Some 4.1 million passengers travelled via Frankfurt Airport (FRA) in January 2024, an increase of 11.1% year-on-year. Passenger numbers for the month in review were still 12.6% below the figure for January 2019 before the pandemic.
Cargo volumes in Frankfurt rose significantly in January 2024, climbing by 8.8% year-on-year to 154,296 metric tonnes. The number of aircraft movements also grew by 4.5% to 31,060 take-offs and landings. At the same time, accumulated maximum take-off weights (MTOWs) rose by 6.4% to around 2.0 million metric tonnes.
Most of the airports in Fraport’s international portfolio also enjoyed positive performance in January 2024. The number of passengers at Slovenia’s Ljubljana Airport (LJU) increased significantly by 29.8% year-on-year to 75,196 travellers. Meanwhile, numbers at the Brazilian airports of Fortaleza (FOR) and Porto Alegre (POA) were down by 6.3% at approximately 1.1 million overall. Traffic at Lima Airport (LIM) in Peru’s capital city surged by 21.4% to around 2.0 million passengers. Fraport’s 14 Greek regional airports welcomed a total of 640,461 passengers, an increase of 7.4%. In Bulgaria, the Twin Star airports of Burgas (BOJ) and Varna (VAR), combined, registered 85,231 passengers (down 12.0%). Traffic at Antalya Airport (AYT) on the Turkish Riviera rose by 4.4% to 950,421 passengers.
Total traffic at the airports actively managed by Fraport grew by 9.5% year-on-year to approximately 8.9 million passengers in January 2024.