Frankfurt Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Fraport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Frankfurt am Main | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Flughafen (Frankfurt am Main) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 364 ft / 111 m | ||||||||||||||||||
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Frankfurt am Main Airport (IATA: FRA, ICAO: EDDF), known in German as Flughafen Frankfurt am Main or Rhein-Main-Flughafen is a major international airport located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 12 km (7.5 mi) southwest of the city centre.[2] Run by Fraport, it is by far the busiest airport by passenger traffic in Germany, the third busiest in Europe and the ninth busiest worldwide in 2009. It serves the most international destinations in the world[citation needed] and is the second busiest airport in Europe by cargo traffic. The southern side of the airport, Rhein-Main Air Base, was a major airlift base for the United States from 1947 until late 2005, when it was acquired by Fraport.
The airport is directly located in the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region, Germany's second largest metropolitan region, which itself has a central location in the densely populated region of the west-central European megalopolis. Thereby, along with a strong rail and motorway connection, the airport serves as a major transportation hub to the greater region, less than two hours by ground to Cologne, the Ruhr Area, and Stuttgart.
Plans are underway to expand Frankfurt Airport with a fourth runway and a new Terminal 3. First modifications to the airport to make it Airbus A380 compatible are completed, including the first building of a large A380 maintenance facility near the former U.S. Air Base. Work on the fourth runway has been delayed several times due to environmental concerns, but received zoning approval in December 2007. The runway should go into operation in 2011.
Frankfurt is a hub of Lufthansa, the German national carrier. Lufthansa's secondary hub is Munich Airport where many key medium and long haul routes are available, lessening the need to overburden Frankfurt Airport.
The airport is currently ranked as a 4-star by Skytrax along with Zurich, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing and Amsterdam.
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.
Plans for a new airport in the south of Frankfurt existed since before 1930, but they were not realized due to the Great Depression. After 1933 the plans were revived by the Nazi regime and they started the construction of the airport. Initially the airport was the main base for the airships LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin and LZ 129 Hindenburg, but regular flights were discontinued after the Hindenburg disaster in 1937.
World War II
During World War II the airport saw military use. Female prisoners from Walldorf concentration camp were forced to work for the airport. The camp was near the airport and existed from August to November 1944.
After the war, it served as the main West German operations base for the United States Air Force's contribution to the Berlin Airlift. Since the main runway deteriorated due to the heavy use, a second runway was constructed during this time. Lufthansa recommenced their flights from Frankfurt in 1955, when Germany regained sovereignty after the war.
Expansion
The airport did not emerge as a major international hub until 1958, when its new passenger terminal (now Terminal 1) opened. The runways were extended to 3,000 meters in 1957 and again to 3,900 meters in the following years. In 1962, it was decided to build an even larger terminal building (Terminal Mitte), with capacity for 30 million passengers annually. Construction of this terminal began in 1965, and it was opened to the public on 14 March 1972. Along with the new terminal, the Frankfurt Airport Regional station opened, making it the first airport train station to open in the then Federal Republic of Germany.
Planning for a new runway (18 West) began in 1973. Residents and environmentalists protested against the project. While the protests and related lawsuits were unsuccessful in preventing the construction of the runway, the "Startbahn West" protests were one of the major crystallization points for the German environmentalist movement of the 1980s. The protests even continued after the runway opened in 1984.[4]
Work on a new terminal building began in 1990; Terminal 2 opened in 1994. Frankfurt Airport long-distance station (Frankfurt Flughafen Fernbahnhof) was inaugurated in 1999. It is primarily used by long-distance InterCityExpress trains, while regional/commuter trains (S-Bahn) continue to use the nearby underground regional station.
US Air Force Rhein-Main Air Base was closed in 2005 and the property passed to Frankfurt airport.
