Fraport Fiscal Year 2005: Fraport Continues Success Course in 2005: Revenues and Financial Results Increase Noticeably - Executive Board Recommends Dividend of 90 Euro Cents

Frankfurt/Main, Germany (ots) -

Preliminary Figures - Subject to Supervisory Board Approval

Fiscal 2005 was another banner year for the Fraport Group
(FSE:FRA), with revenues rising by 4.6 percent to EUR 2.1 billion.
EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and
amortization) and profit for the year again grew disproportionately
faster than revenues. Fraport's executive board is recommending a
dividend payment of 90 euro cents per share for fiscal 2005, 20
percent more than in the previous year.

Speaking at the company's annual financial press conference,
Fraport AG's executive board chairman Dr. Wilhelm Bender emphasized
that Fraport's record sales topped the EUR 2 billion mark for the
first time because of three essential factors: higher revenues from
security services, an increase in traffic fees due to rising maximum
takeoff weights (MTOWs) at Frankfurt Airport (FRA), as well as
extraordinary results from car parking and retailing at the company's
FRA home base.

The revenue growth achieved in 2005 positively affected EBITDA.
Climbing by 6.1 percent to EUR 547.5 million, EBITDA again grew
disproportionately faster than revenues, due to strict cost
management. The increase in net income for the year was even more
marked: With EUR 161.5 million, the profit for the year exceeded
the 2004 level by 17.4 percent. In view of this gratifying business
development, the executive board will recommend to the Annual General
Meeting (AGM) a dividend payment of EUR 0.90 per share at an
unchanged payout ratio of about 50 percent. This is EUR 0.15 or 20
percent more than in the previous year.

Fraport's Frankfurt Airport achieved a new passenger record in
2005, when a total of about 52.2 passengers used the airport - 2.2
percent more than in the previous record year of 2004. Airfreight
tonnage handled at FRA rose 8.1 percent to 1.9 million metric tons -
also a new record figure. Together, the Fraport Group's airports
served approximately 72.1 passengers last year, 6.4 percent less than
in 2004 due to the traffic decline at Antalya Airport in Turkey. All
other shareholdings of the Fraport Group developed very positively
during the past twelve months, some showing even double-digit growth
rates. Cargo tonnage for the Group's airports rose by 7.6 percent to
about 2.4 million metric tons.

The number of staff employed by companies in the Fraport Group
grew by about six percent to nearly 28,000 people in 2005. In
percentage terms, employment at Frankfurt grew even stronger.
Fraport employed 17,830 people in Frankfurt at year end 2005 - 7.4
percent more than one year ago. "This development sets a clear
signal in these ongoing economically difficult times," said Dr.
Bender. "In our age of globalization, air transportation is a growth
industry offering job opportunities for many people - especially in
Germany."

For the 2006 business year, Fraport expects the long-term growth
trend in the aviation industry to continue. The company anticipates
passenger figures at Frankfurt Airport to grow by about two percent.
Fraport assumes that both volume growth and the increase in airport
charges (which went into effect at the beginning of 2006) will have
a positive impact on the Group's revenues in the current fiscal year.
Furthermore, higher income from security services and retailing is
to be expected for 2006.

A corresponding climb in EBITDA and a noticeable increase in
annual profits can be expected. "Our optimism regarding results is
based on Fraport's ongoing efforts to improve efficiency, whereby we
are striving to ensure a disproportionately lower increase in staff
and non-staff costs," said Dr. Bender. For 2006, Fraport plans to
keep the payout ratio of dividends stable at about 50 percent.

All figures stated for the 2005 fiscal year are preliminary until
March 27, when Fraport AG's supervisory board will approve the 2005
Statement of Accounts. On March 28, Fraport's Annual Report 2005
will be available in printed form and also online via the Internet
(www.fraport.de). Fraport AG's AGM will be held on May 31 at the
Jahrhunderthalle in Frankfurt-Hoechst, Germany.

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For More 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: www.fraport.de


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