Frankfurt Airport

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Frankfurt Airport
Flughafen Frankfurt am Main

IATA: FRA

ICAO: EDDF

Summary

Airport type Public

Owner/Operator Fraport

Serves Frankfurt, Germany

Hub for AeroLogic

Condor

Lufthansa

Lufthansa CityLine

Lufthansa Cargo

Focus city for SunExpress Deutschland

TUIfly

Elevation AMSL 364 ft / 111 m

Coordinates 500200N 0083414ECoordinates:

500200N 0083414E

Website frankfurt-airport.com

Map

FRA

Location within Germany

Runways

Direction Length Surface

m ft
07R/25L 4,000 13,123 Asphalt
07C/25C 4,000 13,123 Asphalt
18A 4,000 13,123 Concrete
07L/25RB 2,800 9,240 Concrete

Statistics (2016)

Passengers 60,792,308 0.4%

Cargo (t) 2,150,000 2.6%

Aircraft movements 462,885 0.3%

Economic impact $22.3 billion[1]

Sources: Fraport,[2] AIP at EUROCONTROL[3]

A:^ used for take-offs in one direction only[4]

B: ^ used for landings 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 Condorand 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, ParisCharles de Gaulle Airport and Amsterdam
Airport Schiphol. The airport is also the 12th busiest worldwide by total number of passengers in
2015,[5] 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.[6]
The southern side of the airport ground was home to the Rhein-Main Air Base, which was a major air
base for the United States from 1947 until 2005, when the air base was closed and the property was
acquired by Fraport. In 2016 passengers at the airport fell 0.4% to 60,792,308 down from 61.032
million in 2015.

Contents
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1Location
2History
o 2.1First airport
o 2.2Second airport
2.2.1World War II
2.2.2Berlin Airlift
2.2.3Growth of the airport
2.2.4The new main terminal
2.2.5The third runway
2.2.6Terminal 2 and the second railway station
2.2.7Closure of the Rhein-Main Air Base
2.2.8The Airbus A380 and The Squaire
2.2.9The fourth runway
2.2.10Developments since 2011
3Facilities
o 3.1Terminals
3.1.1Terminal 1
3.1.2Terminal 2
3.1.3Lufthansa First Class Terminal
o 3.2Runways
o 3.3Future expansions
3.3.1Terminal 3 (under construction)
4Passenger airlines and destinations
5Cargo airlines and destinations
o 5.1CargoCity
6Other facilities
o 6.1Airport City
6.1.1Frankfurt Airport Centres
 6.1.2Airport City Mall
6.1.3The Squaire
6.1.4Main Airport Centre
6.1.5Sheraton Hotel & Conference Centre
6.1.6Gateway Gardens
o 6.2Further users
7Statistics
o 7.1Passenger numbers
o 7.2Route statistics
8Ground transport
o 8.1Rail
8.1.1Regional station
8.1.2Long-distance station
o 8.2Car
o 8.3Bus and coaches
o 8.4Ground transport statistics
9Incidents and accidents
10In media
11See also
12References
13External links

Location[edit]
Frankfurt Airport lies 12 km (7.5 mi) southwest of central Frankfurt,[3] near
the Autobahn intersection Frankfurter Kreuz, where two of the most heavily used motorways in
Europe (A3 and A5) meet. The airport grounds, which form a city district of Frankfurt
named Frankfurt-Flughafen, are surrounded by the Frankfurt City Forest. The southern portion of the
airport grounds extend partially into the cities of Rsselsheim am Main and Mrfelden-Walldorf, and
a western portion of the grounds lie within the city of Kelsterbach.
The airport is centrally located in the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region, Germany's third-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 transport for the greater region, less than two hours by ground to Cologne,
the Ruhr Area, and Stuttgart.

