Fraport AG (FPRUF.PK,0O1R.L,FRA.DE), the owner and operator of Germany's Frankfurt Airport, on Friday reported a 5.5 percent growth in traffic for the month of January, helped by favorable winter weather conditions.
About 4.08 million passengers traveled in the month, up from 3.87 million passengers in the prior year. Seat load factor grew to 68.8 percent from 67.6 percent.
Aircraft movements rose 0.7 percent to 37,651 takeoffs and landings. Total accumulated maximum takeoff weights, or MTOWs, slipped by 1.6 percent to 2.24 million metric tons.
In the airfreight segment, traffic dropped 16.8 percent to 141,340 metric tons year-on-year, while Airmail traffic gained 3 percent to 6,901 metric tons year-on-year.
The decline in airfreight traffic was due partly to uncertainty in the global economy as well as the existing nighttime flight curfew imposed at the beginning of Winter Timetable 2011/2012. Additionally, the two-week-long Chinese New Year's festival started on January 23, while in the prior year it fell completely in February. The production slowdown associated with the New Year impacted Far East traffic.
Punctuality figure was 85.1 percent in the month, also positively affected by the favorable weather, in addition to the increased capacity and operational flexibility created by the new Runway Northwest inaugurated in last October.
Fraport's five majority-owned airports grew passengers by 6.6 percent to 5.7 million. Traffic at Peru's Lima Airport grew 8 percent and the Antalya Airport on the Turkish Riviera saw a double-digit growth of 14.5 percent year-on-year.
On the Bulgaria Black Sea coast, traffic at Burgas Airport surged over 150 percent to some 21,000 passengers, partially due to the diversion of traffic from Varna Airport, which has been temporarily closed for reconstruction work from October 15, 2011 to February 28, 2012.
Fraport settled on the Xetra in Frankfurt on Thursday higher by 0.89 percent at 45.13 euros on a volume of 168,353 shares.
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