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Fewer flights and the impact of severe weather hit passenger traffic in January |
GERMANY. Sharply reduced airline schedules for the Winter season hit passenger traffic growth at Frankfurt Airport in January. Volumes were down by -4.9% year-on-year to around 3.9 million.
Parent company Fraport Group said: “This decline was due primarily to the reduction in flight offers implemented by many airlines for the Winter 2012/13 timetable. Furthermore, weather-related flight cancellations – above all, freezing rain and sleet in mid-January – affected the passenger volume. Excluding this weather effect, the monthly result would have been at least two percentage points better.”
Aircraft movements at Frankfurt dropped by -6.8% to nearly 35,100 takeoffs and landings in January.
Fraport’s majority-owned airports – Frankfurt Airport, Antalya, Burgas, Varna and Lima – together handled about 5.7 million passengers in January 2013, down -1.5% year-on-year. Lima continued to record dynamic growth, with almost 1.2 million passengers in the month (+13.1%). Over half a million passengers used Antalya on the Turkish Riviera (down -4.9%), while the Bulgarian airports of Burgas and Varna on the Black Sea coast together served about 28,500 passengers.
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