History[edit]
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The base opened as a German commercial airport in 1936, with the northern part of base used as a
field for fixed-wing aircraft and the extreme southern part near Zeppelinheimserving as a base for
rigid airships. That section of Rhein-Main later became the base for the Graf Zeppelin, its sister
ship LZ-130, and, until 6 May 1937, for the ill-fatedHindenburg.
The airships were dismantled and their huge hangars demolished on 6 May 1940 during conversion
of the base to military use. Luftwaffe engineers subsequently extended the single runway and
erected hangars and other facilities for German military aircraft. During World War II the Luftwaffe
used the field sporadically as a fighter base and as an experimental station for jet aircraft.
First airport[edit]
On 16 November 1909, the world's first airline was founded in Frankfurt am Main: The Deutsche
Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft (DELAG). DELAG then built the first airport in Frankfurt,
called Airship Base at Rebstock, which was located in Bockenheim in the western part of the city
and was primarily used for airships in the beginning. It opened in 1912 and was extended
after World War I, but in 1924 an expert's report already questioned the possibility of further
expansions at this location.
With the foundation of Deutsche Luft Hansa in 1926 a rapid boom of civilian air travel started and
soon the airship base became too small to handle the demand. Plans for a new and larger airport
located in the Frankfurt City Forest south-west of Schwanheim were approved in 1930, but were not
realised due to the Great Depression. After theMachtergreifung in 1933 the government revived the
plans and started the construction of the new airport.
Second airport[edit]

Frankfurt Airport in 1936, with several Ju 52/3m and Fw 200 of Deutsche Luft Hansa

On the northern part of the airport originated in 1935 a two-storey station building with a six-storey
tower, and other operating and outbuildings for maintenance and storage of aircraft. The
approximately 100 hectares runway received a grass cover.
The official opening of the new Flug- und Luftschiffhafen Rhein-Main took place on July 8, 1936. The
first plane that landed was a Ju 52/3m, Six days later, on 14 July 1936 LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin landed
at the airport. 1936 800 tons of cargo and 58,000 passengers were transported, in 1937 70,000
passengers and 966 tons of cargo. In the coming years, the new airport was home base of the two
largest German airships LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin and LZ 129 Hindenburg . In 1938 Frankfurt was a
central distribution point for the transport of airmail to North America.
On May 6, 1937, it came to a serious accident: The Hindenburg , on the way from Frankfurt to New
York, exploded shortly before application in the landing area of Lakehurst, 36 people died. The
accident marked the end of the regular air shipping traffic and the end of the era of airships.
World War II[edit]
After the beginning of World War II in 1939 all foreign airlines left the airport and control of air traffic
was transferred to the Luftwaffe. On 9 May 1940, the first bombers took off to attack France. From
August to November 1944 a concentration camp was established in Walldorf, close to the airport
site, where Jewish female prisoners were forced to work for the airport. The Allies of World War
II destroyed the runway system with airstrikes in 1944 and the Wehrmacht blew up buildings and fuel
depots in 1945, shortly before the US Army took control of the airport on 25 March 1945. After
the German Instrument of Surrender the war in Europe ended and the US Army started to build a
new temporary runway at Frankfurt Airport. The southern part of the airport ground was occupied to
build the Rhein-Main Air Base as an Air Force Base for the United States Air Forces in Europe.
Berlin Airlift[edit]
Rhein-Main Air Base during theBerlin Airlift

In 1948 the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' rail and road access to the sectors of West
Berlin under Allied control. Their aim was to force the western powers to allow the Soviet zone to
start supplying Berlin with food and fuel, thereby giving the Soviets practical control over the entire
city. In response, the Western Allies organised the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies via air to the people
in West Berlin. The airports in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Hannover were the primary bases for Allied
aircraft. The heavy use of these so-called "Raisin Bombers" caused damage to the runway in
Frankfurt and forced the US Army to build a second parallel runway. The airlift ended in September
1949 after the Soviet Union ended their blockade.
Growth of the airport[edit]

Civil air traffic at Frankfurt Airport in 1951

An Iran Air Boeing 707320B at Frankfurt Airport in 1970

In 1951 restrictions for German air travellers were lifted and civil air traffic started to grow again. In
1952 Frankfurt Airport handled more than 400,000 passengers; a year later it was more than half a
million. About 100 to 120 aeroplanes took off from and landed in Frankfurt daily. In
1955, Lufthansa resumed flights to and from Frankfurt and in the same year the Federal Republic of
Germany gained its air sovereignty back from the Allies. In 1957 the northern runway was extended,
first to 3,000 m (9,843 ft) and then to 3,900 m (12,795 ft), to make it compatible with jet aircraft.
The airport did not emerge as a major international airline hub until 1958 when a new passenger
terminal called Empfangsanlage Ost(Terminal East, literally "Arrival Facility East") opened in the
north-east corner of the airport site. Only four years later it was clear that the terminal was already
too small for the demand. In 1961 Frankfurt already had 2.2 million passengers and 81,000 take-offs
and landings, making it the second busiest airport in Europe behind London Heathrow Airport.
In 1962 it was decided to build an even larger terminal with a capacity of 30 million passengers per
year. Work on this terminal began in 1965. The southern runway was extended to 3,750 m
(12,303 ft) in 1964. In 1970 a new hangar was inaugurated; this accommodated six jet aircraft and
was the world's largest hangar at the time.
The new main terminal[edit]

