Frankfurt International Airport

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Frankfurt International Airport
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Summary
IATA FRA ICAO EDDF
Airport type public
Operator Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide
Serves Frankfurt, Germany
Elevation MSL 371 ft (113 m)
Coordinates 50°02′N 08°34′E

Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
07L/25R 13,123 4000 Paved
07R/25L 13,123 4000 Paved
18/36 13,123 4000 Paved

The Frankfurt International Airport (IATA: FRA, ICAO: EDDF) (German: Rhein-Main-Flughafen or Flughafen Frankfurt am Main) is located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is the largest airport in Germany and the second or third-largest in Europe (depending on which data is used), serving as an important hub for international flights from around the world. It is run by Fraport AG. The southern side of the airport, until late 2005, was known as Rhein-Main Air Base, a major airlift base for the United States from 1947 on.

Frankfurt International is a hub of Lufthansa, the German flag carrier. Because of undercapacity in Frankfurt, Lufthansa divides traffic between Frankfurt and Munich's Franz Josef Strauß International Airport when possible.

Frankfurt International currently serves more destinations than London's Heathrow International Airport, but in terms of passenger traffic Frankfurt International is third in Europe, behind London's Heathrow Airport and Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport.

  • Passenger traffic at Frankfurt International Airport in 2004 was 51,098,271 [1], compared with 67,344,054 at Heathrow Airport, and 51,260,363 at Charles de Gaulle Airport.
  • In terms of plane movement, Frankfurt was second in Europe with 477,475 planes [2], between Charles de Gaulle Airport (525,660) and Heathrow (475,999).
  • In terms of cargo traffic, Frankfurt was also second with 1,838,894 metric tonnes (2,027,034 US tons) [3], just behind Charles de Gaulle Airport (1,876,900 metric tonnes), but ahead of Heathrow (1,412,033 metric tonnes).


Nevertheless, there are plans to expand Frankfurt Airport with a fourth runway and a new Terminal 3, and to modify the airport to be able to service the new Airbus A-380 plane, by building a large A380 maintenance facility near the former U.S. Air Base. After Dubai (with forty-three A380s), the airport will be the base for the second-largest A380-fleet in the world (up to fifteen A380s).

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History

The Rhein-Main Airport and Airship Base opened in 1936, and was the second-largest airport in Germany (after Tempelhof Airport in Berlin) through World War II. After the war, it served as the main West German operations base for the Berlin Airlift.

The airport did not emerge as a major international hub until 1972, when its new passenger terminal (now Terminal 1) opened.

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Incidents on flights that departed from Frankfurt

In 1969, Ariana Flight 701, a Boeing 727 of Ariana Afghan Airlines was arriving to London Gatwick Airport from Frankfurt International when it crashed into a house, killing 50 of the 66 people aboard. Two people died on the ground.

On 22 May 1983 during an airshow at the Rhein-Main Air Base, a Canadian RCAF F-104 Starfighter crashes onto a nearby street, hitting a car and killing all passengers, the 5 headed family of a pastor. The pilot was able to eject.

The first leg of Pan Am Flight 103 (a Boeing 727) took off from Frankfurt. About half of the passengers and luggage changed plane at Heathrow Airport.

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Structure and function

Frankfurt Airport has two passenger terminals, which are connected by corridors as well as by people movers and buses.

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Terminal 1

Image:AirportFrankfurt terminal1.jpg Terminal 1 opened on March 14th, 1972. It was designed in a modern style for the period, with polished silver interiors and corrugated walls. It is divided into three concourses.

