| Frankfurt Airport Flughafen Frankfurt am Main |
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| Frankfurt Airport from the air (2010) | |||
| IATA: FRA – ICAO: EDDF | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner/Operator | Fraport | ||
| Location | Frankfurt, Germany | ||
| Hub for | |||
| Elevation AMSL | 364 ft / 111 m | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 07R/25L | 4,000 | 13,123 | Asphalt |
| 07C/25C | 4,000 | 13,123 | Asphalt |
| 18A | 4,000 | 13,123 | Concrete |
| 07L/25RB | 2,800 | 9,240 | Concrete |
| Statistics (2010) | |||
| Passengers | 53,009,221 | ||
| Passenger change 09-10 | 4.1% | ||
| Aircraft Movements | 464,432 | ||
| Movements change 09-10 | 0.3% | ||
| Sources: Passenger Traffic, ADV[1] German AIP at EUROCONTROL[2] A:^ The opposite end of Runway 18, which if marked would be Runway 36, is unused.[3] Runway 18 is used for take-offs only. |
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Frankfurt am Main Airport (IATA: FRA, ICAO: EDDF), or simply Frankfurt Airport, known in German as Flughafen Frankfurt am Main or Rhein-Main-Flughafen, is a major international airport located in Frankfurt, Germany, 12 km (7.5 mi) southwest of the city centre.[2]
Run by transport company Fraport, Frankfurt Airport is by far the busiest airport by passenger traffic in Germany, the third busiest in Europe (after London Heathrow Airport and Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport) and the ninth busiest worldwide in 2010. Passenger traffic at Frankfurt Airport in 2010 was 53.0 million. As of summer 2011, Frankfurt Airport serves the most international destinations in the world, serving 298 destinations in 110 countries[3] and is the second busiest airport in Europe by cargo traffic. The southern side of the airport ground was home to the Rhein-Main Air Base, which was a major air base for the United States from 1947 until 2005, when the air base was closed and the property was acquired by Fraport.
The airport is centrally located in the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region, Germany's second-largest metropolitan region, which itself has a central location in the densely populated region of the west-central European megalopolis. Thereby, along with a strong rail and motorway connection, the airport serves as a major transportation hub to the greater region, less than two hours by ground to Cologne, the Ruhr Area, and Stuttgart.
Frankfurt Airport is the main hub of Lufthansa, Germany's flag carrier, and of Condor Flugdienst. Due to capacity constraints in Frankfurt, Lufthansa has established a secondary hub at Munich Airport, where many key medium and long-haul routes are available.
The airport is currently ranked as a four-star by Skytrax along with eight other airports around the world.[4]
The airport has been expanded several times since its opening in 1936 and now has two large terminals (Terminal 1 and Terminal 2), with a capacity of approximately 58 million passengers yearly, and four runways. In recent years, major construction works were necessary to make the airport compatible for the Airbus A380, including a large A380 maintenance facility, because Lufthansa has stationed its A380 aircraft fleet at Frankfurt Airport. On October 20, 2011, the fourth runway went into operation, which will allow the airport to meet the predicted demand of about 700,000 aircraft movements in 2020. To handle the predicted passenger amount of about 90 million in 2020, Fraport currently builds a new terminal section at Terminal 1 for additional six million passengers and a large Terminal 3 for 25 million passengers is scheduled to be built beginning in 2013.
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On November 16, 1909, the world's first airline was founded in Frankfurt: The Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft (DELAG). DELAG then built the first airport in Frankfurt, called Airship Base at Rebstock, which was located in Bockenheim in the western part of the city and was primarily used for airships in the beginning. It opened in 1912 and was extended after World War I, but in 1924 an expert's report already questioned the possibility of further expansions at this location. With the foundation of Lufthansa in 1926 a rapid boom of civilian air travel started and soon the airship base became too small to handle the demand. Plans for a new and larger airport located in the Frankfurt City Forest south-west of Schwanheim were approved in 1930, but were not realized due to the Great Depression. After the so-called „Machtergreifung“ in 1933 the Nazi regime revived the plans and started the construction of the new airport.
The Frankfurt Rhein-Main Airport and Airship Base was officially opened on July 8, 1936. In the following years it became the second-largest airport in Germany (after Berlin Tempelhof Airport) and was home for the two largest German Zeppelins, LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin and LZ 129 Hindenburg. It was planned to make Frankfurt the most important destination for Zeppelins in Germany, but after the catastrophic crash of the Hindenburg in Lakehurst on May 6, 1937, the airship era came to an abrupt end.
