GERMANY. Frankfurt International Airport achieved +11.8% year-on-year growth in April, almost reaching the passenger traffic record of April 2001, the airports group Fraport said today.
Frankfurt served more than 4.1 million passengers in the month. It registered double-digit growth rates on intercontinental routes to North America and Asia – in particular China and Hong Kong – as well as to holiday destinations in Cyprus, Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey.
In the long-haul travel market, the Caribbean and Sri Lanka experienced extraordinarily high growth rates. Inexpensive travel destinations in Eastern Europe also enjoyed growing popularity, especially destinations in Romania and Bulgaria. In addition, the number of airlines flying to and from Frankfurt increased by 4 to 112 and the number of destination countries increased by 3 to 109.
The other airports of the Fraport Group also reported growth in traffic for April 2004. Combined, the six
airports in the Group served about six million passengers – +18.2% more than in April 2003.
With 234,569 passengers, Frankfurt Hahn Airport registered a +20.2% increase in passenger traffic. With 699,588 passengers, Antalya Airport recorded +113.8% growth compared to the same period last year. Lima Airport also recorded a noticeable jump in traffic, growing +19.4% to 400,438 passengers.
However, Hanover Airport saw traffic drop by -0.9% to 408,809 passengers; Saarbrücken also saw figures decline by -4.6% to 31,964 passengers. The Fraport Group’s airports had a total of 60,495 takeoffs and landings, +7.3% more than the same month last year.
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