Facts & Figures
| 1924: | Founding of the company "Südwestdeutschen Luftverkehrs AG" |
| 1936: | The "Rhine-Main Airfield" begins operating. |
| 1949: | System of parallel takeoff and landing runways completed |
| 1954: | The company is renamed "Flughafen Frankfurt/Main AG" (FAG). |
| 1972: | Terminal 1 and the subterranean train station open. |
| 1984: | Takeoff runway 18 west begins operating. |
| 1994: | Terminal 2 and the SkyLine overhead railway open. |
| 1997: | - The cargo handling facilities of FAG begin operating in CargoCity South. |
| - Pier D starts operating. | |
| - The SkyLine is extended westward. | |
| 1999: | The ICE train station opens. |
| 2001: | The company renames itself Fraport AG and takes its stock public. |
| 2002: | Connection to the new ICE route to Cologne. |
| 2004: | Permission to build an A380 maintenance base in the south of the airport. |
| 2005: | - First A380 handling tests. |
| - The U.S. Air Force completely vacates its air base on the premises. | |
| 2006: | For the first time, over 2 million metric tons of cargo are handled within a calendar year. |
| 2007: | - Construction of the AIRail Center (now named "THE SQUAIRE") begins (above the ICE train station) |
| - Permission granted to proceed with the airport expansion projects for a northwest landing runway and Terminal 3 |
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| 2008: | Completion of the first section of the A380 maintenance base. |
| 2009: | - Construction of the new Runway Northwest begins as part of the expansion program. |
| - Construction of the new pier A-Plus begins, offering a capacity for up to 6 million passengers. |
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| 2011: | - Inauguration of the new Runway Northwest at the start of the winter timetable 2011/12. - Completion of The Squaire |
Pictures illustrating this chronology - it's worth a click.
Frankfurt Airport in Figures
Traffic Volumes 2011
Frankfurt in an International Comparison
2011/12 Winter Flight Schedule
Train Connections
Total Area and Breakdown
Largest Operations
Facts & Figures 2011
Traffic Volumes 2011
| Passengers | Flight Movements | Airmail | Cargo |
| 56.44 million | 487,162 per year |
82,314 metric tons |
2.16 million metric tons |
| 154,000 per day |
124.4 passengers per movement |
5,900 metric tons per day | |
| Seat load factor of 74.4 % | 240 cargo flights per week |
Overview of current traffic figures.
Frankfurt in an International Comparison
| Passengers | Cargo (incl. airmail) | |
| 1. | Atlanta | Hong Kong |
| 2. | Peking |
Memphis |
| 3. | Chicago O'Hare |
Shanghai-Pudong |
| 4. | London Heathrow |
Seoul-Incheon |
| 5. | Tokio-Haneda |
Anchorage |
| 6. | Los Angeles |
Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| 7. | Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
Frankfurt |
| 8. | Dallas/Fort Worth | Dubai |
| 9. | Frankfurt | Tokio-Haneda |
| 10. | Denver | Louisville |
(2010 December figures, source: ACI)
Winter Flight Schedule 2011/12
Scheduled Passenger Flights |
Scheduled Cargo Flights |
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| Flights per week | 4.535 | Flights per week | 240 |
| Airlines | 107 | Airlines | 30 |
| Destinations | 275 | Destinations | 84 |
| Countries served | 111 | Countries served | 45 |
Train Connections
| Long-distance Trains | approx. 170 per day |
| Regional Trains | approx. 220 per day |
Total Area and Breakdown
Cargo Space and Special Real Estate |
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| Total area of CargoCity | 149 ha |
| CargoCity South | 98 ha (70.3 ha, not incl. roads) |
| CargoCity North | 51 ha |
| Perishable Center | 9,000 sq.m of Warehouses, 2,000 sq.m of Offices |
Shops, Restaurants and Bars |
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| Terminal 1 & 2 (Shopping, Food & Beverages): | 31.000 sq.m |
| Shopping | 20.000 sq.m |
| Food & Beverages | 11.000 sq.m |
| No. of Outlets (incl. Services) | 250 Shops, Bars & Restaurants |
| Thereof | 24 Duty Free & Travel Value Shops 130 Shops 65 Bars & Restaurants 31 Service Outlets 100 Operators |
Parking |
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Over 13,500 Public Spaces |
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Runways |
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| Northern Takeoff and Landing Runway | 4,000 meters long, 60 meters wide |
| Southern Takeoff and Landing Runway: | 4,000 meters long, 45 meters wide plus two 7.5-meter-wide shoulders, distance between centers of the northern and southern runways: 518 meters |
| Western Takeoff Runway | 4,000 meters long, 45 meters wide plus two 7.5-meter-wide shoulders |
| Runway Northwest | 2,800 meters long |
Largest Operations (at FRA)
1) Deutsche Lufthansa AG
2) Fraport AG
3) LSG Sky Chefs
4) Federal Police Office at Frankfurt Airport
5) International Postal Center
In all there are over 500 different operations, businesses and places of work at the airport.
Expansion of Frankfurt Airport
The new Runway Northwest was inaugurated and began operating on October 21, 2011. Measuring 2.8 kilometers in length, the new runway enables parallel flight movements, as a result of which the airport will now be able to gradually increase the number of hourly takeoffs and landings from 83 at present to 126. This boost in capacity will let Frankfurt Airport serve the burgeoning passenger volumes and meet airlines’ increasing demand. According to forecasts, close to 90 million passengers a year will ultimately arrive, depart, or change planes in Frankfurt.
Looking ahead, this growth will also necessitate additional passenger and luggage handling systems as well as new aircraft maintenance facilities. There are therefore plans to build a new passenger terminal in the south of the airport, which will add capacity for another roughly 25 million passengers to the current figure of 56 million a year.
These expansion activities are being supplemented by Lufthansa’s new A380 hangar, the first section of which has already been completed. Parallel to this, 27 hectares are being developed in the airport’s CargoCity to accommodate new cargo handling facilities.
This expansion will allow Frankfurt Airport to continue offering first-class services and cargo handling infrastructure. Among other things, the hourly availability of slots will be increased from just over 80 now to 126, in other words by more than 50 percent.
- Fraport AG
- Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide60547Frankfurt am Main
- info@fraport.de
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