Airfreight through put at Germany’s largest airport reached 1,047,681 tonnes in the first six months of 2008 – representing a 3.8 per cent rise. Frankfurt Airport(FRA) also recorded its busiest-ever June for airfreight, handling 177,520 tonnes representing a rise of 0.9 per cent on the previous June record in 2007. The airport said that in keeping with expectations, air mail declined by 4.1 per cent to 7,178 tonnes.
From January through June some 26,265,335 passengers used the FRA global air transportation hub – 2.2 percent more than in the same period last year. The number of aircraft movementsat FRA remained steady in June: 41,994 takeoffs and landings represented aslight 0.2 percent year-on-year drop.Nonetheless, accumulated MTOWs continued to climb in June to the new historic high of 2,442,379 metric tons, exceeding the previous record-June in 2007 by 1.1 percent.
Cargo through put at the FraportGroup’s airports climbed 6.1 percent to 1,250,146 tonnes of airfreight and air mail in the first six months of 2008. In addition, aircraft movements at Frankfurt, Frankfurt-Hahn, Lima, Antalya, Burgasand Varna airports increased by 3 per cent to 348,915 take offs and landings.
The Fraport Group’s six majority owned airports registered a total of 36,624,192 passengers in the first two quarters of 2008 – 3.7 per cent more than in the comparable period last year.