Frankfurt Airport's Traffic Figures for August 2001

Frankfurt/Main (PROTEXT/ots) -

August

July

August

Change (2)

2001

2001

2000

Aug.'01/

Aug.'00 Passengers

4.8

4.9

4.7

2.4 % in millions Airfreight

116.9

121.9

132.3

-11.6 % in thousands of metric tons Airmail

11.5

11.2

11.4

1.0 % in thousands of metric tons Aircraft Movements (1) 40.5

41.1

40.6

-0.2 % in thousands MTOWs

2,293.4 2,319.8 2,277.8

0.7 % in thousands of metric tons Punctuality

81.8

78.7

80.2 share of puctual arrivals and departures in percent Passenger traffic at Frankfurt Airport (FRA) increased by 2.4percent in August 2001, versus the corresponding month last year.While there was clearly more European passenger traffic,intercontinental traffic - especially to and from North America -registered a slight decline.

In the airfreight sector, August also experienced a strong declineover the previous year. Particularly because of noticeabledevelopments resulting from the global impact of the weak U.S.economy, there was meanwhile a clear decline in airfreight activity.Airfreight tonnage developed postively on South American andAustralian routes. The weak demand in airfreight traffic was the main reason for aslight drop in the number of takeoffs and landings (-0.2 percent) atFRA. The share of delayed flights at FRA, in comparison to the samemonth last year, declined from 19.8 to 18.2 percent. The latestpunctuality statistics from the Association of European Airlines (AEA)rank Frankfurt ahead of Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, Rome, Zürich, aswell as Munich, which all registered greater delay rates. (1) Excluding military flghts (2) Rate of change based on unrounded numbers

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