World War II
After the beginning of World War II in 1939 all foreign airlines left the airport and control of air traffic was transferred to German Luftwaffe. On May 9, 1940, the first bombers took-off to attack France. From August to November 1944 a concentration camp was established in Walldorf, close to the airport ground, where Jewish female prisoners were forced to work for the airport. The Allies of World War II destroyed the runway system with airstrikes in 1944 and the Wehrmacht blew up buildings and fuel depots in 1945, shortly before the US Army took control of the airport on March 25, 1945. After the German Instrument of Surrender the war in Europe ended and the US Army started to build a new temporary runway at Frankfurt Airport. The southern part of the airport ground was occupied to build the Rhein-Main Air Base as an Air Force Base for the United States Air Forces in Europe.
Berlin Airlift
In 1948 the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway and road access to the sectors of West Berlin under Allied control. Their aim was to force the western powers to allow the Soviet zone to start supplying Berlin with food and fuel, thereby giving the Soviets practical control over the entire city. In response, the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies via air to the people in West Berlin. The airports in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Hannover were the primary bases for the allied airplanes. The heavy use of these so-called „Raisin Bombers“ caused damages to the runway in Frankfurt and forced the US Army to build a second parallel runway. The airlift ended in September 1949 after the Soviet Union had ended their blockade.
Airport growth
In 1951 restrictions for German air travellers were lifted and the civil air traffic started to grow again: In 1952 Frankfurt Airport handled more than 400.000 passengers, a year later it was more than half a million. About 100 to 120 planes started and landed in Frankfurt per day. In 1955 Lufthansa finally recommenced their flights to and from Frankfurt and in the same year the Federal Republic of Germany gained their air sovereignty back from the Allies. In 1957 the northern runway was extended, first to 3.000 meters, then up to 3.900 meters, to make it compatible for jet aircrafts.
The airport did not emerge as a major international airline hub until 1958 when a new passenger terminal called Empfangsanlage Ost (Terminal East, literally: „Arrival Facility East“) opened in the north-east corner of the airport ground. Only four years later it was clear that the terminal was yet too small for the demand: In 1961 Frankfurt already had 2.2 million passengers and 81.000 starts and landings, making it the second busiest airport in Europe behind London Heathrow Airport.
In 1962 it was decided to build an even larger terminal with a capacity for 30 million passengers per year. The works on this terminal began in 1965. The southern runway was extended to 3.750 meters in 1964. In 1970 a new airplane hangar was inaugurated: It accommodated for six jet airplanes and was the world's largest airplane hangar by that time.
Terminal Mitte
The new terminal, called Terminal Mitte (Central Terminal), today known as Terminal 1, divided into three concourses (A, B and C) with 56 gates, and an electric operated baggage handling system, was opened to the public on March 14, 1972. It was assumed that the terminal capacity would be sufficient for nearly 30 years to come. Along with the new terminal a train station (Frankfurt Airport station) opened at the airport, which was the first airport train station in the Federal Republic of Germany. A few days later the old Empfangsanlage Ost was closed.
Third runway
Planning for a third runway (called Startbahn 18 West) began in 1973. This project spawned massive protests by residents and environmentalists. The main points of conflict were increasing noises and pollution and the cutting down of protected trees in the Frankfurt City Forest. While the protests and related lawsuits were unsuccessful in preventing the construction of the runway, the Startbahn West protests were one of the major crystallization points for the German environmental movement of the 1980s. The protests even continued after the runway had been opened in 1984 and in 1987 two police officers were killed by a gunman. This incident ended the Startbahn West protests for good. Because of its location in north-south-direction, in contrast to the other two runways in east-west-direction, the use of the third runway is limited: The Startbahn West can only be used for takeoffs in the southward direction because otherwise it would interfere with the air traffic at the other runways. Due to this restriction the runway must be partially or fully closed in case the northward wind componend gets too strong.
Terminal 2
In 1990 the works on a new terminal (Terminal 2) began because it was foreseeable that Terminal Mitte would reach its capacity limit sooner than expected. The new terminal, divided into concourses D and E, was built in the east of the existing terminal where once the Empfangsanlage Ost had been. With the opening in 1994 Frankfurt Airport had pushed up its terminal capacity to 54 million passengers per year. Along with the terminal opening, a people mover system called Sky Line was established to provide a fast connection between Terminal 2 and Terminal Mitte (now renamed Terminal 1).
Second train station
In 1999 a second train station, primarily for InterCityExpress long-distance trains (called Frankfurt Airport long-distance station), opened near Terminal 1 as part of the new Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line. At the same time local and regional trains were centered at the existing underground train station, now renamed Frankfurt Airport Regional station.
Closing of the Rhein-Main Air Base
On December 31, 2005, the Rhein-Main Air Base in the southern part of the airport ground was closed and the US Air Force moved to Ramstein Air Base. The property was handed back to Fraport which allows the airport to use it to build a new passenger terminal. The property of the housing area for the soldiers, called Gateway Gardens, which was located north-east of the airport ground, was given back to the city of Frankfurt in the same year and will be developed as a business district in the following years.