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Concourse A

  • Adria Airways (Ljubljana, Ohrid, Podgorica, Priština, Sarajevo, Skopje, Vienna)
  • Air Baltic (Riga)
  • Air Dolomiti (Bologna, Florence, Verona)
  • Air One (Milan/Linate and Rome)
  • Austrian Airlines (Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg)
  • Avianca (Bogotá (starts 2006))
  • Blue Panorama Airlines (Rome)
  • Blue Wings (Moscow/Sheremetyevo)
  • Cimber Air (Kiel)
  • Condor Airlines (Agadir, Anchorage, Antalya, Bourgas, Cancun, Colombo, Fairbanks, Faro, Fort Myers, Halifax, Havana, Holguin, Ibiza, La Palma, Lanzarote, Larnaca, Las Vegas, Manorca, Mauritius, Mombasa, Oslo, Palma de Mallorca, Porlamar, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Rhodes, San José (CR), Tenerife-Sur Reina, Thessaloniki, Tobago, Valencia, Vancouver, Varadero, Varna, Whitehorse)
  • Lufthansa (Abu Dhabi, Abuja, Accra, Addis Ababa, Alexandria, Algiers, Almaty, Amman, Amsterdam, Ashgabat, Asmara, Athens, Atlanta, Baku, Bangalore, Bangkok, Barcelona, Beijing, Beirut, Belgrade, Berlin/Tegel, Bilbao, Billund, Birmingham (UK), Bologna, Boston, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Calgary, Cape Town, Caracas, Casablanca, Chania, Charlotte, Chicago/O'Hare, Copenhagen, Dallas/Fort Worth, Dammam, Delhi, Denver, Detroit, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Edinburgh, Faro, Florence, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Hof-Plauen, Hong Kong, Houston/Intercontinental, Hyderabad, Istanbul, Jakarta, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Karachi, Katowice, Kazan, Khartoum, Kiev, Klagenfurt, Lagos, Larnaca, Leipzig, Linz, Lisbon, London/City, London/Gatwick, London/Heathrow, Los Angeles, Madras, Madrid, Manila, Marseille, Mexico City, Miami, Milan/Linate, Milan/Malpensa, Minsk, Montréal, Moscow/Sheremetyevo, Muenster/Osnabrueck, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nagoya, New York/JFK, Newark, Nice, Nizhniy Novgorod, Oslo, Osaka/Kansai, Paderborn, Paris/CDG, Perm, Philadelphia, Portland, Porto, Poznan, Prague, Riga, Rimini, Riyadh, Rome/Fiumicino, Rostov, St. Petersburg (RU), Salzburg, Samara, San Francisco, Sanaa, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Split, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Sydney, Taipei, Tallinn, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Tokyo Narita, Tolouse, Toronto, Tripoli, Tunis, Turin, Ufa, Valencia, Vancouver, Verona, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Washington/Dulles, Wroclaw, Zagreb, Zurich)
  • Luxair (Luxembourg)
  • Omskavia Airlines (Chelyabinsk and Omsk)
  • Scandinavian Airlines (Bilbao, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm, Tromso)
  • Spanair (Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Vilnius)
  • Tyrolean
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Concourse B

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Concourse C

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Terminal 2

Image:AirportFrankfurt terminal2.jpg Terminal 2 opened on October 24th, 1994. It is designed to resemble a classical railway station from its landside facade. It is divided into two concourses.

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Concourse D

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Concourse E

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Other Features & Amenities

Frankfurt has two cargo terminals, North and South, as well as a separate General Aviation Terminal on the south side of the airport. There is also a Sheraton hotel adjacent to Terminal 1. Terminal 1 also has a full-service German government Post Office & DHL office open to the public.

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Ground transportation

Image:Flughafen-Fernbahnsteig Fahrstuhl-Frankfurt am Main.JPG Deutsche Bahn operates the AiRail Service in conjunction with Lufthansa, American Airlines and Emirates. There is a fast ICE service to Cologne with one or two stops only.

The service operates to Bonn Hbf Rail Station, Cologne Hbf Rail Station, Düsseldorf Hbf Rail Station, Freiburg Hbf Rail Station, Hamburg Hbf Rail Station, Hanover Hbf Rail Station, Mannheim Hbf Rail Station, Munich Hbf Railway Station, Nuremberg Hbf Rail Station, and Stuttgart Hbf Rail Station. The AirRail long-distance railway station is adjacent to Terminal 1.

The airport is located adjacent to the A3 and A5 Autobahnen: taxis to the city center cost approximately 20 euro.

An S-Bahn connection to Frankfurt is available; it costs about €4. Trains take 12 minutes to reach Frankfurt centre-city stations and depart roughly every 15 minutes on weekdays from the regional train station underneath Terminal 1.

Various companies provide bus services to the airport.

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External links

fr:Aéroport de Francfort ja:フランクフルト国際空港 no:Flughafen Frankfurt am Main ro:Aeroportul Internaţional Frankfurt ru:Международный аэропорт Франкфурт-на-Майне sv:Flughafen Frankfurt am Main zh:法兰克福国际机场

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