Fraport Traffic Figures - June and First Half 2014

FRANKFURT, Germany, July 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

Traffic Continues to Grow at Frankfurt Airport - Positive Development at Group's International Airports  

Frankfurt Airport (FRA) welcomed 27.8 million passengers  in the first six months of 2014 - up 2.4 percent year-on-year - a new historic half-year passenger record.  Cargo (airfreight and airmail) throughput at FRA reached 1.1 million metric tons in the first half of 2014, up 2.2 percent compared to the previous year.  Despite this growth, aircraft movements at FRA remained stable with 229,039 takeoffs and landings (down 0.1 percent) for the same period. Due to the deployment of larger aircraft, accumulated maximum takeoff weights (MTOWs) at Frankfurt Airport climbed by 1.9 percent to 14 million metric tons.  "This growth is developing within the expected range.  Further gains in efficiency, the ongoing replacement of older planes with new-generation quieter aircraft, as well as the stability and reliability of Frankfurt's flight timetable contributed to this satisfying development at Frankfurt Airport," explained Fraport AG's executive board chairman Dr. Stefan Schulte.

With 5.6 million passengers served in June 2014 (up 3.3 percent year-on-year), FRA recorded its busiest June in the history of the airport.   Accumulated MTOWs at Germany's largest airport hit 2.6 million metric tons (up 2.3 percent).  Cargo (airfreight and airmail) dropped by 3.5 percent to 178,384 metric tons, while aircraft movements slipped by 0.4 percent to 41,949 takeoffs and landings at Frankfurt.

Fraport AG's international Group airports also reported a gain in passenger traffic. Peru's Lima Airport (LIM) received 7.4 million passengers (up 4.1 percent) in the first six months of 2014 and 1.2

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million passengers (up 2.1 percent) in June 2014.  On the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, the airports in Varna (VAR) and Burgas (BOJ) together had 1.1 million passengers in the first half (up 6.7 percent) and 756,187 passengers (up 8 percent) in June 2014.  On the Turkish Riviera, Antalya Airport (AYT) saw traffic rise by 6.5 percent in the first six months of the year to 11 million passengers and by 8.3 percent in June 2014 to 3.8 million passengers.  Russia's St. Petersburg Airport (LED) generated noticeable double-digit growth of 12.8 percent in both June 2014 (1.6 million passengers) as well as the first half of the year (6.4 million passengers).  Welcoming 13.7 million passengers from January to June 2014, Xi'an Airport (XIY) in central China reported a 10.6 percent jump in traffic.  In the reporting month, XIY greeted 2.4 million passengers, an increase of 9.4 percent year-on-year.  Only Fraport's minority-owned airport in Hanover (HAJ), Germany, experienced declining passenger figures,  with 2.3 million in the first half (down 2.3 percent) and 497,555 in June 2014 (down 3.7 percent).

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    Fraport Group Airports[1]
                                                            Cargo (Freight &
    June 2014                    Fraport     Passengers          Mail)         Movements
                                                     Change                          Change
                                share in %   Month     %     Month   Change %  Month    %
    Fully-consolidated
    airports
              Frankfurt,
    FRA       Germany               100.00 5,585,795   3.4   175,523     -3.8 41,949  -0.4
    LIM       Lima, Peru[2]          70.01 1,222,011   2.1    23,524      4.2 12,640   3.3
    BOJ       Burgas, Bulgaria       60.00   498,736   8.2       484   >100.0  3,872  10.3
    VAR       Varna, Bulgaria        60.00   257,451   7.6         8     96.8  2,121  10.0

    At equity consolidated
    airports[2]
    AYT       Antalya, Turkey        51.00 3,827,078   8.3      n.a.     n.a. 22,425   5.8
              St. Petersburg,
    LED       Russia                 35.50 1,626,631  12.8      n.a.     n.a. 14,565   3.6
    HAJ       Hanover, Germany       30.00   497,555  -3.7     1,138     -7.7  6,866  -4.3
    XIY       Xi'an, China           24.50 2,383,634   9.4    13,816      2.8 20,404   8.0

    Fraport Group Airports
    Year to Date (YTD)                                     Cargo (Freight &
    2014[1]                     Fraport      Passengers          Mail)         Movements
                                                     Change            Change        Change
                               share in %    YTD       %      YTD        %      YTD     %
    Fully-consolidated
    airports
              Frankfurt,
    FRA       Germany              100.00 27,787,828   2.4 1,042,927     2.5 229,039  -0.1
    LIM       Lima, Peru[2]         70.01  7,410,625   4.1   130,584     2.1  74,539  -0.1
    BOJ       Burgas, Bulgaria      60.00    666,533   5.7     2,754  >100.0   5,766   3.6
    VAR       Varna, Bulgaria       60.00    420,650   8.3        22    64.5   4,245   6.7

    At equity consolidated
    airports2
    AYT       Antalya, Turkey       51.00 11,003,326   6.5      n.a.    n.a.  72,555   5.5
              St. Petersburg,
    LED       Russia                35.00  6,367,697  12.8      n.a.    n.a.  68,936  10.6
    HAJ       Hanover, Germany      30.00  2,334,266  -2.3     7,344    -1.4  37,011   1.9
    XIY       Xi'an, China          24.50 13,654,108  10.6    86,545     4.4 116,022   7.6

    Frankfurt Airport[3]             Change             Change
    June 2014                Month      %   YTD 2014       %
    Passengers           5,586,232     3.3 27,790,749     2.4
    Cargo (freight &
    mail)                  178,384    -3.5  1.057.948     2.2
    Aircraft movements      41,949    -0.4    229,039    -0.1
    MTOW (in metric
    tons)[4]             2,563,765     2.3 13,950,359     1.9
    PAX/PAX-flight[5]        142.2     3.2      130.0     2.2
    Seat load factor (%)      80.6               75.1
    Punctuality rate (%)      79.7               84.8

    Frankfurt                                     PAX
    Airport Regional   PAX share                share     YTD
    Split                  month Month Change %   YTD Change %
    Germany                10.8%            0.1 11.4%     1.9
    Europe (without
    Germany)               53.5%            7.9 50.7%     6.5
    Western Europe         44.3%            7.8 42.2%     6.3
    Eastern Europe          9.2%            8.5  8.5%     7.4
    Intercontinental       35.6%           -1.9 37.9%    -2.4
    Africa                  3.6%           -8.8  4.0%    -9.3
    Middle East             4.4%            1.0  5.4%     2.3
    North America          14.8%            1.5 13.3%     0.8
    Central & South
    America                 3.1%           -4.3  3.9%    -5.5
    Far East                9.7%           -4.4 11.2%    -3.7
    Australia               0.0%         -100.0  0.0%  -100.0
    [1] According to ACI-definition:
    Passengers: commercial traffic only (arr+dep+transit
    counted once)
    Cargo: commercial and non-commercial traffic
    (arr+dep excluding transit, in metric tons)
    Movements: commerical and non-commercial traffic
    (arr+dep)
    [2] Preliminary figures
    [3] Passengers: commercial and non-commercial traffic (arr+dep+transit
    counted once incl. General Aviation)
    Cargo: commercial and non-commercial traffic (arr+dep+transit counted
    once, in metric tons)
    Movements: commerical and non-commercial traffic (arr+dep)
    [4] Inbound traffic only
    [5] Scheduled and charter traffic

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