Future expansion
A new runway, located just to the northwest in the Kelsterbach Forest, is currently under construction, and is expected open in October 2011. The runway will be 2,800 meters (9,240 feet) long and be primarily used for landings. The center line separation from the existing north runway will be about 1,400 meters (4,620 feet). This will allow for simultaneous instrument landing system (ILS) operations on these two runways, which has not been possible on the existing parallel runways because they do not meet the 3,500 foot requirement for ILS operations.[5] This will enable the airport to increase its capacity from the current 83 to 126 aircraft movements per hour.[6][7]
Terminal 1B is undergoing renovation and construction of gates able to handle the Airbus A380. A new pier, A-Plus, is also under construction for future Airbus A380 operations. The pier will operate flights to non-Schengen destinations.
Fraport plans to build a vast new terminal south of the existing terminals at the old Rhein-Main Air Base. The new terminal will be called "Terminal 3" and will feature 75 new aircraft positions. It will be connected to the Sky Line shuttle train system.
"The Squaire" (formerly known as "Airrail Center") is currently under construction and will open in 2011. It is located directly over the long-distance train station, with a length of 660 meters (2,165 feet) and a width of 65 meters (213 feet). It will feature a substantial amount of office space as well as two hotels (Hilton and Hilton Garden Inn) and retail space. It will also include parking for 600 vehicles.
Terminals, airlines, and destinations
Frankfurt Airport has several structures for passenger, cargo and general aviation operations.
Terminals
There are two passenger terminals at the airport: Terminal 1 is divided into concourses A, B and C and Terminal 2 is divided into concourses D and E. Lufthansa also maintains a dedicated terminal for use by their First Class passengers.
Terminal 1
Terminal 1 opened on 14 March 1972, and was called Terminal Mitte (Central Terminal) since it was located between two runways, and between the original terminal in the east and the cargo area in the west. It was designed in a modern style for the period, with polished silver interiors and corrugated walls.
The terminal is functionally divided into three levels, the departure level in the upper deck with check-in counters, the arrival level with´baggage claim areas at ground level and, underneath, a distribution level with access to the (regional) train station and underground and multilevel parking. Departure and arrivals levels each have separate street approaches. A bus station is located at arrivals level. Parallel to the terminal, on the other side of the street, are a hotel and an office building ("FAC" = Frankfurt Airport Centre). The three-level underground parking garages are beneath those buildings. The tracks of the train station run between the terminal itself and the range of office and hotel buildings.
The landside of Terminal 1 is 420 meters long. Horizontally, it is divided into three areas called A, B and C. It is divided into three concourses. Lufthansa and its Star Alliance partners currently dominate Terminal 1.
A satellite view of Terminal 1 shows it to have 54 gates equipped with jetways (25 in area A, 18 in area B, 11 in area C). Frankfurt Airport's official website shows a total of 103 gates (a figure which includes "stand" gates, which are gates with no jetways).
Terminal 2
Terminal 2 was opened in 1994 containing gate areas D and E. It is to the east of Terminal 1. A continuous concourse between 1C and 2D provides direct access between the two terminals. Terminal 2 has eight gates with jetways and 34 stands, a total of 42 gates.