Check-in concourse A in Terminal 1

The new terminal, called Terminal Mitte (Central Terminal, today known as Terminal 1) is divided
into three concourses (A, B and C) with 56 gates and an electric baggage handling system.
Everything opened to the public on 14 March 1972. It was assumed that the terminal capacity would
be sufficient for the next 30 years. Along with the new terminal a railway station (Frankfurt Airport
station) was opened, the first airport railway station in the Federal Republic of Germany. A few days
later the old Empfangsanlage Ost was closed.
The third runway[edit]
Planning for a third runway (called Startbahn 18 West) began in 1973. This project spawned
massive protests by residents and environmentalists. The main points of conflict were increasing
noise and pollution and the cutting down of protected trees in the Frankfurt City Forest. While the
protests and related lawsuits were unsuccessful in preventing the construction of the runway,
the Startbahn Westprotests were one of the major crystallisation points for the
German environmental movement of the 1980s. The protests even continued after the runway had
been opened in 1984 and in 1987 two police officers were killed by a gunman. This incident ended
the Startbahn West protests for good. Because of its orientation in the northsouth direction, in
contrast to the other two runways which run eastwest, the use of the third runway is limited. The
Startbahn West can only be used for takeoffs to the south because otherwise they would interfere
with air traffic at the other runways. Due to this restriction the runway must be partially or fully closed
when northward winds are too strong.
Terminal 2 and the second railway station[edit]
The apron of Terminal 2

In 1990, work on a new terminal (Terminal 2) began because it was anticipated that Terminal
Mitte would reach its capacity limit sooner than expected. The new terminal, divided into concourses
D and E, was built to the east of the existing terminal where once theEmpfangsanlage Ost had been.
With its opening in 1994, Frankfurt Airport increased its terminal capacity to 54 million passengers
per year. Along with the terminal opening, a people mover system called Sky Line was established
to provide a fast connection betweenTerminal 2 and Terminal Mitte (now renamed Terminal 1).
In 1999 a second railway station, primarily for InterCityExpress long-distance trains (called Frankfurt
Airport long-distance station), opened near Terminal 1 as part of the new CologneFrankfurt high-
speed rail line. At the same time local and regional rail services were based at the existing
underground station, now renamed Frankfurt Airport regional station.
Closure of the Rhein-Main Air Base[edit]
On 30 December 2005, the Rhein-Main Air Base in the southern part of the airport ground was
closed and the US Air Force moved toRamstein Air Base. The property was handed back to Fraport
which allows the airport to use it to build a new passenger terminal. The property of the housing area
for the soldiers, called Gateway Gardens, which was located north-east of the airport site, was given
back to the city of Frankfurt in the same year and will be developed as a business district in the
following years.
The Airbus A380 and The Squaire[edit]
From 2005 to 2007 a large Airbus A380 maintenance facility was built at Frankfurt Airport because
Lufthansa wanted to station their future A380 aircraft fleet there. Due to economic constraints only
half of the facility has been built so far. Both terminals also underwent major renovations in order to
handle the A380, including the installation of a third boarding bridge at several gates. Lufthansa's
first Airbus A380 went into operation in June 2010 and was named Frankfurt am Main.

