Fraport traffic figures for March 2017

In March 2017, Frankfurt Airport served some 4.9 million passengers, up 1.8% year-on-year. Thus, the previous March record achieved in 2016 was exceeded by around 85,000 passengers. Without a number of flight cancellations, mainly due to strikes at airports in Berlin, passenger traffic would have increased by 2.3%. Cargo volumes soared by 9.8% to 205,443 metric tons – the highest monthly growth rate recorded over the previous six years. This was helped by a more favorable timing of weekdays compared to the previous year and the fact that Easter falls in April this year. The number of aircraft movements rose by 1.1% to 37,924 takeoffs and landings in March 2017. With approximately 2.4 million metric tons, maximum takeoff weights shrank by 1.0% compared to the same month of the previous year. Across the Group, airports in Fraport’s international portfolio showed largely positive performance in the first quarter of 2017. Ljubljana Airport (LJU) in the capital of Slovenia welcomed 288,355 passengers in the first three months of the year, an increase of 17.5%. Lima Airport (LIM) in Peru recorded a 7.4% increase to about 4.8 million passengers. The two Twin Star airports of Varna (VAR) and Burgas (BOJ) on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, combined, served 126,033 passengers, thus posting growth of 7.6%. By contrast, the airports of Antalya (AYT) in Turkey and Hanover (HAJ) in northern Germany registered declines of 10.1% to some 2.1 million passengers and 2.8% to 979,658 passengers, respectively. Pulkovo Airport (LED) in St. Petersburg, Russia, saw traffic improve by 25.3% to almost 2.9 million passengers in the first quarter of 2017, while Xi’an Airport (XIY) in China welcomed more than 9.8 million passengers, an increase of 14.4%.