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Fraport Traffic Figures - March 2009
Fraport Traffic Figures - March 2009.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n\n\n\nFRANKFURT, Germany, April 15 /PRNewswire/ --\n\n- Aircraft Movements Improve Slightly\n\n- FRA's Flight Punctuality Hits Record 86.8 Percent\n\n The global economic crisis continues to have a firm grip on\ninternational air transportation. However, Frankfurt Airport's (FRA)\npercentage change in passenger figures in March compared to February 2009 did\nnot worsen. In February 2009 FRA experienced a 9.8 percent year-on year drop\nin passenger traffic, taking into account the leap-year effect; in March 2009\nFRA served 9.2 percent fewer passengers. A total of 4.03 million passengers\nused FRA in the reporting month. Aircraft movements slipped by 3.2 percent to\n38,913 takeoffs and landings. In February 2009 movements dropped by 6.1\npercent, even after adjusting for the leap-year effect. With 152,784 metric\ntons of airfreight and airmail in March 2009, FRA experienced a 21.2 percent\nyear-on-year decline in cargo. In February 2009 FRA registered a 25.4 percent\nfall in cargo traffic.\n\n\n\n Cumulative figures for the first quarter of 2009 show that FRA\nwelcomed 10.9 million passengers, a decline of 10.9 percent compared to the\nsame period last year. Aircraft movements were down by 6.5 percent during the\nsame period to 108,754 takeoffs and landings. Cargo volume sank by 23.3\npercent to 406,954 metric tons.\n\n\n\n Fraport's majority-owned airports continued to report positive\nresults in March 2009. Antalya Airport on the Turkish Riviera (AYT) saw\npassenger traffic rise by 11 percent and Lima Airport (LIM) in Peru by 1.8\npercent. On the Black Sea coast, traffic at Varna Airport (VAR) increased by\n163 percent and at Burgas Airport (BOJ) by 1.7 percent, due to lower\npassenger volumes in the winter season. Thus, these foreign operations\nenabled the Fraport Group's airports - including FRA - to register a\ncorrespondingly moderate 6.3 percent dip in passenger traffic. The cumulative\nfirst quarter 2009 figures also reflect the positive influence of Fraport's\nforeign airports: AYT reported a passenger surge of 12.8 percent and Lima of\n5.4 percent. Passenger traffic at BOJ jumped by 30.5 percent and at VAR by\n14.2 percent during the January-to-March 2009 period.\n\n\n\n Flight punctuality a FRA (the share of punctual arrivals and\ndepartures) developed positively again in March 2009. Improving by more than\n15 pe...