Aerial view of the central airport buildings including The Squaire in the back

In 2011 a large office building called The Squaire (a portmanteau of square and air) opened at
Frankfurt Airport. It was built on top of the Airport long-distance station and is considered the largest
office building in Germany with 140,000 m2 (1,500,000 sq ft) floor area. Main tenants are KPMG and
two Hilton Hotels.
Since 2012 the people mover "The Squaire Metro" connects the Squaire with the nine-story parking
structure. On a length of about 300 meters the so-called MiniMetro system with its two cabins can
carry up to 1,300 passengers per hour.[7] The constructor of the system was the
Italian manufacturer Leitner.
The fourth runway[edit]
Plans to build a fourth runway at Frankfurt Airport had been under-way since 1997 but, due to the
violent conflicts with the building of the third runway, Fraport let residents' groups and
environmentalists participate in the process to find a mutually acceptable solution. In 2000, a task
force presented their conclusion which generally approved a new runway, but in shorter length (only
2.8 kilometres compared to the other three 4-kilometre-long runways) which would serve as a
landing-only runway for smaller aircraft. Additional requirements included improved noise protection
arrangements and a strict ban on night flights between 11 pm and 5 am across the whole airport. In
2001, Fraport applied for an approval to build a new runway, with three possible variants assessed.
This concluded that a runway north-west of the airport site would have the least impact on local
residents and the surrounding environment. The plans were approved by the Hessian government in
December 2007, but the requested ban on night flights was lifted because it was argued that an
international airport like Frankfurt would need night flights, especially for worldwide freight transport.
Construction of the new 2,800 m (9,186 ft) long Runway Northwest in the Kelsterbach Forest began
in early 2009.
Developments since 2011[edit]
The new runway officially went into operation on 20 October 2011, with an aircraft
carrying Chancellor Angela Merkel performing the first landing on 21 October. The centre line
separation from the existing north runway is about 1,400 m (4,593 ft). This allows simultaneous
instrument landing system (ILS) operations on these two runways, which has not been possible on
the other parallel runways, which do not meet the 3,500-foot minimum separation for ILS
operations.[8] This allowed the airport to increase its capacity from 83 to 126 aircraft movements per
hour.[9][10]
On 11 October 2011, the Hessian Administration Court ruled that night flights between 11pm and
5am (the so-called Mediationsnacht) are no longer allowed at Frankfurt Airport after the inauguration
of the new runway, and therefore over-rode the approval from the Hessian government from 2007
which allowed 17 scheduled flights per night. On 4 April 2012 the German Administrative Court
confirmed the decision of the Hessian Administration Court, banning night flights between 11pm and
5am.[11]
To handle the predicted passenger amount of about 90 million in 2020, a new terminal section
adjacent to Terminal 1 for an additional six million passengers opened on 10 October 2012. It is
called Flugsteig A-Plus and exclusively used by Lufthansa mainly for their long-haul flights. Flugsteig
A-Plus features eight parking positions and is able to handle four Airbus A380 or seven Boeing
747 at once.[12]
In November 2016, Ryanair announced to open a new base at Frankfurt Airport starting four routes
to Spain and Portugal. This sparked severe criticism especially from Lufthansa, as Ryanair was
granted high discounts and incentives regarding the airport's fees.[13] On 28 February 2017 Ryanair
announced its winter progamme for Frankfurt which will see a further 20 new routes been added
which are Athens, Barcelona, Brindisi, Catania, Glasgow, Gran Canaria, Krakow, Lanzarote, Lisbon,
Madrid, Milan, Pisa, Porto, Seville, Tenerife, Toulouse, Valencia and Venice London Stansted,
Madrid and Milan and Manchester from Winter 2017.

Facilities[edit]
Terminals[edit]
Frankfurt Airport has two large main passenger terminals (1 and 2) and a much smaller dedicated
First Class Terminal which is operated and exclusively used by Lufthansa. As is the case at
London's Heathrow Airport, terminal operations are grouped for airlines and airline alliances rather
than into domestic and international routes.
Terminal 1[edit]

Terminal 1

Terminal 1 is the older and larger one of the two passenger terminals. The landside is 420 metres
long. It has been enlarged several times and is divided into concourses A, B, C and Z and has a
capacity of approximately 50 million passengers per year. Terminal 1 is functionally divided into
three levels, the departures level on the upper floor with check-in counters, the arrivals level with
baggage claim areas on the ground floor and, underneath, a distribution floor with access to
the regional station and underground and multilevel parking. Departures and arrivals levels each
have separate street approaches. A bus station is located at arrivals level. Terminal 1 has a total of
103 gates, which include 54 gates equipped with jetways (25 in Concourse A, 18 in Concourse B, 11
in Concourse C).
Pier A was extended by 500 metres in 2000, and a link between Terminal 1 and Terminal 2, as well
as the Hall C extension opened in 2008.[14]
On 10 October 2012, an 800-metre-long westward expansion of Terminal 1 called Pier A-Plus went
into operation. It provides more stands for wide-body aircraft like the Airbus A380.[15]
Terminal 1 is primarily used by Lufthansa, its associated companies (Brussels
Airlines, Eurowings, Swiss International Air Lines and Austrian Airlines) and its Star Alliance partners
(e.g. Aegean Airlines, Air Canada, Air China, Air India, All Nippon Airways, Croatia
Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, TAP Portugal, Thai
Airways, Turkish Airlines and United Airlines).
Terminal 2[edit]

