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Fraport Traffic Figures - November 2008
Fraport Traffic Figures - November 2008.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n\n\n\nFRANKFURT/MAIN, Germany, December 11 /PRNewswire/ --\n\n - Weak Demand Continues - Group Traffic up for the January-to-November\nPeriod\n\n\n\n The current global economic slump is also affecting air\ntraffic worldwide. Frankfurt Airport (FRA) served 3.9 million passengers in\nNovember 2008, a drop of 7.0 percent year-on-year. Recording the smallest\ndecline, intercontinental passenger traffic slipped by 3.1 percent.\nAirfreight throughput fell by 8.2 percent to 176,230 metric tons. Aircraft\nmovements shrank by 3.4 percent to 38,733 takeoffs and landings. Only the\nnumber of intercontinental passenger flights increased by 0.5 percent.\n\n\n\n Total maximum takeoff weights (MTOWs) dropped by 1.1 percent\nin the reporting month, while the accumulated figure for the first eleven\nmonths of 2008 rose by 1.0 percent to 26.3 million metric tons. The number of\npassengers at Frankfurt Airport dipped by 1.0 percent to 49.7 million in the\nJanuary-to-November 2008 period. Within this decline, the attractive\nintercontinental passenger segment still achieved 1.2 percent growth.\nAirfreight tonnage slipped slightly by 0.3 percent to 1.9 million metric\ntons. With 449,528 takeoffs and landings, aircraft movements were 1.1 percent \nlower than in the first eleven months of 2007.\n\n\n\n Most of the Fraport Group's majority-owned airports recorded\npassenger growth in November 2008: Bulgaria's Varna (VAR) and Burgas (BOJ)\nairports on the Black Sea coast rose by 18.6 and 37.5 percent respectively,\nAntalya Airport (AYT) in Turkey by 3.9 percent and Lima Airport (LIM) in Peru\nby 3.3 percent. Only Frankfurt-Hahn Airport (HHN) ebbed by 1.2 percent.\n\n\n\n All of the Group's airports, including FRA, reported 1.1\npercent growth in the January-to-November 2008 period, raising the total\nnumber of passengers to 73.1 million. The cargo segment (airfreight plus\nairmail) advanced by 1.0 percent to 2.3 million metric tons and aircraft\nmovements climbed by 1.6 percent to 672,829 takeoffs and landings.\n\n\n\n____________________________________________________________________\n\n Print-quality photos of Frankfurt Airport and Fraport AG are available\nfree for downloading via the Internet at www.fraport.com (Menu: select Press\nCenter > then Photo Service). For TV news and information broadcasting\npurposes only, we also offer free foo...