GERMANY. Frankfurt Airport handled 4.8 million passengers in April, a rise of +2.8% on a year earlier, parent group Fraport has reported. This was a new record for the month, surpassing last year’s previous high by 130,000 passengers.
From January to April 2012 almost 17 million travellers used the German hub. This represents a +3% jump compared to the same four-month period last year.
Fraport’s five majority-owned airports around the world served a total of 7.3 million passengers in the month – growing by +1.7% year-on-year. At Peru’s Lima Airport, traffic surged by +13.5% to some one million passengers year-on-year. Lima recently won its fifth SkyTrax Award – for the fourth consecutive year – as Best Airport in South America.
Antalya Airport handled 1.5 million passengers in April 2012 – a -7.8% decline compared to the same month last year. Fraport said: “This drop can be primarily attributed to a stabilization of the political and social environment in North Africa, which had resulted in many international passengers shifting their travel plans to Fraport’s Turkish airport in the spring of 2011.”
On the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, Burgas Airport registered a +1.7% gain in traffic to almost 20,000 passengers. Meanwhile, Varna Airport welcomed 26,182 passengers in April 2012, following the reopening of the airport after several months of reconstruction from mid-October 2011 to the end of February 2012.