Terminal 2

Terminal 2, which has a capacity of 15 million passengers a year, was opened in 1994 and is divided
into concourses D and E. A continuous concourse between Terminal 1C and 2D provides direct, but
non-public access between the two terminals. It has eight gates with jetways and 34 apron stands, a
total of 42 gates and is able to handle wide-body aircraft such as Korean Air's Airbus A380s.
Terminal 2 is primarily used by airlines of the oneworld (e.g. Air Berlin, American Airlines, British
Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia,Japan Airlines, LAN Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Royal
Jordanian and S7 Airlines) and SkyTeam alliances (e.g. Aeroflot, Air France, Alitalia,China
Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, Czech Airlines, Delta Air Lines, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Korean
Air, Saudia, TAROM and Vietnam Airlines).
Passengers and visitors can change terminals with the people mover system SkyLine which has
stops at Terminal 1 AZ (passengers only),Terminal 1 BC and Terminal 2 DE. The travel time
between the terminals is 2 minutes with trains arriving every 23 minutes during the day. Additionally
there is regular bus service between the terminals.
Lufthansa First Class Terminal[edit]

Lufthansa First Class Terminal

Lufthansa operates a small dedicated First Class Terminal near Terminal 1 with exclusive access for
Lufthansa first class passengers and HON Circle frequent flyer members only. Other first class
passengers must use the dedicated first class lounges within the main terminals. The facility has 200
staff and is used by about 300 passengers daily. It provides individualised security screening and
customs facilities. Amenities include valet parking, a white-linen restaurant, lounge and office areas,
a cigar room and bubble baths. Passengers are transported directly from the terminal to the plane by
luxury car.
Runways[edit]
Frankfurt Airport has four runways of which three are arranged parallel in eastwest direction and
one in northsouth direction. In 2010 three runways (Runways North, South and West) handled
464,432 aircraft movements, which equated to 83 movements per hour. With the start of operation of
the Northwest Runway in October 2011 the airport was predicted to be able to handle 126
movements per hour. It is predicted that aircraft movements will increase up to 700,000 in the year
2020. By using the fourth runway, Frankfurt Airport is able for the first time to handle simultaneous
parallel landings, because the distance between the north and the north-west runways is 1,400 m
(4,593 ft). Simultaneous parallel landings were not possible with the north and south runway pairing,
because the separation distance did not meet the safety standard prescribed by the International
Civil Aviation Organization.

Length in Start of
Direction/name Surface Arrangement Use
m / ft operation

4000 60 /
07C/25C (Runway Take-offs (landings
13,123 Asphalt East-west 1936
North) allowed)
197
 4000 45 /
07R/25L (Runway
13,123 Asphalt East-west 1949 Take-offs and landings
South)
148

4000 45 /
Take-offs in southbound
18 (Runway West) 13,123 Concrete North-south 1984
direction only
148

Landings only (not

07L/25R (Runway 2800 45 / allowed for Airbus
Concrete East-west 2011
Northwest) 9,240 148 A380, Boeing 747, MD-
11)

During normal operation the two outer parallel runways (07L/25R and 07R/25L) are used for
landings and the central parallel runway (07C/25C) and the Runway West (18) for take-offs. The
three parallel runways have two markings because they can be operated in two directions while the
Runway West can only be used in one direction.
Future expansions[edit]

Airport map with planned and already constructed expansions

Terminal 3 (under construction)[edit]

In 2009, the German government decided to create third terminals for both Frankfurt Airport
and Munich Airport, in order to handle expected passenger flows of 90 million in Frankfurt by 2020
and 50 million in Munich by 2017. The new terminal is scheduled to be built byFraport, south of the
existing terminals on the grounds of the former Rhein-Main Air Base. The new Terminal 3 is to
accommodate up to 25 million passengers and will feature 75 new aircraft positions when completely
constructed. An extension of the SkyLine people moversystem is planned to connect the new
terminal to Terminals 1 and 2 and the airport train stations.
In August 2014, the city of Frankfurt granted building permission for the first phase of Terminal
3.[16] The groundbreaking for the new Terminal took place on 5 October 2015. Its first phase,
consisting of the main building and two of the planned four piers, is planned to open by 2022 and will
be able to handle 15 million additional passengers per year. Total costs are estimated at 3 billion
Euros.[17]
Passenger airlines and destinations[edit]
106 airlines fly to 275 destinations in 111 countries from Frankfurt Airport, with approximately 1,365
flights per day. Lufthansa and their Star Alliance partners account for 77% of all passengers at
Frankfurt Airport.[18] 65% of all intercontinental flights in Germany are operated at Frankfurt Airport,
followed by Munich Airport with 17%.[18]
Due to capacity constraints until autumn 2011 when the fourth runway went into operation, there are
few low-cost carriers operating at Frankfurt Airport. These airlines useFrankfurtHahn Airport as an
alternative which also provides lower operational costs. Despite its name, FrankfurtHahn Airport is
located about 120 km (75 mi) west of Frankfurt, closer to Koblenz and Mainz.
The following airlines offer regular scheduled and charter flights at Frankfurt Airport:[19]

