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Fraport Traffic Figures - January 2009: Weather...
Fraport Traffic Figures - January 2009: Weather....
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n\n\n\nFRANKFURT, Germany, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --\n\n- Group's Airports Largely Stable\n\n A series of special effects negatively impacted the January\n2009 traffic figures at Frankfurt Airport (FRA) - in addition to the fall in\ndemand for cargo and passenger volumes caused by the weak economy. These\neffects included strikes by Deutsche Lufthansa cabin personnel and tough\nwinter weather conditions compared to the previous year and led to an over\nproportionate number of flight cancellations - also at other airports in\nEurope and North America. Furthermore, DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung (Germany's\nair traffic control company) suffered a breakdown in the transmission of\nweather data, which resulted in extensive flight cancellations.\n\n\n\n In total, hundreds of flights had to be cancelled at FRA\nduring January 2009. On top of this, extended factory holidays in the\nautomobile industry resulted in a decline in flight bookings and cargo\ntonnage. These events, along with economic developments, led to a further\ndecline in traffic figures. Recording some 3.5 million passengers, FRA\nexperienced a 10.4 percent traffic drop year-on-year. Cargo throughput shrank\nby 23.5 percent to 124,208 metric tons of airfreight and airmail. Aircraft\nmovements dropped by seven percent to 35,448 takeoffs and landings compared\nto January 2008, due partly to precautionary measures by certain airlines to\ntemporarily reduce their flight schedules. Accumulated maximum takeoff\nweights (MTOWs) slid by 6.1 percent in January 2009 to approximately 2.1 \nmillion metric tons.\n\n\n\n The majority-owned airports of the Fraport Group largely\nrecorded stable development in passenger traffic during January 2009. In\nparticular, the important foreign airports of Antalya (AYT) in Turkey and\nLima (LIM) in Peru registered continuing passenger growth of 8.3 percent and\n9.2 percent, respectively. Fraport's two airports on the Black Sea coast of\nBulgaria changed positions during the usually slow winter period, with Burgas\nsliding by 35.5 percent and Varna surging ahead by 31.1 percent in January\n2009.\n\n\n\n Nevertheless, overall figures for the Group dropped in January\n2009 because FRA accounts for a major portion of the Group's traffic.\nPassenger traffic fell by 6.5 percent, cargo tonnage sank by 22.7 percent and\naircraft movements declined by...