Airbus A380
From 2005 to 2007 a large Airbus A380 maintenance facility was built at Frankfurt Airport because Lufthansa wanted to station their future A380-aircraft-fleet here. Due to economic reasons only half of the facility has been built so far. Both terminals also underwent major renovations in order to handle the A380, including the installation of a third boarding bridge at several gates. Lufthansa's first Airbus A380 went into operation in June 2010 and was baptised Frankfurt am Main.
The Squaire
In 2011 a large office building called The Squaire (a portmanteau of square and air) opened at Frankfurt Airport. It was built on top of the Airport long-distance station and is considered the largest office building in Germany with 140,000 m2 (1,500,000 sq ft) floor area. Main tenants are KPMG and two Hilton Hotels.
Fourth runway
Plans to build a fourth runway at Frankfurt Airport had been under-way since 1997 but due to the violent conflicts with the building of the third runway, Fraport let residents groups and environmentalists participate in the process to find an agreeable solution. In 2000 a task force presented their conclusion which generally approved a new runway, but in shorter length (only 2.800 metres compared to the other three 4.000 metres long runways) which would serve as a landing-only runway for smaller aircraft. Additional requirements included improved noise protection arrangements and a strict ban on night flights between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. across the whole airport. In 2001 Fraport applied for an approval to build a new runway, with three possible variants assessed. This concluded that a runway north-west of the airport ground would deliver the fewest adverse effects for local residents and the surrounding environment. The plans were approved by the Hessian government in December 2007, but the requested ban on night flights was lifted because it was argued that an international airport like Frankfurt would need night flights, especially for worldwide freight transport. Construction of the new 2,800 meters (9,240 feet) long Runway Northwest in the Kelsterbach Forest began in early 2009.
The runway officially went into operation on October 20, 2011, with an aircraft carrying Chancellor Angela Merkel performing the first landing on October 21.
The centre line separation from the existing north runway is about 1,400 meters (4,620 feet). This will allow for simultaneous instrument landing system (ILS) operations on these two runways, which has not been possible on the existing parallel runways because they do not meet the 3,500 foot requirement for ILS operations.[5] This will enable the airport to increase its capacity from the current 83 to 126 aircraft movements per hour.[6][7]
Preliminary ban on night flights
On October 11, 2011, the Hessian Administration Court ruled that night flights are no longer allowed at Frankfurt Airport after the inauguration of the new runway, and therefore overrode the approval from the Hessian government from 2007 which allowed 17 scheduled flights per night. A definitive ruling concerning night flights at Frankfurt Airport will be made by the German Administrative Court, but not before 2012.
With the inauguration of the fourth runway in October 2011, the airport is able to handle the predicted demand of about 700,000 aircraft movements in 2020.
To handle the predicted passenger amount of 90 million in 2020, Fraport is currently building a new terminal section at Terminal 1. Also, a new Terminal 3 is scheduled to be built south of the existing terminals beginning in 2013.
Terminal 1 expansion
A new pier, called A-Plus, is currently under construction and scheduled to open in 2012. The pier will operate flights to non-Schengen destinations and will be used exclusively by Lufthansa. It will be compatible with Airbus A380 operations and should increase the passenger capacity by six million.
Terminal 3
Fraport also plans to build a large new terminal south of the existing terminals at the ground of the former Rhein-Main Air Base. The new Terminal 3 should be able to house up to 25 million passengers and will feature 75 new aircraft positions. An extension of the people mover system SkyLine is planned to transport people to Terminal 1, the airport train stations and Terminal 2.
Frankfurt Airport has several structures for passenger, cargo and general aviation operations.
There are two passenger terminals at the airport: Terminal 1 is divided into concourses A, B and C and Terminal 2 is divided into concourses D and E. Lufthansa also maintains a dedicated terminal for use by their First Class passengers.
Terminal 1 opened on 14 March 1972, and was called Terminal Mitte (Central Terminal) since it was located between two runways, and between the original terminal in the east and the cargo area in the west. It was designed in a modern style for the period, with polished silver interiors and corrugated walls.
The terminal is functionally divided into three levels, the departure level in the upper deck with check-in counters, the arrival level with´baggage claim areas at ground level and, underneath, a distribution level with access to the (regional) train station and underground and multilevel parking. Departure and arrivals levels each have separate street approaches. A bus station is located at arrivals level. Parallel to the terminal, on the other side of the street, are a hotel and an office building ("FAC" = Frankfurt Airport Centre). The three-level underground parking garages are beneath those buildings. The tracks of the train station run between the terminal itself and the range of office and hotel buildings.
The landside of Terminal 1 is 420 meters long. Horizontally, it is divided into three areas (Concourses A, B and C).
A satellite view of Terminal 1 shows it to have 54 gates equipped with jetways (25 in Concourse A, 18 in Concourse B, 11 in Concourse C). Frankfurt Airport's official website shows a total of 103 gates (a figure which includes "stand" gates, which are gates with no jetways).