Airlin
Destinations
es

Adria
Ljubljana, Pristina, Tirana
Airways

Aegean Athens, Thessaloniki

Airlines Seasonal: Corfu, Heraklion, Rhodes

Aer
Dublin
Lingus

Aeroflot Kazan, MoscowSheremetyevo

Air Algiers
Algrie Seasonal: Oran

Air
Arabia Marrakesh
Maroc

Air
Astana
Astana

airBaltic Riga
Airlin
Destinations
es

Air
BerlinTegel, Palma de Mallorca (ends 25 March 2017)[20]
Berlin

Air Calgary, MontralTrudeau, TorontoPearson

Canada Seasonal: Ottawa, Vancouver (begins 1 June 2017)[21]

Air
BeijingCapital, Chengdu, ShanghaiPudong, Shenzhen
China

Air
Madrid
Europa

Air ParisCharles de Gaulle

France Seasonal: Bordeaux (begins 25 July 2017)[22]

Air India Delhi

Air
Malta (ends 3 May 2017)[23]
Malta

Air
Chiinu
Moldova

Air
WindhoekHosea Kutako
Namibia

Air
Belgrade
Serbia

Air VIA Seasonal charter: Burgas, Varna

Airlin
Destinations
es

Alitalia RomeFiumicino

Alitalia
operated
by Alital
MilanLinate
ia
CityLine
r

All
Nippon TokyoHaneda
Airways

America
Charlotte, Dallas/Fort Worth
n
Seasonal: Philadelphia
Airlines

Asiana
SeoulIncheon
Airlines

Austrian
Graz, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Vienna
Airlines

Azores
Ponta Delgada
Airlines

Belavia Minsk

BMI
Bristol, Jnkping, Karlstad
Regional

British
LondonHeathrow
Airways
Airlin
Destinations
es

British
Airways
operated
LondonCity
by BA
CityFlye
r

Bulgaria
Sofia
Air

Bulgaria
n Air Seasonal charter: Burgas, Varna
Charter

Cathay
Hong Kong
Pacific

China
TaipeiTaoyuan
Airlines

China
Eastern ShanghaiPudong
Airlines

China
Southern Changsha, Guangzhou
Airlines

Agadir, Barbados, Cancn, Fortaleza, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Gran

Canaria, Havana, Holgun, Hurghada, Kilimanjaro, La Palma, Lanzarote, Las
Vegas,Mah, Mal, Mauritius, Mombasa, Montego Bay, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Recife, Salvador
da Bahia (ends 13 March 2017),[24] San Jos de Costa Rica,San Juan, Santo
Domingo, Seattle/Tacoma, TenerifeSouth, Tobago, Varadero, Zanzibar
Condor
Seasonal: Anchorage, Antalya, Antigua, Austin, Baltimore, Bari, Burgas, Cagliari, Calgary, Cape
Town, Catania, Chania, Comiso (begins 2 May 2017),[25] Corfu, Dalaman, Fairbanks, Fort-de-
France (ends 13 March 2017), Grenada, Heraklion, Ibiza, Jerez de la
Frontera, Kalamata, Kavala, Lamezia Terme, Larnaca, Malta, Minneapolis/St.
Paul, Mykonos, Naples, Nassau (begins 6 November 2017),[26] New Orleans (begins 3 May
2017),[27] Olbia,Paphos, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Pittsburgh (begins 23 June 2017),[28] Portland
Airlin
Destinations
es

(OR), Porto Santo (begins 3 April 2017),[29] Rhodes, Rijeka, Rimini,Samos (begins 30 May
2017),[30] San Diego (begins 1 May 2017),[27] Santorini, Skiathos, Split, St. Lucia, Thessaloniki (begins
28 April 2017), TorontoPearson, Vancouver, Whitehorse, WindhoekHosea Kutako

