Fraport Traffic Figures 2019: More Than 70.5 Million Passengers

Frankfurt Airport (FRA) served more than 70.5 million passengers in 2019 – achieving a new all-time record by exceeding the 70-million mark for the first time in a calendar year. Compared to the previous

year, this represents a passenger increase of 1.5 percent. Following a positive trend in the first half of 2019 (up 3.0 percent), passenger volumes largely stagnated in the second half of the year (up 0.2 percent). In the months of November and December 2019, passenger numbers declined for the first time since November 2016.

The relatively weaker growth in full-year passenger numbers can be mainly attributed to domestic traffic (down 3.4 percent) and European traffic (up 1.2 percent). In contrast, intercontinental traffic to and from FRA increased by 3.4 percent in 2019.

Fraport AG’s executive board chairman, Dr. Stefan Schulte, commented:”The reduction of airline flight services for the current winter schedule had a noticeable impact on passenger volumes at Frankfurt.

After a long and extraordinarily strong growth phase – during which we gained almost 10 million passengers in the last three years – we can now see that the aviation industry is entering a consolidation

phase. Broader economic and geopolitical uncertainties have worsened, while unilateral national measures – such as raising the local air traffic tax – are placing an additional burden on the German aviation industry in 2020.”

The number of aircraft movements at FRA rose by 0.4 percent to 513,912 takeoffs and landings in 2019. Accumulated maximum takeoff weights (MTOWs) were up 0.8 percent to about 31.9 million metric tons. Cargo throughput (airfreight + airmail) contracted by 3.9 percent to 2.1 million metric tons, reflecting the ongoing slowdown of the global economy.

In December 2019, FRA’s passenger traffic declined by 1.2 percent year-on-year to 4.9 million passengers. With 36,635 takeoffs and landings, aircraft movements shrank by 4.4 percent. MTOWs slipped by 2.9 percent to just under 2.4 million metric tons. Cargo volumes decreased by 7.2 percent to 170,384 metric tons.

The airports in Fraport AG’s international portfolio continued to show largely positive performance during 2019. Affected by the bankruptcy of home-carrier Adria Airways and other factors, Ljubljana Airport (LJU) in Slovenia recorded a 5.0 percent traffic decline in the reporting year (December 2019: down 21.6 percent). In contrast, Fraport’s two Brazilian airports of Fortaleza (FOR) and Porto Alegre (POA) posted combined traffic growth of 3.9 percent to 15.5 million passengers (December 2019: up 0.3 percent). Peru’s Lima Airport (LIM) continued the strong performance of previous years, with traffic rising by 6.6 percent (December 2019: up 5.4 percent).

Traffic at the 14 Greek regional airports expanded slightly by 0.9 percent to nearly 30.2 million passengers in 2019 (December 2019: down 2.2 percent). Following years of dynamic growth, traffic at Varna (VAR) and Burgas (BOJ) airports in Bulgaria declined by 10.7 percent, due to airlines consolidating their flight offerings (December 2019: up 23.3 percent).

In 2019, traffic at Turkey’s Antalya Airport (AYT) once again advanced rapidly by 10.0 percent to almost 35.5 million passengers (December 2019: up 2.8 percent). Pulkovo Airport (LED) in St. Petersburg, Russia, saw traffic climb by 8.1 percent to some 19.6 million passengers (December 2019: up 5.7 percent). At Xi’an Airport (XIY) in China, traffic jumped by 5.7 percent to more than 47.2 million passengers (December 2019: up 4.7 percent).