Lufthansa First Class Terminal
Lufthansa has a separate First Class Terminal at Frankfurt Airport (50.049166 N,8.565856 E) for the use of its first class passengers. The terminal can only be used by passengers flying Lufthansa First Class or Lufthansa's Miles & More HON Circle members. They also must be departing on a flight operated by Air Dolomiti, Austrian Airlines Group, Lufthansa, Lufthansa Regional or SWISS. Passengers flying other Star Alliance partners in First Class do not have access to the First Class Terminal. The terminal has 200 staff and is used by about 300 passengers daily. It provides individualised security screening and customs facilities, valet parking, a white-linen restaurant, a cigar room and bubble baths. Passengers clear exit immigration controls in the terminal and then are driven from the terminal directly to their aircraft by a chaffeured Mercedes-Benz S-Class or Porsche Panamera. The commercial success of the FCT at Frankfurt has led Lufthansa to plan the opening of a similar facility at Munich Airport.[8]
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations | Terminal/ Concourse |
|---|---|---|
| Adria Airways | Ljubljana, Pristina, Vienna | 1A |
| Aegean Airlines | Athens, Thessaloniki | 1B |
| Aer Lingus | Dublin | 2D |
| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo | 2E |
| Air Algérie | Algiers, Oran [ends 19 September] | 1B |
| Air Astana | Astana | 2E |
| Air Berlin | Alicante, Antalya, Berlin-Tegel, Catania, Fuerteventura, Hamburg, Hurghada, Naples, Palma de Mallorca, Seasonal: Corfu, Ibiza, Kavala, Lamezia Terme, Olbia, Rhodes, Samos, Thessaloniki, Westerland/Sylt, Zakynthos | 2E |
| Air Canada | Calgary, Montréal-Trudeau, Ottawa, Toronto-Pearson | 1C |
| Air China | Beijing-Capital, Shanghai-Pudong | 1B |
| Air France | Paris-Charles de Gaulle | 2D |
| Air India | Delhi | 1B |
| Air Malta | Catania, Malta | 1C |
| Air Mauritius | Mauritius | 2D |
| Air Moldova | Chişinău | 1B |
| Air Namibia | Windhoek | 2D |
| Air Transat | Seasonal: Calgary, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver | 2D |
| Air VIA | Seasonal: Burgas, Varna | 2D |
| airBaltic | Riga | 2E |
| Albanian Airlines | Tirana | 2E |
| Alitalia | Milan-Linate, Rome-Fiumicino | 2D |
| Alitalia operated by Air One | Rome-Fiumicino | 2D |
| All Nippon Airways | Tokyo-Narita | 1B |
| American Airlines | Dallas/Fort Worth | 2E |
| Ariana Afghan Airlines | Kabul | 2E |
| Asiana Airlines | Seoul-Incheon | 1B |
| Austrian Airlines | Vienna | 1A |
| Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways | Salzburg, Vienna | 1A |
| AVE.com | Baghdad | 2E |
| Belavia | Minsk | 2D |
| British Airways | London-Heathrow | 2E |
| British Airways operated by BA CityFlyer | London-City | 2E |
| Bulgaria Air | Sofia | 1C |
| Bulgarian Air Charter | Seasonal: Burgas, Varna | 2D |
| Cathay Pacific | Hong Kong | 2E |
| China Airlines | Taipei-Taoyuan | 2D |
| China Eastern Airlines | Shanghai-Pudong | 2D |
| Cirrus Airlines | Hof/Plauen | 1A |
| Condor Flugdienst | Agadir, Antalya, Arrecife, Banjul [begins 1 November], Barbados, Cancún, Dalaman, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Havana, Holguín, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Kilimanjaro, Larnaca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Vegas, Málaga, Mahé, Malé, Marsa Alam, Mauritius, Mombasa, Montego Bay, Palma de Mallorca, Panama City, Paphos, Porlamar, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Recife, Saint Lucia, Salvador da Bahia, San José de Costa Rica, San Juan [resumes 21 December], Santa Cruz de la Palma, Santo Domingo, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tenerife-South, Varadero, Zanzibar Seasonal: Anchorage, Antigua, Burgas, Calgary, Chania, Colombo, Corfu, Djerba, Dubai [begins 4 November], Fairbanks, Goa, Fort Lauderdale, Halifax, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos, La Romana, Luxor, Phuket, Rhodes, Santorini, Seattle/Tacoma, Tobago, Vancouver, Whitehorse | 1C |
