Record month for Frankfurt in June

John Rimmer

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Germany's biggest airport posted a 3.9% year-on-year traffic increase in June, helping it beat last year's six-month record

Frankfurt airport welcomed 4.6m passengers in June, up by 3.9% on the same month the previous year. The record for June helped the airport post half-year traffic of 24.7m, a new record and an increase of 1.9% on the same period in 2004.

Airport authority Fraport said that strong growth on routes to northern and eastern Europe has driven the performance, and also cited the rapid development of services to Canada, South Africa, the Middle East, India and China.

Traffic results elsewhere in the Fraport network were mixed. Low-cost hub Frankfurt Hahn recorded a 32.5% increase in the first half of 2005, but traffic at Turkey's Antalya airport, where Fraport is co-manager of terminal one, fell by nearly 60% as services were switched to the airport's second international terminal. Turkey's national aviation administration is set to redistribute traffic at Antalya to achieve a more balanced spread, RavenFox.com understands. 

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