Condor
operated
Seasonal: Kos, Preveza, Zakynthos
by airBal
tic

Croatia Dubrovnik, Split, Zagreb

Airlines Seasonal: Pula, Zadar

Czech
Prague
Airlines

Delta Air
Atlanta, Detroit, New YorkJFK
Lines

Ellinair Seasonal: Thessaloniki (begins 10 June 2017)[31]

EgyptAir Cairo

El Al Tel AvivBen Gurion

Emirates DubaiInternational

Ethiopia
n Addis Ababa
Airlines

Etihad
Abu Dhabi
Airways
Airlin
Destinations
es

Helsinki
Finnair
Seasonal: Kittil (begins 12 December 2017)[32]

Finnair
operated
by Nordi
Helsinki
c
Regional
Airlines

Gulf Air Bahrain

Iberia Madrid

Icelandai
ReykjavkKeflavk
r

Iran Air TehranImam Khomeini

Iraqi
Airways
operated Baghdad
by AirEx
plore

Japan
TokyoNarita
Airlines

KLM
operated
by KLM Amsterdam
Cityhopp
er
Airlin
Destinations
es

Korean
SeoulIncheon
Air

Kuwait
Kuwait
Airways

LATAM
So PauloGuarulhos
Brasil

LATAM
Madrid, Santiago de Chile
Chile

LOT
Polish WarsawChopin
Airlines

Aberdeen, Abuja, Addis Ababa, Alicante, Algiers, Almaty, AmmanQueen

Alia, Amsterdam, Ankara, Antalya, Ashgabat, Astana, Athens, Atlanta,Bahrain, Baku, Bangalore, Ba
ngkokSuvarnabhumi, Barcelona, BeijingCapital, Beirut, Belgrade, Berlin
Tegel, Bilbao, Billund, Birmingham, Bogot,Bologna, Boston, Bremen, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapes
t, Buenos AiresEzeiza, Cairo, Cape Town, Casablanca, Chennai, Chicago
O'Hare,Copenhagen, Dallas/Fort Worth, Dammam, Delhi, Denver, Detroit, Doha, Dresden, Dubai
International, Dublin, Dsseldorf, Edinburgh, Erbil, Faro,Funchal, Gdask, Geneva, Gothenburg, Ha
mburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Hong Kong, HoustonIntercontinental, Istanbul
Atatrk, Jeddah, JohannesburgTambo, Katowice, Kiev
Boryspil, Krakw, Kuwait, Leipzig/Halle, Linz, Lisbon, LondonHeathrow, Los
Angeles, Luanda, Lagos, Lyon, Madrid, Malabo,Mlaga, Malta, Manchester, Marrakesh, Marseille, M
Lufthans
exico City, Miami, MilanLinate, MilanMalpensa, Moscow
a
Domodedovo, Mumbai, Munich,Mnster/Osnabrck, NagoyaCentrair, Nanjing, Naples, New York
JFK, Newark, Nice, Nuremberg, Orlando, OsakaKansai, OsloGardermoen, ParisCharles de
Gaulle, Port Harcourt, Porto, Pozna, Prague, Qingdao, Riga, Rio de JaneiroGaleo, Riyadh, Rome
Fiumicino, Saint Petersburg, San Francisco, So PauloGuarulhos, Seattle/Tacoma, Seoul
Incheon, Seville, ShanghaiPudong, Singapore, Sofia, StockholmArlanda, Stuttgart, Tallinn,Tehran
Imam Khomeini, Tel AvivBen Gurion, TokyoHaneda, Toronto
Pearson, Toulouse, Tunis, Turin, Valencia, Vancouver, Venice, Vienna, Vilnius,Warsaw
Chopin, WashingtonDulles, Wrocaw, Zagreb, Zrich
Seasonal: Bodrum, Bordeaux (begins 2 April 2017),[33] Dubrovnik, Heringsdorf (begins 15 April
2017),[33] HvzBalaton, Ivalo, Larnaca, Palma de Mallorca, ReykjavkKeflavk, Santiago de
Compostela (begins 27 March 2017),[33] Shannon (begins 29 April 2017),[34] Split, Troms
Airlin
Destinations
es

Lufthans
a
operated NairobiJomo Kenyatta, Panama CityTocumen, Philadelphia, San Jose (CA), Tampa
by Lufth Seasonal: Cancn, Mal, Mauritius, MontralTrudeau
ansa
CityLine

