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SAN FRANCISCO, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, LAN Airlines and its affiliates inaugurated their fourth US gateway at San Francisco International Airport with LAN Peru's nonstop service to Lima, Peru. LAN Peru will offer four flights per week to Lima on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday with continuing service to Sao Paulo, Brazil and additional connections available on LAN Airlines and its affiliate carriers to over 50 destinations in South America. (Photo:...
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, June 11, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- With the growth trend stabilizing, Frankfurt Airport (FRA) registered new record levels for both passengers and airfreight in May 2010. FRA welcomed some 4,761,086 passengers and handled more than 200,000 metric tons of airfreight. The previous busiest May was in 2008, when the Fraport Group served 4,742,024 passengers at its FRA home base. Passenger figures jumped a noticeable 7.1 percent in May 2010 compared to May 2009,...
FRANKFURT, April 14, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - FRA's Monthly Cargo Tonnage Exceeds 200,000 Metric Tons for the First Time - Fraport Group Achieves Double-Digit Increase in Passenger Traffic FRA/rap-th> Frankfurt Airport (FRA), owned and managed by Fraport AG, closed the first quarter of 2010 with a 3.9 percent increase in passenger figures. From January through March 2010, the FRA intercontinental air transportation hub served well over 11.3 million passengers. In...
FRANKFURT, March 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- - FRA Reports January-to-February Growth of 1.3 Percent The surge in airfreight tonnage at Frankfurt Airport (FRA) continued throughout February 2010. With 163,469 metric tons in the reporting month, FRA achieved year-on-year growth of 30.1 percent and handled noticeably more airfreight than in January 2010. Thus, even the significant slump in tonnage in February 2009 was nearly offset. Fraport's executive board chairman Dr....
FRANKFURT, Germany, March 3, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- "The best thing about last year's financial results is our outlook for 2010," said Fraport AG executive board chairman Dr. Stefan Schulte as he opened today's annual press conference for fiscal year 2009 and the outlook for 2010. "Meanwhile, we are optimistic that we have risen from the trough of decline following the extremely high traffic fall at the beginning of 2009, which gradually improved quarter by quarter," said Schulte....
FRANKFURT, Germany, February 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Passenger Figures Rise 3.5 Percent - New January Record for Airfreight Despite the weather-related adverse effects on air traffic, Fraport AG - the owner and manager of Frankfurt Airport (FRA) - registered more passengers in January 2010 at FRA than in the comparable month last year. FRA welcomed approximately 3.7 million passengers in the first month of 2010, a 3.5 percent increase year-on-year. "We are...
MIAMI, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Beginning July 1, 2010, LAN Peru - an affiliate of LAN Airlines - will initiate operations to Peru out of San Francisco. The company will offer four flights per week to Lima on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. LAN Peru's new service from San Francisco to Lima offers passengers connecting service to multiple destinations in the region including Sao Paulo, Brazil; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Santiago, Chile. "The announcement of LAN Peru's new service...
FRANKFURT, December 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FRA/rap> In November 2009 traffic development at Frankfurt Airport (FRA) received another strong push forward. "Traffic during the past month has impressively confirmed a clear growth trend and has even partly exceeded our expectations. Frankfurt Airport's traffic figures are climbing noticeably," explained Fraport executive board chairman Dr. Stefan Schulte. In the reporting month, Fraport AG registered 3.9 million passengers at its...
FRANKFURT, September 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Frankfurt Airport's (FRA) traffic results continued to develop positively in August 2009. Germany's largest airport registered about 4.9 million passengers, down only 0.4 percent year-on-year. Fraport executive board chairman Dr. Stefan Schulte is optimistic that the decline has bottomed out. Commenting on the actual traffic figures Schulte said: "From month to month the traffic decline is lessening. In the passenger segment, we have almost...
FRANKFURT, Germany, July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fraport AG recorded a slight recovery in passenger demand at its Frankfurt Airport (FRA) home base in June 2009. Germany's largest airport served approximately 4.5 million passengers last month, down 5.6 percent year-on-year. Thus passenger decline at FRA continued to slow down. The recovery trend accelerated particularly toward the end of the month when the summer vacation period began in several German states. Aircraft...