Lufthansa and its Star Alliance partners currently dominate Terminal 1.
Terminal 2 was opened in 1994 containing gate areas D and E. It is to the east of Terminal 1. A continuous concourse between 1C and 2D provides direct access between the two terminals. Terminal 2 has eight gates with jetways and 34 stands, a total of 42 gates.
Lufthansa has a separate First Class Terminal at Frankfurt Airport (50.049166 N,8.565856 E) for the use of its first class passengers. The terminal can only be used by passengers flying Lufthansa First Class or Lufthansa's Miles & More HON Circle members. They also must be departing on a flight operated by Air Dolomiti, Austrian Airlines Group, Lufthansa, Lufthansa Regional or SWISS. Passengers flying other Star Alliance partners in First Class do not have access to the First Class Terminal. The terminal has 200 staff and is used by about 300 passengers daily. It provides individualised security screening and customs facilities, valet parking, a white-linen restaurant, a cigar room and bubble baths. Passengers clear exit immigration controls in the terminal and then are driven from the terminal directly to their aircraft by a chaffeured Mercedes-Benz S-Class or Porsche Panamera. The commercial success of the FCT at Frankfurt has led Lufthansa to plan the opening of a similar facility at Munich Airport.[8]
| Airlines | Destinations | Terminal/ Concourse |
|---|---|---|
| Adria Airways | Ljubljana, Pristina | 1A |
| Aegean Airlines | Athens, Thessaloniki | 1B |
| Aer Lingus | Dublin | 2D |
| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo | 2E |
| Air Algérie | Algiers | 1B |
| Air Astana | Astana | 2E |
| Air Berlin | Antalya, Berlin-Tegel, Catania, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Palma de Mallorca Seasonal: Alicante, Corfu, Heringsdorf [begins 5 May 2012], Ibiza, Kavala, Lamezia Terme, Olbia, Rhodes, Samos, Thessaloniki, Zakynthos |
2E |
| Air Canada | Calgary, Montréal-Trudeau, Ottawa, Toronto-Pearson | 1C |
| Air China | Beijing-Capital, Shanghai-Pudong | 1B |
| Air Dolomiti | Milan-Orio al Serio | 1B |
| Air France | Paris-Charles de Gaulle | 2D |
| Air India | Delhi | 1B |
| Air Malta | Catania, Malta | 1C |
| Air Mauritius | Mauritius | 2D |
| Air Moldova | Chişinău | 1B |
| Air Namibia | Windhoek | 2D |
| Air Transat | Seasonal: Calgary, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver | 2D |
| Air VIA | Seasonal charter: Burgas, Varna | 2D |
| airBaltic | Riga | 2E |
| Alitalia | Rome-Fiumicino | 2D |
| Alitalia operated by Alitalia CityLiner | Milan-Linate | 2D |
| All Nippon Airways | Tokyo-Haneda [begins 21 January 2012],[9] Tokyo-Narita | 1B |
| American Airlines | Dallas/Fort Worth | 2E |
| Asiana Airlines | Seoul-Incheon | 1B |
| Atlasjet | Charter: Antalya, Istanbul-Ataturk | 2D |
| Austrian Airlines | Vienna | 1A |
| Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways | Vienna | 1A |
| AVE.com | Baghdad | 2E |
| Azerbaijan Airlines | Baku | 2D |
| Belavia | Minsk | 2D |
| bmi operated by bmi regional | Nottingham/East Midlands | 1A |
| British Airways | London-Heathrow | 2E |
| British Airways operated by BA CityFlyer | London-City | 2E |
| Bulgaria Air | Sofia | 1C |
| Bulgarian Air Charter | Seasonal charter: Burgas, Varna | 2D |
| Cathay Pacific | Hong Kong | 2E |
| China Airlines | Taipei-Taoyuan | 2D |
| China Eastern Airlines | Shanghai-Pudong | 2D |
| Cirrus Airlines | Hof/Plauen | 1A |
| Condor Flugdienst | Agadir, Antalya, Arrecife, Banjul, Barbados, Cancún, Dalaman, Fort Lauderdale, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Havana, Holguín, Hurghada, Kilimanjaro, Larnaca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Vegas, Málaga, Mahé, Malé, Mauritius, Mombasa, Montego Bay, Nairobi, Orlando, Palma de Mallorca, Panama City, Paphos, Porlamar, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Recife, Saint Lucia, Salvador da Bahia, San José de Costa Rica, San Juan, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Santo Domingo, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tenerife-South, Varadero, Zanzibar Seasonal: Anchorage, Antigua, Baltimore [begins 2 July 2012],[10] Burgas, Calgary, Chania, Colombo, Constanta [begins 22 May], Corfu, Djerba, Dubai, Dubrovnik, Fairbanks, Halifax, Heraklion, Ibiza, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, La Romana, Luxor, Marsa Alam, Phuket, Pointe-à-Pitre, Rhodes, Rijeka [begins 5 May 2012], Santorini, Seattle/Tacoma, Split, Tivat, Tobago, Toronto-Pearson [begins 22 June 2012], Vancouver, Whitehorse |
1C |
| Croatia Airlines | Dubrovnik, Split, Zagreb | 1A |
| Cyprus Airways | Larnaca | 1B |
| Czech Airlines | Prague | 2D |
