Fraport Traffic Figures - February 2012: Passenger Traffic and Cargo Volume Affected by Strike and Economic Slowdown

Frankfurt (ots) -

- Cross-reference: Fraport's Traffic Figures are available at:
http://www.presseportal.de/dokumente -

Frankfurt Airport (FRA) served approximately 3.6 million
passengers in February 2012 - a slight increase of 0.7 percent
compared to the same month of the previous year. Due to a strike
conducted by the German union of air traffic controllers (GdF) in a
dispute over pay and conditions, almost 1,700 flights were cancelled
in February causing a loss of some 170,000 passengers. The negative
impact of the strike far outweighed the positive effect on passenger
traffic resulting from the extra day gained in February due to leap
year. For the period spanning the first two months of the year 2012,
however, Frankfurt Airport still recorded an increase in passenger
traffic of 3.2 percent to 7.7 million passengers year-on-year in
total.

Aircraft movements at Frankfurt Airport declined by 4.6 percent to
34,392 takeoffs and landings compared to February 2011, due the GdF
strike and adverse winter weather in the first half of the month.
This corresponds to a cumulative decrease of 1.9 percent. Total
accumulated maximum takeoff weights (MTOWs) slipped by 2.2 percent to
approximately 2.1 million metric tons. In the airfreight segment,
traffic dropped by 9.1 percent to 155,105 metric tons year-on-year.
The decline in airfreight was only half of that in January 2012.
This, however, was exclusively due to the extra day (leap year), plus
the impact of the two-week-long Chinese New Year's festival. Last
year the festival fell completely in the month of February, this year
it commenced on January 23 and ended in early February. Airmail, by
contrast, posted a visible gain of 7.1 percent to some 6,000 metric
tons year-on-year.

Fraport's majority-owned airports around the world served a total
of 5.3 million passengers in the reporting month - growing by 2.5
percent year-on-year. Around 1 million passengers passed through
Peru's Lima Airport (LIM) in February 2012, representing an increase
of almost 15 percent. With 608,000 passengers, Antalya Airport (AYT)
on the Turkish Riviera recorded a decline of 3.2 percent on the
previous year. On the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, traffic surged at
Burgas Airport (BOJ) by 77.4 percent to some 19,000 passengers. This
rise can be attributed partially to the diversion of traffic from
Varna Airport (VAR), which has been temporarily closed for
reconstruction work from October 15, 2011, to February 28, 2012.

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