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Fraport Traffic Figures - November 2008

Posted on: Thursday, 11 December 2008, 00:00 CST

FRANKFUT/MAIN, Germany, December 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The current global economic slump is also affecting air traffic worldwide. Frankfurt Airport (FRA) served 3.9 million passengers in November 2008, a drop of 7.0 percent year-on-year. Recording the smallest decline, intercontinental passenger traffic slipped by 3.1 percent. Airfreight throughput fell by 8.2 percent to 176,230 metric tons. Aircraft movements shrank by 3.4 percent to 38,733 takeoffs and landings. Only the number of intercontinental passenger flights increased by 0.5 percent.

Total maximum takeoff weights (MTOWs) dropped by 1.1 percent in the reporting month, while the accumulated figure for the first eleven months of 2008 rose by 1.0 percent to 26.3 million metric tons. The number of passengers at Frankfurt Airport dipped by 1.0 percent to 49.7 million in the January-to-November 2008 period. Within this decline, the attractive intercontinental passenger segment still achieved 1.2 percent growth. Airfreight tonnage slipped slightly by 0.3 percent to 1.9 million metric tons. With 449,528 takeoffs and landings, aircraft movements were 1.1 percent lower than in the first eleven months of 2007.

Most of the Fraport Group's majority-owned airports recorded passenger growth in November 2008: Bulgaria's Varna (VAR) and Burgas (BOJ) airports on the Black Sea coast rose by 18.6 and 37.5 percent respectively, Antalya Airport (AYT) in Turkey by 3.9 percent and Lima Airport (LIM) in Peru by 3.3 percent. Only Frankfurt-Hahn Airport (HHN) ebbed by 1.2 percent.

All of the Group's airports, including FRA, reported 1.1 percent growth in the January-to-November 2008 period, raising the total number of passengers to 73.1 million. The cargo segment (airfreight plus airmail) advanced by 1.0 percent to 2.3 million metric tons and aircraft movements climbed by 1.6 percent to 672,829 takeoffs and landings.

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____________________________________________________________________ Frankfurt Airport's Traffic Figures - November 2008 November Change (2) Change (2) 2008 Nov. 08/ Jan. - Jan. - Nov. Nov. 07 Nov. 2008 08/07 Passengers (1) 3,914,060 -7.0 % 49,715,615 -1.0 % Airfreight (1) 176,230 -8.2 % 1,908,283 -0.3 % in metric tons Airmail 7,598 -12.0 % 80,985 -4.7 % in metric tons Aircraft Movements (3) 38,733 -3.4 % 449,528 -1.1 % MTOWs 2,285,759 -1.1 % 26,250,153 1.0 % in metric tons Punctuality 79.4 75.1 share of punctual arrivals and departures in percent (1) Total traffic (arrivals + departures + transit) (2) Change over previous year (3) Excluding military flights Fraport Group - Traffic Figures for November 2008 Airports Passengers(1) Change Cargo Change Aircraft Change absolute in % in in % Movements in % metric absolute tons (incl. airmail) Frankfurt (FRA) 3,913,570 -7.0 181,821 -8.6 38,733 -3.4 Antalya (AYT)(2) 416,887 3.9 n.a. n.a. 3,657 10.6 Burgas (BOJ) 2,297 37.5 0 -100.0 199 -24.6 Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN) 244,569 -1.2 11,151 -12.1 2,765 -8.4 Lima (LIM)(3) 668,396 3.3 23,569 1.7 8,133 0.2 Varna (VAR) 24,141 18.6 n.a. n.a. 482 -7.7 Fraport Group(4) 5,269,860 -4.7 216,541 -7.9 53,969 -2.5 (1) Passengers (commercial traffic: arrivals + departures + transit) (2) Terminal 1 + domestic terminal (adjusted for base value 2007) (3) Figures provided by LIM (4) Base value 2007 = Group Airports (majority owned) as of 2007, plus AYT domestic terminal For Further information, Please Contact: Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide Robert A. Payne, B.A.A. - Manager International Press Press Office (Dept. UKM-PS), Corporate Communications (UKM) 60547 Frankfurt am Main, Federal Republic of Germany Tel.: +49-69-690-78547; Fax: +49-69-690-60548; E-mail: r.payne@fraport.de; Internet: http://www.fraport.com

SOURCE Fraport AG


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