GERMANY. Passenger traffic at Frankfurt Airport was up +7.5% year-on-year in July, to 6.9 million. In the first half of 2018 the increase was +8.8%, with European traffic remaining the main growth driver.
The German hub airport recorded a new daily record on 29 July, with 237,966 passengers handled, operator Fraport said.
Fraport said all airports in its international portfolio showed positive development in July. Slovenia’s Ljubljana Airport saw marginal +0.4% growth during the month, to 198,911. Combined traffic at the company’s two Brazilian airports in Fortaleza and Porto Alegre rose +6.8%, to 1.4 million.
Fraport’s 14 Greek regional airports recorded a +7.2% increase in combined traffic, to 5.4 million. The three busiest were Rhodes (+4% to 1.1 million), Thessaloniki (+7.2% to 812,540) and Corfu (+10.9% to 686,894).
Peru’s Lima Airport saw +5.9% growth, to 2 million passengers, while Fraport’s ‘Twin Star’ airports of Varna and Burgas in Bulgaria served 1.4 million passengers combined, a +7.3% increase.
Turkey’s Antalya Airport recorded +15.6% growth, to 4.8 million, while traffic at Hanover Airport in northern Germany was up +9.9% to 725,392.
Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg, Russia, saw a +9.7% increase, to 2.1 million. Traffic at Xi’an Airport in China rose +9.1% to 4 million.
Fraport reported a -4% year-on-year drop in first half retail revenue last week, to €94.8 million. Net retail revenue per passenger fell by a sharp -12.3% to €3.06 in the period.