| Continental Airlines | Houston-Intercontinental, Newark | 1B |
| Croatia Airlines | Dubrovnik, Split, Zagreb | 1A |
| Cyprus Airways | Larnaca | 1B |
| Czech Airlines | Prague | 2D |
| Delta Air Lines | Atlanta, Detroit, New York-JFK | 2D |
| EgyptAir | Cairo | 1B |
| El Al | Tel Aviv | 1C |
| Emirates | Dubai | 2E |
| Ethiopian Airlines | Addis Ababa | 1B |
| Etihad Airways | Abu Dhabi | 2E |
| Finnair | Helsinki | 2E |
| Flybe | Birmingham [ends 24 July], Manchester [ends 24 July], Southampton | 2E |
| Georgian Airways | Tbilisi | 2D |
| Gulf Air | Bahrain | 2D |
| Iberia | Madrid | 2E |
| Icelandair | Reykjavík-Keflavík | 2E |
| Iran Air | Tehran-Imam Khomeini | 1C |
| Japan Airlines | Tokyo-Narita | 2D |
| Jat Airways | Belgrade | 1C |
| KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper | Amsterdam | 2D |
| Korean Air | Seoul-Incheon | 2D |
| Kuwait Airways | Kuwait, Geneva | 1B |
| LAN Airlines | Madrid, Santiago | 2E |
| LOT Polish Airlines | Gdańsk, Kraków, Poznań, Warsaw | 1A |
| LOT Polish Airlines operated by EuroLOT | Poznań, Wrocław | 1A |
| Lufthansa | Abu Dhabi, Abuja, Accra, Addis Ababa, Algiers, Almaty, Amman, Amsterdam, Arbil, Ashgabat, Asmara, Astana, Athens, Atlanta, Bahrain, Baku, Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Belgrade, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Billund, Birmingham (UK), Bogotá, Bologna, Boston, Bremen, Brussels, Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Budapest, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Cairo, Calgary, Caracas, Casablanca, Chennai, Chicago-O'Hare, Copenhagen, Dallas/Fort Worth, Dammam, Delhi, Denver, Detroit, Doha, Dresden, Dubai, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Faro, Geneva, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Graz, Guangzhou, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Houston-Intercontinental, Hyderabad [ends 29 October], Istanbul-Atatürk, Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta [ends 29 October][9], Jeddah, Johannesburg, Kazan, Kiev-Boryspil, Kolkata, Kraków, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lagos, Larnaca, Leipzig/Halle, Linz, Lisbon, London-Gatwick [begins 30 October]Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page)., Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino, Rostock-Laage, Saint Petersburg, Samara, San Francisco, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Seattle/Tacoma, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Tallinn, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Tel Aviv, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson, Toulouse, Tripoli [resumes 1 August], Tunis, Turin, Vancouver, Venice-Marco Polo, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Washington-Dulles, Yekaterinburg, Zagreb, Zürich Seasonal: Cape Town, Trondheim | 1A, 1B, 1C |
| Lufthansa operated by BMI | Birmingham, Manchester | 1A |
| Lufthansa operated by PrivatAir | Khartoum, Libreville, Pointe-Noire, Pune | 1A |
| Lufthansa operated by Tyrolean Airways | Innsbruck | 1A |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti | Turin, Verona | 1A |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine | Aberdeen [begins 30 October], Basel/Mulhouse, Bergen, Billund, Brussels, Florence, Friedrichshafen, Gdańsk, Graz, Katowice, Leipzig/Halle, Linz, London-City, Minsk, Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Rostov-on-Don, Poznań, Rzeszów, Split, Stavanger, Stuttgart, Turin, Wrocław | 1A |
| Luxair | Luxembourg | 1B |
| Malaysia Airlines | Kuala Lumpur | 2D |
| Malév Hungarian Airlines | Budapest | 2E |
| Middle East Airlines | Beirut | 1B |
| Montenegro Airlines | Podgorica | 2D |
| Niki | Vienna | 2E |
| Nouvelair | Monastir | 2E |
| Oman Air | Muscat | 2E |
| Onur Air | Antalya, Dalaman | 2D |
| Ostfriesische Lufttransport | Seasonal: Heringsdorf | 2E |
| Pakistan International Airlines | Islamabad, Lahore | 2D |
| Qantas | Singapore, Sydney | 2E |
| Qatar Airways | Doha | 1B |
