Frankfurt Airport Flughafen Frankfurt am Main |
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Owner/Operator | Fraport | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Serves | Frankfurt, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elevation AMSL | 364 ft / 111 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 50°02′00″N 008°34′14″E / 50.03333°N 8.57056°ECoordinates: 50°02′00″N 008°34′14″E / 50.03333°N 8.57056°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | frankfurt-airport.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sources: Fraport,AIP at EUROCONTROL
A:^ used for take-offs in one direction only |
Passengers | 60,792,308 0.4% |
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Cargo (t) | 2,150,000 2.6% |
Aircraft movements | 462,885 0.3% |
Economic impact | $22.3 billion |
A:^ used for take-offs in one direction only
Frankfurt Airport (IATA: FRA, ICAO: EDDF) (German: Flughafen Frankfurt am Main, also known as Rhein-Main-Flughafen) is a major international airport located in Frankfurt, the fifth-largest city of Germany and one of the world's leading financial centres. It is operated by Fraport and serves as the main hub for Lufthansa including Lufthansa CityLine and Lufthansa Cargo as well as Condor and AeroLogic. The airport covers an area of 2,000 hectares (4,942 acres) of land and features two passenger terminals with a capacity of approximately 65 million passengers per year, four runways and extensive logistics and maintenance facilities.
Frankfurt Airport is by far the busiest airport by passenger traffic in Germany as well as the 4th busiest in Europe after London Heathrow Airport, Paris–Charles de Gaulle Airport and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The airport is also the 12th busiest worldwide by total number of passengers in 2015, with 61.032 million passengers using the airport in 2015, an increase of 2.5% from 2014. It also had a freight throughput of 2.076 million metric tonnes in 2015 and is the busiest airport in Europe by cargo traffic. As of summer 2017, Frankfurt Airport serves 293 destinations, making it the airport with the most direct routes in the world.