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Fraport Traffic Figures - February 2009:
Fraport Traffic Figures - February 2009:.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n\n\n\nFRANKFURT, March 11 /PRNewswire/ --\n\n- Barely Any Change From January - 2008 Leap-Year Effect Skews Figures\n\n- Group Airports Make Positive Contribution\n\n Frankfurt Airport's (FRA) traffic figures for February 2009 were level\nwith the preceding month of January - which was already affected by the\nimpact of the global economic crisis. Despite a larger minus in absolute\nfigures, the traffic decline did not accelerate. The higher percent values in\nthe monthly statistics can be explained by the 2008 leap-year effect, which\nfeatured the extra February 29 calendar day. A statistical adjustment of\napproximately 3.5 percent results when excluding this leap day in the year\non-year comparisons.\n\n\n\n About 3.3 million passengers used FRA in February 2009, a\ndecline of 13.3 percent year-on-year - or only about 9.8 percent when\nadjusting for the leap-year. Cargo throughput shrank by 25.4 percent\n(adjusted figure about 22.9 percent) to 129,962 metric tons of airfreight and\nairmail. Aircraft movements dropped by 9.5 percent (adjusted figure 6.1\npercent) to 34,393 takeoffs and landings. However, reduced traffic volume had\na positive effect on flight punctuality, with FRA recording a new peak figure\nof 83.2 percent for flights departing and arriving on time.\n\n\n\n Fraport's majority-owned airports positively boosted the\nGroup's passenger results in the reporting month. In particular, Antalya\nAirport on the Turkish Riviera (AYT) and Lima Airport (LIM) in Peru again\nregistered stable year-on-year passenger growth of 4.7 percent and 4.3\npercent, respectively. On the Black Sea coast, Varna Airport (VAR) achieved a\n16 percent jump in passengers while Burgas Airport's (BOJ) traffic more than\ntripled - but from a low statistical winter flight basis. Overall, Group\nfigures resulted in passenger traffic (including FRA) declining by 9.6\npercent.\n\n\n\n Print-quality photos of Frankfurt Airport and Fraport AG are\navailable free for downloading via the Internet at http://www.fraport.com\n(Menu: select Press Center > then Photo Service). For TV news and information\nbroadcasting purposes only, we also offer free footage material for\ndownloading via http://fraport.cms-gomex.com.\n\n\n\n \n Frankfurt Airport's Traffic Figures - February 2009\n\n February Change(2) Change(2)\n 2009 Feb. 09/ Jan. - Feb. Jan. - Fe...