| Delta Air Lines | Atlanta, Detroit, New York-JFK | 2D |
| EgyptAir | Cairo | 1B |
| El Al | Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion | 1C |
| Emirates | Dubai | 2E |
| Ethiopian Airlines | Addis Ababa | 1B |
| Etihad Airways | Abu Dhabi | 2E |
| Finnair | Helsinki | 2E |
| Flybe | Glasgow-International, Southampton | 2E |
| Georgian Airways | Tbilisi | 2D |
| Germanwings | Pristina | 2D |
| Gulf Air | Bahrain | 2D |
| Iberia | Madrid | 2E |
| Icelandair | Reykjavík-Keflavík | 2E |
| Iran Air | Tehran-Imam Khomeini | 1C |
| Japan Airlines | Tokyo-Narita | 2D |
| Jat Airways | Belgrade | 1C |
| Jet4you | Agadir, Marrakech | 2C |
| KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper | Amsterdam | 2D |
| Korean Air | Seoul-Incheon | 2D |
| Kuwait Airways | Kuwait, Geneva | 1B |
| LAN Airlines | Madrid, Santiago de Chile | 2E |
| LOT Polish Airlines | Gdańsk, Kraków, Poznań, Warsaw | 1A |
| LOT Polish Airlines operated by EuroLOT | Poznań, Wrocław | 1A |
| Lufthansa | Abu Dhabi, Abuja, Addis Ababa, Algiers, Almaty, Amman-Queen Alia, Amsterdam, Ankara, Arbil, Ashgabat, Asmara, Astana, Athens, Atlanta, Bahrain, Baku, Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Belgrade, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Billund, Birmingham, Bogotá, Bologna, Boston, Bremen, Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Cairo, Calgary [ends 4 February 2012], Caracas, Casablanca, Chennai, Chicago-O'Hare, Copenhagen, Dallas/Fort Worth, Delhi, Denver, Detroit, Doha, Dresden, Dubai, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Faro, Geneva, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Graz, Guangzhou [ends 26 March 2012], Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Houston-Intercontinental, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Kazan, Khartoum, Kiev-Boryspil, Kolkata [ends 24 March 2012],[11] Kraków, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lagos, Larnaca, Leipzig/Halle, Linz, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Luanda, Lyon, Madrid, Malabo, Málaga, Malta, Manchester, Marseille, Mexico City, Miami, Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Vnukovo [begins 25 March 2012],[12] Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nagoya-Centrair, Nanjing, Naples, New York-JFK, Newark, Nice, Nizhniy Novgorod, Nuremberg, Orlando, Osaka-Kansai, Oslo-Gardermoen, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Perm, Philadelphia, Port Harcourt, Porto, Prague, Riga, Qingdao [begins 26 March 2012],[13] Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino, Rostock-Laage, Saint Petersburg, Samara, San Francisco, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Seattle/Tacoma, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Shenyang [resumes 26 March 2012],[13] Singapore, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Tallinn, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson, Toulouse, Tripoli [resumes 30 January], Tunis, Turin, Vancouver, Venice-Marco Polo, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Washington-Dulles, Yekaterinburg, Zagreb, Zürich Seasonal: Cape Town | 1A, 1B, 1C |
| Lufthansa operated by BMI | Birmingham, Manchester | 1A |
| Lufthansa operated by PrivatAir | Accra, Dammam, Libreville, Pointe-Noire, Pune | 1A |
| Lufthansa operated by Tyrolean Airways | Innsbruck, Salzburg | 1A |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti | Turin, Verona | 1A |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine | Aberdeen, Basel/Mulhouse, Bergen, Billund, Brussels, Florence, Friedrichshafen, Gdańsk, Graz, Katowice, Leipzig/Halle, Linz, London-City, Minsk, Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Rostov-on-Don, Poznań, Rzeszów, Split, Stavanger, Stuttgart, Turin, Wrocław Seasonal: Klagenfurt, Palermo, Trondheim |
1A |
| Luxair | Luxembourg | 1B |
| Malaysia Airlines | Kuala Lumpur | 2D |
| Malév Hungarian Airlines | Budapest | 2E |
| Middle East Airlines | Beirut | 1B |
| Montenegro Airlines | Podgorica | 2D |
| Niki | Vienna | 2E |
| Nouvelair | Charter: Enfidha | 2E |
| Oman Air | Muscat | 2E |
| Pakistan International Airlines | Islamabad, Lahore | 2D |
| Qantas | Singapore, Sydney | 2E |
| Qatar Airways | Doha | 1B |
| RAK Airways | Charter: Ras Al Khaimah | 2E |
| Rossiya | Saint Petersburg | 2D |
| Royal Air Maroc | Casablanca, Nador | 1B |
| Royal Jordanian | Amman-Queen Alia | 2E |
| S7 Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk | 2E |
| Saravia | Seasonal: Saratov | 2E |
| SATA International | Ponta Delgada | 2E |