| Rossiya | Saint Petersburg | 2D |
| Royal Air Maroc | Casablanca, Nador | 1B |
| Royal Jordanian | Amman-Queen Alia | 2E |
| S7 Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk | 2E |
| Saravia | Seasonal: Saratov | 2E |
| SATA International | Ponta Delgada | 2E |
| Saudi Arabian Airlines | Jeddah, Riyadh | 2D |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Copenhagen, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda | 1A |
| Singapore Airlines | New York-JFK, Singapore | 1C |
| Sky Airlines | Antalya | 2D |
| Somon Air | Dushanbe | 2D |
| South African Airways | Johannesburg | 1B |
| Spanair | Madrid | 1A |
| SriLankan Airlines | Colombo | 2E |
| Sun d'Or opreated by El Al | Tel Aviv | 1C |
| SunExpress | Antalya, İstanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, İzmir | 1B |
| Swiss International Air Lines | Zürich | 1A |
| Swiss International Airlines operated by Swiss European Air Lines | Zürich | 1A |
| Syrianair | Aleppo, Damascus | 2E |
| TAM Airlines | Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, São Paulo-Guarulhos | 1C |
| TAP Portugal | Lisbon | 1A |
| TAROM | Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Cluj-Napoca | 1B |
| Thai Airways International | Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi | 1C |
| Transaero Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo | 2D |
| TUIfly | Boa Vista, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Marsa Alam, Sal, Tenerife-South Seasonal: Agadir, Antalya, Corfu, Dalaman, Enfidha, Faro, Funchal, Heraklion, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Luxor, Mahon/Minorca, Palma de Mallorca, Patras/Araxos, Rhodes | 2D |
| Tunisair | Djerba, Enfidha, Tunis | 1C |
| Turkish Airlines | Ankara, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir | 1B |
| Turkish Airlines operated by AnadoluJet | Ankara | 1B |
| Turkmenistan Airlines | Ashgabat | 2D |
| Ukraine International Airlines | Kiev-Boryspil Seasonal: Simferopol | 2D |
| United Airlines | Chicago-O'Hare, San Francisco, Washington-Dulles | 1B |
| US Airways | Charlotte, Philadelphia | 1C |
| Uzbekistan Airways | Tashkent | 2D |
| Vietnam Airlines | Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City | 2D |
| Viking Hellas | Erbil, Gothenburg, Malmö | 2E |
| VLM Airlines | Guernsey, Jersey | 2D |
| XL Airways Germany | Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Kayseri, Malatya, Marrakech, Samsun | 2D |
| Yemenia | Sana'a | 2E |
Cargo Terminal
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| AeroLogic | Atlanta, Chicago-O'Hare, Hong Kong, Houston, Lahore, Leipzig/Halle |
| Air China Cargo | Beijing-Capital, Dalian,Novosibirsk, Shanghai-Pudong |
| AirBridgeCargo Airlines | Krasnojarsk, Moscow-Sheremetyewo |
| Asiana Cargo | Seoul-Incheon, Gothenburg, Moscow-Domodedovo, Vienna |
| British Airways World Cargo | Atlanta, Bangalore, Chicago-O'Hare, Delhi, Dubai, Hong Kong, London-Stansted |
| Cargo Garuda Indonesia | Jakarta-Soekarno Hatta |
| Cathay Pacific Cargo | Delhi, Dubai, Hong Kong, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Mumbai, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| China Airlines | Abu Dhabi, Taipei-Taoyuan |
| China Southern Airlines | Shanghai-Pudong, Urumqi |
| El Al Cargo | Tel Aviv |
| Emirates SkyCargo | Campinas, Dakar, Dubai, Toledo |
| European Air Transport | London-Heathrow |
| Eva Air Cargo | Dubai, Taipei-Taoyuan |
| FedEx Express | Almaty, Athens, Delhi, Dublin, Hahn, Memphis, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Newark, Osaka-Kansai, Shanghai-Pudong, Tel Aviv, Tokyo-Narita |
| FedEx Feeder operated by Air Contractors | Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Grandstar Cargo | Shanghai-Pudong, Tianjin |
| Iran Air Cargo | Tehran-Mehrabad |
| Jade Cargo International | Barcelona, Kolkata, Lahore, Mumbai, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Vienna |