Fraport Traffic Figures

December 2019

Fr8aport Group Airports¹				December 2019						Year to Date (YTD) 2019
			Fraport	Passengers		Cargo*		Movements		Passengers		Cargo		Movements
Fully-consolidated airports			share (%)	Month	Δ %	Month	Δ %	Month	Δ %	YTD	Δ %	YTD	Δ %	YTD	Δ %
FRA	Frankfurt	Germany	100.00	4,868,298	-1.2	167,692	-7.4	36,635	-4.4	70,556,072	1.5	2,091,174	-3.9	513,912	0.4
LJU	Ljubljana	Slovenia	100.00	85,513	-21.6	1,030	-2.5	1,776	-27.1	1,721,355	-5.0	11,365	-8.2	31,489	-11.3
Fraport Brasil			100.00	1,454,258	0.3	8,157	11.4	12,887	3.7	15,516,902	3.9	85,586	-0.5	137,403	-1.3
FOR	Fortaleza	Brazil	100.00	692,101	-1.3	5,166	23.9	5,608	-2.4	7,218,697	8.9	48,355	5.1	59,694	2.4
POA	Porto Alegre	Brazil	100.00	762,157	1.8	2,991	-5.1	7,279	8.9	8,298,205	-0.1	37,231	-6.8	77,709	-4.0
LIM	Lima	Peru	80.01	1,961,228	5.4	25,721	-4.3	16,995	6.2	23,578,600	6.6	271,326	-5.0	197,857	2.7
Fraport Regional Airports of Greece A+B			73.40	697,028	-2.2	670	-1.6	6,930	-5.3	30,152,728	0.9	7,599	-7.0	245,569	0.6
Fraport Regional Airports of Greece A			73.40	540,501	-0.8	554	1.8	4,659	-6.1	16,690,193	0.4	5,809	-6.1	131,160	0.1
CFU	Kerkyra (Corfu)	Greece	73.40	22,521	-4.5	9	-44.7	317	-19.1	3,275,897	-2.6	180	-1.9	25,312	-3.8
CHQ	Chania (Crete)	Greece	73.40	55,796	-3.3	17	-48.9	502	-9.4	2,983,542	-0.8	381	-16.1	20,502	4.6
EFL	Kefalonia	Greece	73.40	3,538	4.2	0	n.a.	110	-6.8	774,170	1.6	0	-38.0	7,355	2.6
KVA	Kavala	Greece	73.40	5,392	-22.9	10	3.3	118	3.5	323,310	-20.6	99	3.9	3,465	-16.5
PVK	Aktion/Preveza	Greece	73.40	367	19.2	0	n.a.	56	0.0	625,790	7.2	0	n.a.	5,592	3.7
SKG	Thessaloniki	Greece	73.40	449,698	-0.2	519	7.0	3,456	-4.7	6,897,057	3.1	5,145	-5.5	55,738	0.9
ZTH	Zakynthos	Greece	73.40	3,189	21.6	0	-100.0	100	-2.9	1,810,427	0.5	4	-48.5	13,196	0.3
Fraport Regional Airports of Greece B			73.40	156,527	-6.7	116	-15.5	2,271	-3.5	13,462,535	1.5	1,790	-10.0	114,409	1.1
JMK	Mykonos	Greece	73.40	7,224	-4.0	3	23.5	141	-5.4	1,520,145	8.9	89	-4.5	18,801	8.8
JSI	Skiathos	Greece	73.40	1,088	0.5	0	n.a.	44	-20.0	446,219	1.9	0	n.a.	4,179	0.5
JTR	Santorini (Thira)	Greece	73.40	31,750	-22.3	7	-39.9	444	13.0	2,300,408	2.0	170	-5.0	21,319	4.7
KGS	Kos	Greece	73.40	18,962	-3.8	24	25.6	344	-13.4	2,676,644	0.4	325	11.4	19,797	-2.6
MJT	Mytilene (Lesvos)	Greece	73.40	28,212	0.3	25	-17.3	458	-11.1	496,577	4.1	349	-9.2	6,571	6.7
RHO	Rhodes	Greece	73.40	56,711	-1.6	39	-29.7	542	2.5	5,542,567	-0.5	626	-19.1	37,468	-3.1
SMI	Samos	Greece	73.40	12,580	-2.2	19	-2.7	298	-5.7	479,975	3.7	232	-13.6	6,274	1.1
Fraport Twin Star			60.00	92,334	23.3	281	-70.1	832	-2.1	4,970,095	-10.7	4,871	-43.1	35,422	-13.7
BOJ	Burgas	Bulgaria	60.00	12,325	-5.2	275	-70.4	155	-30.5	2,885,776	-12.0	4,747	-43.7	19,954	-14.3
VAR	Varna	Bulgaria	60.00	80,009	29.3	6	-39.6	677	8.0	2,084,319	-8.7	123	-9.3	15,468	-13.0

At equity consolidated airports
AYT	Antalya	Turkey	51.00	871,457	2.8	n.a.	n.a.	6,382	-3.3	35,483,190	10.0	n.a.	n.a.	206,599	9.6
LED	St. Petersburg	Russia	25.00	1,345,769	5.7	n.a.	n.a.	12,662	-0.5	19,581,262	8.1	n.a.	n.a.	168,572	1.9
XIY	Xi’an	China	24.50	3,769,520	4.7	42,387	30.4	28,612	3.4	47,220,745	5.7	381,869	22.2	345,106	4.6

Frankfurt Airport²

December 2019	Month	Δ %	YTD 2019	Δ %
Passengers	4,868,689	-1.2	70,560,987	1.5
Cargo (freight & mail)	170,384	-7.2	2,128,476	-3.9
Aircraft movements	36,635	-4.4	513,912	0.4
MTOW (in metric tons)³	2,370,398	-2.9	31,872,251	0.8
PAX/PAX-flight⁴	142.4	3.5	146.8	1.2
Seat load factor (%)	76.2		79.6
Punctuality rate (%)	75.0		72.6

Frankfurt Airport	PAX share	Δ %⁵	PAX share	Δ %⁵
Regional Split	Month		YTD
Continental	58.8	-4.3	63.7	0.4
Germany	11.0	-3.0	10.5	-3.4
Europe (excl. GER)	47.9	-4.5	53.2	1.2
Western Europe	39.1	-5.2	44.0	0.9
Eastern Europe	8.7	-1.4	9.2	2.8
Intercontinental	41.2	3.7	36.3	3.4
Africa	5.3	1.6	4.7	8.8
Middle East	6.1	1.5	5.2	2.0
North America	14.0	10.9	12.8	3.9
Central & South Amer.	4.8	2.4	3.4	3.7
Far East	11.1	-1.8	10.1	1.2
Australia	0.0	n.a.	0.0	n.a.