Fraport first-half traffic figures show slight decline

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German airport group Fraport has registered a 1.6% decline in passenger traffic in the first half of the year, with the group's six airports handling almost 30.9m travellers.

German airport group Fraport has registered a 1.6% decline in passenger traffic in the first half of the year, with the group's six airports handling almost 30.9m travellers. Almost 22.5m passengers passed through Frankfurt International airport alone, representing a drop of 2.1% compared to the same period last year. But Fraport said it was confident that the next half's results would be stronger.

Fraport's other airports had mixed fortunes. The biggest decrease was at Antalya airport in Turkey, where the Iraq conflict and holidaymakers' preference for western Mediterranean vacations contributed to a 16.6% drop in footfall to almost 2.9m. Frankfurt-Hahn continued its impressive growth, with 1.1m passengers using the airport in the six months, 81.1% more than in the first half of 2002.