| Korean Air Cargo | Brussels, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Navoi, Seoul-Incheon, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| LAN Cargo | Amsterdam, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Campinas, Lima, Santiago de Chile |
| Lufthansa Cargo | Aguadilla, Almaty, Amsterdam, Athens, Atlanta, Bahrain, Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Bogota, Brussels, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Cairo, Campinas, Chennai, Chicago-O'Hare, Curitiba, Dakar, Dallas/Fort Worth, Delhi, Dhaka, Gothenburg, Guadalajara, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Karaganda, Kolkata, Krasnoyarsk, Kuwait, Lima, Los Angeles, Malta, Manchester, Mexico City, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Nairobi, New York-JFK, Nottingham East-Midlands, Osaka-Kansai, Quito, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Riyadh, Seattle/Tacoma, Shanghai-Pudong, Shannon, Sharjah, Shenzhen, Tashkent, Tianjin, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson |
| MASkargo | Amsterdam, Colombo, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Tashkent |
| Night Express | Coventry |
| Qatar Airways Cargo | Doha |
| Thai Airways International | Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Dubai, Hong Kong |
| Turkish Airlines Cargo | Istanbul-Atatürk |
Other features and amenities
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Frankfurt has two cargo terminals, North and South, as well as a separate General Aviation Terminal on the south side of the airport. A Sheraton hotel is adjacent to Terminal 1. Terminal 1 also has a full-service German Post Office and a DHL office open to the public.[citation needed]
Fraport's facilities are on the property of Frankfurt Airport.[10] Its head office building is by Gate 3.[11] As of 2010 Fraport's new headquarters, located by Gate 3, are under construction.[12] The building is scheduled to open in 2012.[13] The Fraport Driving School (Fraport Fahrschule) is in Building 501 of CargoCity South (CargoCity Süd).[14][15]
Lufthansa Cargo is headquartered in Building 451 of the Frankfurt Airport area.[16] Lufthansa operates the Lufthansa Aviation Center (LAC) at Frankfurt Airport.[17] Several company departments, including Corporate Communications,[18] Investor Relations,[19] and Media Relations,[20] are based out of the LAC.
Airmail Center Frankfurt, a joint venture of Lufthansa Cargo, Fraport, and Deutsche Post, has its head office in Building 189, between Terminals 1 and 2.[21]
Access
Public transport
There are two railway stations at Frankfurt Airport: one for suburban/regional trains and one for long distance trains.
Frankfurt Airport Regional station at Terminal 1 provides access to the S-Bahn commuter rail lines S8 and S9 which depart every 15 minutes during the day to Wiesbaden in the west via Rüsselsheim and Mainz and to Hanau in the east via Frankfurt Central Station, Frankfurt city centre and Offenbach am Main. The journey time to Frankfurt Central Station is 11 minutes, to the city centre (Hauptwache) 15 minutes. The first S-Bahn trains arrive at 4:28h from Frankfurt and Hanau, and at 4:29h from Mainz and Wiesbaden; the last ones depart at 1:32h to Frankfurt, at 0:29h to Wiesbaden and at 0:59h to Rüsselsheim.
Regional-Express trains to other destinations like Saarbrücken in the west, Koblenz in the Rhine valley to the north, or Würzburg in the east also call at the Regional Railway Station, as do some long distance trains, especially at night when the Long Distance Railway Station is closed.
Frankfurt Airport long-distance station was opened in 1999. It is the end point of the newly-built Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line, which links southern Germany to the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area, the Netherlands and Belgium via Cologne at speeds up to 300 km/h (190 mph). All ICE trains between Cologne and southern Germany stop at Frankfurt Airport, taking slightly less than an hour from Cologne. About 10 trains per hour depart in all directions.
