Fraport Traffic Figures - November 2011: Frankfurt Airport Sets New November Monthly Passenger Record / First Month with FRA's New Runway Northwest in Operation

Frankfurt (ots) -

Fraport AG welcomed about 4.3 million passengers at its Frankfurt
Airport (FRA) home base during the reporting month of November 2011.
This represented an increase of 4.3 percent or 178,000 passengers,
compared to the same month last year. Some 52.2 million passengers
used FRA during the eleven-month January-to-November 2011 period - up
6.0 percent year-on-year. Frankfurt Airport set a new November
record, surpassing the previous peak November of 2007 by
approximately 92,000 passengers.

In November 2011 aircraft movements increased by 3.0 percent
year-on-year to 40,111 takeoffs and landings. Similarly, accumulated
maximum takeoff weights (MTOWs) grew by 2.1 percent to 2.36 million
metric tons. With 178,159 metric tons in the reporting month,
airfreight throughput fell by 10.2 percent compared to the historic
November high of 2010. From January to November 2011, airfreight
tonnage dropped by 2.5 percent year-on-year. In contrast, airmail in
November 2011 rose by 5.1 percent to 7,720 metric tons year-on-year.

The Fraport Group's majority-owned airports continued to make a
solid contribution to Group results. Antayla Airport (AYT) in the
Turkish Riviera served more than one million passengers in November
2011 - a surge of 15 percent year-on-year. Setting a similar pace,
Peru's Lima Airport (LIM) recorded about 980,000 passengers and
growth of 9.1 percent in the reporting month. On Bulgaria's Black Sea
coast, Burgas Airport (BOJ) received some 20,000 passengers in
November 2011, while Varna Airport (VAR) remains closed for runway
renovation work until the end of February 2012. By temporarily taking
over VAR's traffic, Burgas saw its passenger growth jump by 228.3
percent year-on-year.

Passenger traffic at the Fraport Group?s five majority-owned
airports (including FRA) exceeded 6.3 million passengers in November
2011 - a gain of 6.4 percent year-on-year.

For Further Information, Please Contact:
Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide
Robert A. Payne, B.A.A. ? Senior Mgr. International Press & PR
International Spokesman, Press Office (Dept. UKM-PS),
Corporate Communications, 60547 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Tel.: +49 69.690.78547; E-mail: r.payne@fraport.de
Internet: www.fraport.com