Fraport Traffic Figures - March and First Quarter 2017

FRANKFURT, Germany, April 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

Frankfurt Airport achieves positive performance in first quarter 2017 despite special effects - Fraport's Group airports report largely postive traffic figures - Strong increase also recorded in March 

FRA/gk - During the first quarter of 2017, Frankfurt Airport (FRA) has continued its growth path: for the first time in the airport's history, more than 13 million passengers passed through Germany's largest aviation hub in the January-to-March period. This corresponds to a 1.5 percent increase year-on-year. Without the leap-year effect, a number of strikes and the late timing of the Easter holidays in 2017, the growth rate would have reached 3.1 percent. Cargo throughput (airfreight + airmail) also posted positive growth in the first three months of 2017, rising by 5.8 percent to 535,764 metric tons. Aircraft movements decreased by 1.2 percent to a total of 104,530 takeoffs and landings, while accumulated maximum takeoff weights (MTOWs) were down 2.6 percent to about 6.7 million metric tons. Adjusted for the special effects, aircraft movements would have increased by 0.3 percent.

In March 2017, Frankfurt Airport served some 4.9 million passengers, up 1.8 percent year-on-year. Thus, the previous March record achieved in 2016 was exceeded by around 85,000 passengers. Without a number of flight cancellations, mainly due to strikes at airports in Berlin, passenger traffic would have increased by 2.3 percent. Cargo volumes soared by 9.8 percent to 205,443 metric tons - the highest monthly growth rate recorded over the previous six years. This was helped by a more favorable timing of weekdays compared to the previous year and the fact that Easter falls in April this year. The number of aircraft movements rose by 1.1 percent to 37,924 takeoffs and landings in March 2017. With approximately 2.4 million metric tons, maximum takeoff weights shrank by 1.0 percent compared to the same month of the previous year.

Across the Group, airports in Fraport's international portfolio showed largely positive performance in the first quarter of 2017. Ljubljana Airport (LJU) in the capital of Slovenia welcomed 288,355 passengers in the first three months of the year, an increase of 17.5 percent. Lima Airport (LIM) in Peru recorded a 7.4 percent increase to about 4.8 million passengers. The two Twin Star airports of Varna (VAR) and Burgas (BOJ) on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, combined, served 126,033 passengers, thus posting growth of 7.6 percent. By contrast, the airports of Antalya (AYT) in Turkey and Hanover (HAJ) in northern Germany registered declines of 10.1 percent to some 2.1 million passengers and 2.8 percent to 979,658 passengers, respectively. Pulkovo Airport (LED) in St. Petersburg, Russia, saw traffic improve by 25.3 percent to almost 2.9 million passengers in the first quarter of 2017, while Xi'an Airport (XIY) in China welcomed more than 9.8 million passengers, an increase of 14.4 percent.

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Fraport Traffic Figures 

March 2017 

   
    Fraport Group Airports[1]                             March 2017
                                       Fraport       Passengers           Cargo*          Movements
    Fully-consolidated airports        share (%)    Month    DELTA %   Month   DELTA %  Month  DELTA %
    FRA     Frankfurt       Germany    100,00   4,872,599     1.8   202,562    10.5  37,924     1.1
    LJU     Ljubljana       Slovenia   100,00     108,964    16.0     1,026    16.1   2,840    13.6
    LIM     Lima            Peru[2]     70,01   1,580,929     5.5    18,466    -0.9  15,550     6.9
    Fraport Twin Star                   60,00      49,093    19.6       900     0.7     646     3.4
    BOJ     Burgas          Bulgaria    60,00      13,573    15.3       887     0.0     224     0.4
    VAR     Varna           Bulgaria    60,00      35,520    21.3        13    83.2     422     5.0

    At equity consolidated airports[2]
    AYT     Antalya         Turkey      51,00     838,145   -16.1      n.a.    n.a.   6,075   -13.3
    HAJ     Hanover         Germany     30,00     393,030    -3.2     1,822    23.9   6,197     2.2
    LED     St. Petersburg  Russia      25,00   1,018,974    23.1      n.a.    n.a.  10,887    21.3
    XIY     Xi'an           China       24,50   3,315,898    13.9    20,654     4.3  25,639    10.9

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                                               Year to Date (YTD) 2017
                                      Passengers            Cargo           Movements
    Fully-consolidated airports            YTD     DELTA %    YTD    DELTA %    YTD    DELTA %
    FRA     Frankfurt       Germany   13,124,451     1.5   527,951     6.3   104,530    -1.2
    LJU     Ljubljana       Slovenia     288,355    17.5     2,723    12.7     7,199    12.0
    LIM     Lima            Peru[2]    4,809,175     7.4    60,845    -0.5    44,367     4.3
    Fraport Twin Star                    126,033     7.6     3,503    11.2     1,800    -0.8
    BOJ     Burgas          Bulgaria      32,421    -6.1     3,386     8.2       597   -15.4
    VAR     Varna           Bulgaria      93,612    13.4       117 > 100.0     1,203     8.6

    At equity consolidated airports[2]
    AYT     Antalya         Turkey     2,115,338   -10.1      n.a.    n.a.    15,759    -6.2
    HAJ     Hanover         Germany      979,658    -2.8     5,322    13.5    15,644    -2.0
    LED     St. Petersburg  Russia     2,899,040    25.3      n.a.    n.a.    30,861    18.0
    XIY     Xi'an           China      9,835,898    14.4    57,598     5.2    75,500     9.6

   
    Frankfurt Airport[3]

    March 2017                      Month   DELTA %   YTD 2017    DELTA %
    Passengers                  4,872,894     1.8    13,125,242       1.5
    Cargo (freight & mail)        205,443     9.8       535,764       5.8
    Aircraft movements             37,924     1.1       104,530      -1.2
    MTOW (in metric tons)[4]    2,422,884    -1.0     6,685,272      -2.6
    PAX/PAX-flight[5]               138.9     1.0         135.4       3.1
    Seat load factor (%)             76.8                  74.9
    Punctuality rate (%)             84.4                  80.5

   
    Frankfurt Airport       PAX share DELTA %[6] PAX share     DELTA %[6]
    Regional Split            Month                Month
    Continental                  60.8        2.4      59.9           2.0
    Germany                      12.4        7.8      12.0           3.4
    Europe (excl. Germany)       48.4        1.0      47.9           1.7
    Western Europe               40.6        0.5      40.0           1.7
    Eastern Europe                7.8        3.9       7.8           2.0
    Intercontinental             39.2        0.9      40.1           0.8
    Africa                        4.4        0.4       4.6           4.3
    Middle East                   6.5        0.7       6.6           3.5
    North America                12.1       -1.1      11.8          -2.0
    Central & South America       4.4        1.4       4.8           1.2
    Far East                     11.9        3.2      12.3           0.7
    Australia                     0.0       n.a.       0.0          n.a.

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