The station is squeezed in between the A3 and the four-lane Bundesstraße B43, linked to Terminal 1 by a building that bridges the Autobahn. Railway passengers can check in right at the train station for about 60 airlines.
Deutsche Bahn operates the AIRail Service in conjunction with Lufthansa, American Airlines and Emirates. The service operates to the central stations of Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Hamburg, Hannover, Mannheim, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart and to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe.
Various transport companies provide bus services to the airport.
Car and taxi
Frankfurt Airport is located in the Frankfurt City Forest and directly connected to an Autobahn intersection called Frankfurter Kreuz where the A3 and A5 meet. It takes a 10–15 minutes by car or taxi to get to Frankfurt Central Station or the city centre.
Passengers driving their owns cars can park in multilevel parking garages (mostly underground) along the terminals. A long term holiday parking lot is located south of the runways and connected by shuttle bus to the terminals.
Ground transportation statistics
In 2006, 29.5% of the 12,299,192 passengers whose air travel originated in Frankfurt came by private car, 27.9% came by rail, 20.4% by taxi, 11.1% parked their car at the airport for the duration of their trip, 5.3% came by bus, and 4.6% arrived with a rental car.[22]
Incidents and accidents
On 22 May 1983 during an Air show at Rhein-Main Air Base, a Canadian RCAF Lockheed F-104 Starfighter crashed into a nearby road, hitting a car and killing all passengers, a vicar's family of five. The pilot was able to eject.
In 1988 the first leg of Pan Am Flight 103 (a Boeing 727) took off from Frankfurt. About half of the passengers and baggage were from other flights and had changed planes to Flight 103 (a Boeing 747) at Heathrow Airport to continue to New York. A bomb exploded on the aircraft above the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all the passengers on board. The bomb is believed to have been planted by Libyan terrorists.
In September 2007, German authorities arrested three suspected Islamic terrorists for plotting a "massive" terror attack, which posed "an imminent threat" to Frankfurt Airport and the US Air Force base in Ramstein.[23]
On 2 March 2011, a gunman opened fire on a bus carrying US Air Force personnel at Frankfurt Airport, killing two and wounding two others.[24]
Traffic and statistics
In 2009, Frankfurt Airport was the third busiest airport in Europe in terms of total passenger traffic, but it was second behind Charles de Gaulle in terms of plane movements and cargo traffic.
See also
References
- ^ ADV passenger statistics and aircraft movements
- ^ a b EAD Basic
- ^ Figures
- ^ hr-online: Startbahn West Chronik
- ^ http://www.ausbau.fraport.com/cms/default/rubrik/2/2227.htm
- ^ Bloomberg.com - Air Berlin Urged to Switch Focus to FRA
- ^ Groundbreaking Ceremony for Frankfurt Airport’s Runway Northwest
- ^ "A Bubble Bath and a Glass Of Bubbly — at the Airport," Wall Street Journal, July 10, 2007.[1]
- ^ http://presse.lufthansa.com/en/news-releases/singleview/archive/2011/may/20/article/1934.html
- ^ "How to find us." Fraport. Retrieved on May 28, 2011.
- ^ "Offering of 22,700,000 Ordinary Bearer Shares of Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide." Fraport. H-4. Retrieved on May 28, 2011. "REGISTERED AND HEAD OFFICE OF THE COMPANY Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide Flughafen Tor 3 60547 Frankfurt am Main Germany"
- ^ "Quality breeds Success." Fraport. Retrieved on May 28, 2011.
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- ^ "Fraport Fahrschule So finden Sie uns." Fraport. Retrieved on May 28, 2011.
- ^ "Imprint." Lufthansa Cargo. Retrieved on 28 May 2011. "Lufthansa Cargo AG Flughafenbereich West Tor 25, Gebäude 451 D-60546 Frankfurt am Main"
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- ^ "Service Contact Person." Lufthansa. Retrieved on February 15, 2010.
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- ^ Statistical data prepared by Fraport department MVG-MF based on polls conducted in the departure lounges every four days
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