightly
by 0.8 percent year-on-year to about 1.6 million metric tons.

Fraport's Group airports worldwide also achieved positive
performance in the first nine months of 2018. At Ljubljana Airport
(LJU) in Slovenia, traffic advanced by 9.7 percent to about 1.4
million passengers (September 2018: up 6.3 percent to 191,823
passengers). Fraport's two Brazilian airports in Fortaleza (FOR) and
Porto Alegre (POA) achieved combined traffic growth of 5.1 percent to
nearly 10.8 million passengers (September 2018: up 8.6 percent to
about 1.2 million passengers).

The Fraport Group's 14 Greek airports served 25.9 million
passengers overall, an increase of 8.9 percent (September 2018: up
8.2 percent to about 4.5 million passengers). The fastest growing
airports in Fraport's Greek portfolio included Thessaloniki (SKG)
with 5.2 million passengers (up 5.1 percent), Rhodes (RHO) with 4.9
million passengers (up 6.3 percent) and Corfu (CFO) with
approximately 3.1 million passengers (up 15.5 percent).

Traffic at Lima Airport (LIM) in the capital of Peru rose by 8.2
percent to almost 16.5 million passengers (September 2018: up 5.1
percent to about 1.8 million passengers). On the Bulgarian Black Sea
coast, the Fraport Twin Star airports in Varna (VAR) and Burgas (BOJ)
concluded the first nine months of 2018 with combined traffic growth
of 12.4 percent to nearly 5.3 million passengers (September 2018: up
6.7 percent to 788,091 passengers). Antalya Airport (AYT) in Turkey
posted a gain of 21.7 percent to almost 26.5 million passengers
(September 2018: up 17.9 percent to about 4.4 million passengers). In
northern Germany, traffic at Hanover Airport (HAJ) was up 8.4 percent
to some 4.9 million passengers (September 2018: up 9.6 percent to
722.769 passengers). Pulkovo Airport (LED) in St. Petersburg, Russia,
reported an 11.1 percent rise to around 14.0 million passengers
(September 2018: up 11.6 percent to around 1.9 million passengers).
Xi'an Airport (XIY) in China welcomed nearly 33.5 million passengers,
an increase of 7.4 percent (September 2018: up 3.6 percent to just
under 3.8 million passengers).

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Fraport AG
Torben Beckmann
Corporate Communications
Media Relations
60547 Frankfurt, Germany

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