Fraport Traffic Figures - August 2017

Strong Growth Continues at Frankfurt Airport and Fraport's Group Airports

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Passenger traffic at FRA rises for the tenth consecutive month

In August 2017, passenger numbers at Frankfurt Airport (FRA) rose
by 5.0 percent to nearly 6.3 million passengers. During the
eight-month period from January to August 2017, FRA posted
accumulated passenger growth of 4.5 percent.

Cargo throughput (airfreight + airmail) also continued to increase
by 5.4 percent year-on-year to 181,102 metric tons in the reporting
month. FRA's accumulated maximum takeoff weights (MTOWs) surpassed
the previous August record achieved in 2015 by about 1,000 metric
tons to some 2.7 million metric tons (up 1.8 percent year-on-year).
The number of aircraft movements grew by 2.7 percent to 42,934
takeoffs and landings.

Group airports in Fraport AG's international portfolio also
continued to deliver strong performance. Slovenia's capital city
airport Ljubljana (LJU) welcomed 196,416 passengers, a significant
gain of 18.9 percent. Lima Airport (LIM) in Peru posted a 10.5
percent traffic increase to over 1.9 million passengers in the
reporting month. The Fraport Twin Star airports of Varna (VAR) and
Burgas (BOJ) located on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast registered a
combined increase of 4.4 percent to 1.3 million passengers.

The 14 Greek airports achieved combined traffic growth of 8.3
percent to some 5.1 million passengers in August 2017. The busiest of
the Greek airports included Rhodes Airport (RHO) with around 1.0
million passengers (up 2.4 percent), Thessaloniki Airport (SKG) with
781,617 passengers (up 14.6 percent) and Kerkyra Airport (CFU) on the
island of Corfu with 628,681 passengers (up 2.7 percent).

On the Turkish Riviera, Antalya Airport (AYT) served some 4.3
million passengers in August, jumping by 56.0 percent. In northern
Germany, traffic at Hanover Airport (HAJ) climbed by 12.4 percent to
617,320 passengers. Welcoming approximately 1.9 million passengers,
Pulkovo Airport (LED) in St. Petersburg, Russia, also recorded strong
traffic growth of 21.2 percent. At China's Xi'an Airport (XIY),
traffic advanced by 10.1 percent to some 3.8 million passengers.

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