| Saudi Arabian Airlines | Jeddah, Riyadh | 2D |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Copenhagen, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda | 1A |
| Singapore Airlines | New York-JFK, Singapore | 1B, 1C |
| Sky Airlines | Charter: Antalya | 2D |
| Skyways Express | Seasonal: Jönköping | 1C |
| Somon Air | Dushanbe | 2D |
| South African Airways | Johannesburg | 1B |
| Spanair | Madrid | 1A |
| SriLankan Airlines | Colombo | 2E |
| Sun d'Or operated by El Al | Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion | 1C |
| SunExpress | Antalya, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, İzmir | 1B |
| SunExpress operated by SunExpress Deutschland | Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Gaziantep, Kayseri, Samsun Seasonal: Elazig, Trabzon |
1B |
| Swiss International Air Lines | Zürich | 1A |
| Swiss International Airlines operated by Swiss European Air Lines | Zürich | 1A |
| Syrianair | Aleppo, Damascus | 2E |
| Tailwind Airlines | Charter: Antalya | 2E |
| TAM Airlines | Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, São Paulo-Guarulhos | 1C |
| TAP Portugal | Lisbon | 1A |
| TAROM | Bucharest-Otopeni, Cluj-Napoca | 1B |
| Thai Airways International | Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi | 1C |
| Transaero Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo | 2D |
| TUIfly | Arrecife, Boa Vista, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Marsa Alam, Sal, Tenerife-South Seasonal: Agadir, Antalya, Corfu, Dalaman, Enfidha, Faro, Funchal, Heraklion, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Luxor, Minorca, Palma de Mallorca, Patras/Araxos, Rhodes |
2D |
| Tunisair | Djerba, Enfidha, Tunis | 1C |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk | 1B |
| Turkish Airlines operated by Anadolujet | Ankara | 1B |
| Turkmenistan Airlines | Ashgabat | 2D |
| Ukraine International Airlines | Kiev-Boryspil Seasonal: Simferopol |
2D |
| United Airlines | Chicago-O'Hare, Houston-Intercontinental, Newark, San Francisco, Washington-Dulles | 1B |
| US Airways | Charlotte, Philadelphia | 1C |
| Uzbekistan Airways | Tashkent | 2D |
| Vietnam Airlines | Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City | 2D |
| Viking Hellas | Arbil, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Malmö | 2E |
| VLM Airlines | Seasonal: Antwerp, Guernsey, Jersey | 2D |
| XL Airways Germany | Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Kayseri, Malatya, Marrakech, Samsun | 2D |
| Yemenia | Sana'a | 2E |
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| ACT Airlines | Istanbul-Sabiha Gökcen |
| AeroLogic | Atlanta, Chicago-O'Hare, Hong Kong, Houston, Lahore, Leipzig/Halle |
| Air Algérie Cargo | Algiers |
| Air China Cargo | Beijing-Capital, Dalian, Novosibirsk, Shanghai-Pudong |
| Air France Cargo | Paris |
| Air India Cargo | Bangalore, Mumbai |
| AirBridgeCargo Airlines | Krasnojarsk, Moscow-Sheremetyewo |
| Asiana Cargo | Seoul-Incheon, Gothenburg, Moscow-Domodedovo, Vienna |
| Atlas Air | Houston Intercontinental, Hahn, Miami International |
| British Airways World Cargo | Atlanta, Bangalore, Chicago-O'Hare, Delhi, Dubai, Hong Kong, London-Stansted |
| Cargo Garuda Indonesia | Jakarta-Soekarno Hatta |
| Cathay Pacific Cargo | Delhi, Dubai, Hong Kong, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Mumbai, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| China Airlines | Abu Dhabi, Taipei-Taoyuan |
| China Southern Airlines | Shanghai-Pudong, Urumqi |
| Emirates SkyCargo | Campinas-Viracopos, Dakar, Dubai |
| European Air Transport | London-Heathrow |
| Eva Air Cargo | Dubai, Taipei-Taoyuan |
| FedEx Express | Cologne, Memphis |
| FedEx Feeder operated by Air Contractors |
Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Grandstar Cargo | Shanghai-Pudong, Tianjin |
| Iran Air Cargo | Tehran-Mehrabad |
| Korean Air Cargo | Brussels, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Navoi, Seoul-Incheon, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tel Aviv |
| LAN Cargo | Amsterdam, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Campinas-Viracopos, Lima, Santiago de Chile |
| Lufthansa Cargo | Aguadilla, Almaty, Amsterdam, Athens, Atlanta, Bahrain, Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Bogota, Brussels, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Cairo, Campinas-Viracopos, Chennai, Chicago-O'Hare, Curitiba, Dakar, Dallas/Fort Worth, Delhi, Dhaka, Gothenburg, Guadalajara, Guangzhou, Guayaquil, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Karaganda, Kolkata, Krasnoyarsk, Kuwait, Lima, Los Angeles, Malta, Manchester, Mexico City, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Nairobi, New York-JFK, Nottingham, East-Midlands, Osaka-Kansai, Quito, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Riyadh, Santa Cruz Viru Viru, Seattle/Tacoma, Shanghai-Pudong, Shannon, Sharjah, Shenzhen, Tashkent, Tianjin, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson |
| MASkargo | Amsterdam, Colombo, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Tashkent |
| National Airlines | Doha, Hong Kong, Karaganda, Kuwait, Quetta |
| Nightexpress | Coventry |
| Qatar Airways Cargo | Doha |
| Singapore Airlines Cargo | Bangalore, Sharjah, Singapore[14] |
| Southern Air | Anchorage |
| Thai Airways International | Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Dubai, Hong Kong |
| TNT Airways | Liege, Dubai |
| Turkish Airlines Cargo | Istanbul-Atatürk |
| Uzbekistan Airways Cargo | Tashkent, Baku |
| World Airways | Miami International |
Routes and Airlines which are operated by the Airbus A380:
Frankfurt has two cargo terminals, North and South, as well as a separate General Aviation Terminal on the south side of the airport. A Sheraton hotel with more than 1,000 rooms is adjacent to Terminal 1. Terminal 1 also has a full-service German Post Office and a DHL office open to the public.
Fraport's facilities are on the property of Frankfurt Airport.[15] Its head office building is by Gate 3.[16] As of 2010 Fraport's new headquarters, located by Gate 3, are under construction.[17] The building is scheduled to open in 2012.[18] The Fraport Driving School (Fraport Fahrschule) is in Building 501 of CargoCity South (CargoCity Süd).[19][20]
Lufthansa Cargo is headquartered in Building 451 of the Frankfurt Airport area.[21] Lufthansa operates the Lufthansa Aviation Center (LAC) at Frankfurt Airport.[22] Several company departments, including Corporate Communications,[23] Investor Relations,[24] and Media Relations,[25] are based out of the LAC.
Airmail Center Frankfurt, a joint venture of Lufthansa Cargo, Fraport, and Deutsche Post, has its head office in Building 189, between Terminals 1 and 2.[26]
There are two railway stations at Frankfurt Airport: one for suburban/regional trains and one for long distance trains.
Frankfurt Airport Regional station at Terminal 1 provides access to the S-Bahn commuter rail lines S8 and S9 which depart every 15 minutes during the day to Wiesbaden in the west via Rüsselsheim and Mainz and to Hanau in the east via Frankfurt Central Station, Frankfurt city centre and Offenbach am Main Ost. The journey time to Frankfurt Central Station is 11 minutes, to the city centre (Hauptwache) 15 minutes. The first S-Bahn trains arrive at 4:28h from Frankfurt and Hanau, and at 4:29h from Mainz and Wiesbaden; the last ones depart at 1:32h to Frankfurt, at 0:29h to Wiesbaden and at 0:59h to Rüsselsheim.
Regional-Express trains to other destinations like Saarbrücken in the west, Koblenz in the Rhine valley to the north, or Würzburg in the east also call at the Regional Railway Station, as do some long distance trains, especially at night when the Long Distance Railway Station is closed.
Frankfurt Airport long-distance station was opened in 1999. It is the end point of the newly-built Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line, which links southern Germany to the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area, the Netherlands and Belgium via Cologne at speeds up to 300 km/h (190 mph). All ICE trains between Cologne and southern Germany stop at Frankfurt Airport, taking slightly less than an hour from Cologne. About 10 trains per hour depart in all directions.
The station is squeezed in between the A3 and the four-lane Bundesstraße B43, linked to Terminal 1 by a building that bridges the Autobahn. Railway passengers can check in right at the train station for about 60 airlines.
Deutsche Bahn operates the AIRail Service in conjunction with Lufthansa, American Airlines and Emirates. The service operates to the central stations of Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Hamburg, Hannover, Mannheim, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart and to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe.
Various transport companies provide bus services to the airport.
Frankfurt Airport is located in the Frankfurt City Forest and directly connected to an Autobahn intersection called Frankfurter Kreuz where the A3 and A5 meet. It takes a 10–15 minutes by car or taxi to get to Frankfurt Central Station or the city centre.
Passengers driving their owns cars can park in multilevel parking garages (mostly underground) along the terminals. A long term holiday parking lot is located south of the runways and connected by shuttle bus to the terminals.
