Frankfurt Airport witnesses busiest May month in history

Frankfurt Airport (FRA) witnessed its busiest May month in history with 5.6 million passengers passing through its facilities – a significant 5.4 per cent increase year-on-year.

Furthermore, the 200,000 passengers-per-day figure was exceeded for the first time in a May month, specifically on May 17 (about 202,000 passengers) and again on May 22 (about 208,700 passengers), due to the occurrence of various holidays.

In contrast, the additional holidays in May dampened FRA's cargo throughput in the reporting month, with tonnage (airfreight and airmail) slipping by 3.1 per cent to 179,831 metric tons.

Aircraft movements increased slightly by 0.7 per cent to 42,656 take-offs and landings. Maximum take-off weights (MTOWs) jumped by 3.2 per cent to about 2.7 million metric tons - also reaching a new May record.

Fraport AG's Group airports around the world registered positive development overall in May. With 128,411 passengers, Slovenia's capital city airport in Ljubljana (LJU) posted a traffic surge of 19.6 per cent year-on-year. Lima Airport (LIM) in Peru also reported satisfying traffic performance. With more than 1.4 million passengers in May, LIM's traffic clearly advanced by 9.2 per cent.

Bulgaria's Twinstar airports of Burgas (BOJ) and Varna (VAR), however, experienced a combined 7.4 per cent drop in traffic to 167,984 passengers. Turkey's Antalya Airport (AYT) saw traffic decline by 6.6 per cent to about 3 million passengers. And at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport, the number of passengers fell by 4.2 per cent to about 1.2 million passengers.

In northern Germany, Hanover Airport (HAJ) received 512,048 passengers, representing a dynamic growth of 7.6 per cent year-on-year and Xi'an Airport in central China once again reported strong double-digit growth of 12.8 per cent, having served about 2.8 million passengers in May. – TradeArabia News Service