In 2006, 29.5% of the 12,299,192 passengers whose air travel originated in Frankfurt came by private car, 27.9% came by rail, 20.4% by taxi, 11.1% parked their car at the airport for the duration of their trip, 5.3% came by bus, and 4.6% arrived with a rental car.[27]
On 22 May 1983 during an Air show at Rhein-Main Air Base, a Canadian RCAF Lockheed F-104 Starfighter crashed into a nearby road, hitting a car and killing all passengers, a vicar's family of five. The pilot was able to eject.
In 1988 the first leg of Pan Am Flight 103 (a Boeing 727) took off from Frankfurt. About half of the passengers and baggage were from other flights and had changed planes to Flight 103 (a Boeing 747) at Heathrow Airport to continue to New York. A bomb exploded on the aircraft above the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all the passengers on board. The bomb is believed to have been planted by Libyan terrorists.
In September 2007, German authorities arrested three suspected Islamic terrorists for plotting a "massive" terror attack, which posed "an imminent threat" to Frankfurt Airport and the US Air Force base in Ramstein.[28]
On 2 March 2011, a gunman opened fire on a bus carrying US Air Force personnel at Frankfurt Airport, killing two and wounding two others.[29]
In 2010, Frankfurt Airport was the third busiest airport in Europe in terms of total passenger traffic, but it was second behind Charles de Gaulle in terms of plane movements and cargo traffic.
| Rank | Airport | departing Passengers | Airlines |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Berlin-Tegel | 802,000 | Lufthansa, Air Berlin |
| 2 | Hamburg | 745,100 | Lufthansa, Air Berlin |
| 3 | London-Heathrow | 620,500 | British Airways, Lufthansa |
| 4 | Munich | 475,100 | Lufthansa |
| 5 | Madrid | 459,400 | Iberia, LAN Airlines, Lufthansa, Spanair |
| 6 | Chicago-O'Hare | 451,700 | American Airlines, Lufthansa, United Airlines |
| 7 | Vienna | 450,200 | Adria Airways, Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa, Niki |
| 8 | Paris-Charles de Gaulle | 448,200 | Air France, Lufthansa |
| 9 | Singapore | 429,500 | Lufthansa, Qantas, Singapore Airlines |
| 10 | New York-JFK | 365,400 | Delta, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines |
| 11 | Istanbul-Atatürk | 355,900 | Condor, Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines |
| 12 | Dubai | 337,700 | Condor, Emirates, Lufthansa |
| 13 | Washington-Dulles | 334,900 | Lufthansa, United Airlines |
| 14 | Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi | 330,900 | Lufthansa, Thai Airways |
| 15 | Rome-Fiumicino | 320,300 | Alitalia, Ethiopian Airlines, Lufthansa |
| 16 | Tokyo-Narita | 302,600 | All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines, Lufthansa |
| 17 | Barcelona | 295.055 | Lufthansa, Spanair |
| 19 | Toronto-Pearson | 289,100 | Air Canada, Air Transat, Lufthansa |
| 20 | Antalya | 285,000 | Condor, Pegasus Airlines, Sky Airlines, SunExpress, TUIFly, XL Airways |
| 21 | Amsterdam | 282,200 | KLM, Lufthansa |
| 22 | Palma de Mallorca | 280,000 | Air Berlin, Condor, TUIfly, Lufthansa |
| 23 | San Francisco | 277,300 | Lufthansa, United Airlines |
| 24 | Copenhagen | 276,400 | Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines |
| 25 | Zurich | 272,700 | Lufthansa, Swiss International Air Lines |
| 26 | Beijing-Capital | 270,500 | Air China, Lufthansa |
| 27 | Shanghai-Pudong | 264,900 | Air China, China Eastern Airlines, Lufthansa |
| 28 | Stockholm-Arlanda | 264,000 | Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines |
| 29 | Newark | 255,000 | Continental, Lufthansa |
| 30 | Lisbon | 253,900 | Lufthansa, TAP Portugal |
| 31 | Seoul-Incheon | 236,400 | Asiana Airlines, Korean Air, Lufthansa |
| 32 | Athens | 228,100 | Aegean Airlines, Lufthansa |
| 33 | São Paulo-Guarulhos | 223,500 | Lufthansa, TAM Airlines |
| 34 | Helsinki | 222,700 | Finnair, Lufthansa |
| 35 | Hong Kong | 221,700 | Cathay Pacific, Lufthansa |
| 36 | Moscow-Domodedovo | 220,500 | Lufthansa, S7 Airlines, Transaero |
| 37 | Prague | 220,000 | Czech Airlines, Lufthansa |
| 38 | Dublin | 214,700 | Aer Lingus, Lufthansa |
| 39 | Oslo-Gardermoen | 213,300 | Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines |
| 40 | Tel Aviv | 211,300 | El Al, Lufthansa, Sun d'Or International Airlines |