Lufthans
a
operated Pune
by Privat
Air

Lufthans
a Aalborg, Amsterdam, Basel/Mulhouse, Belgrade, Billund, Bologna, Brussels, Bucharest, Bydgoszcz,
Regional Dsseldorf, Florence, Friedrichshafen, Gdask,Leipzig/Halle, Linz, London
operated City, Luxembourg, Minsk, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt (begins 26 March
by Lufth 2017),[35] Pozna, Pula (begins 28 April 2017),[36] Sylt, Tirana
ansa Seasonal: Bastia, Cagliari, Olbia, Palermo, Turin, Verona, Wrocaw
CityLine

MIAT
Mongoli
Seasonal: Ulaanbaatar
an
Airlines

Middle
East Beirut
Airlines

Montene
gro Podgorica
Airlines

Niki Palma de Mallorca (begins 26 March 2017)[20]

Nouvelai
Charter: Enfidha
r
Airlin
Destinations
es

Oman
Muscat
Air

Onur Air Seasonal: IstanbulAtatrk

Pegasus
IstanbulSabiha Gken
Airlines

Qatar
Doha
Airways

Royal
Air Casablanca, Nador
Maroc

Royal
Jordania AmmanQueen Alia
n

Alicante (begins 29 March 2017), Athens (begins 29 October 2017), Barcelona (begins 29 October
2017), Bergamo (begins 29 October 2017), Brindisi(begins 31 October 2017), Catania (begins 29
October 2017), Glasgow (begins 29 October 2017), Gran Canaria (begins 30 October
2017), Faro (begins 29 March 2017), Krakw (begins 29 October 2017), Lanzarote (begins 29
October 2017), Lisbon (begins 29 October 2017), London-Stansted (begins 29 October
Ryanair
2017), Madrid (begins 29 October 2017), Mlaga (begins 29 March 2017), Manchester (begins 29
October 2017), Palma de Mallorca (begins 29 March 2017), Pisa (begins 31 October
2017), Porto (begins 29 October 2017), Seville (begins 31 October 2017), Tenerife-South (begins 31
October 2017),Toulouse (begins 29 October 2017), Treviso (begins 29 October
2017), Valencia (begins 29 October 2017)[37]

S7
Seasonal: Novosibirsk
Airlines

Jeddah, Riyadh
Saudia
Seasonal: Medina
Airlin
Destinations
es

Scandina
vian Copenhagen, OsloGardermoen, StockholmArlanda
Airlines

Singapor
e New YorkJFK, Singapore
Airlines

Somon
Dushanbe
Air

South
African JohannesburgTambo
Airways

SunExpr Antalya, zmir

ess Seasonal: Ordu-Giresun (begins 1 May 2017)[38]

SunExpr
Adana, Agadir, Ankara, Antalya, Chania, Gazipaa, Hurghada, Ibiza, zmir, Lamezia
ess
Terme, Lanzarote, Luxor, Marsa Alam, Palma de Mallorca, Sharm el-Sheikh
Deutschl
Seasonal: Burgas, Samsun, Thessaloniki, Varna
and

Swiss
Internati
Zrich
onal Air
Lines

Swiss
Internati
onal Air
Lines
operated Zrich
by Swiss
Global
Air
Lines
Airlin
Destinations
es

TAP
Lisbon
Portugal

TAROM Bucharest

Thai
BangkokSuvarnabhumi, Phuket
Airways

Boa Vista, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Hurghada, Lanzarote, Marsa Alam, Sal, TenerifeSouth
TUIfly Seasonal: Antalya, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Funchal, Heraklion, Ibiza, Jerez de la
Frontera, Kos, Minorca, Palma de Mallorca, Patras, Rhodes, Zadar

Tunisair Djerba, Enfidha, Tunis

Turkish IstanbulAtatrk, IstanbulSabiha Gken

Airlines Seasonal: Adana, Ankara, Kayseri, Izmir

Turkmen
istan Ashgabat
Airlines

Ukraine
Internati
KievBoryspil
onal
Airlines

United
ChicagoO'Hare, HoustonIntercontinental, Newark, San Francisco, WashingtonDulles
Airlines

Uzbekist
an Tashkent
Airways
 Airlin
Destinations
es

UTair
Seasonal: Rostov-on-Don
Aviation

Vietnam
Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City
Airlines

Wizz Air Budapest (begins 15 December 2017),[39][40] Sofia (begins 22 May 2017)[39][40]

WOW
ReykjavkKeflavk
air

Cargo airlines and destinations[edit]

Frankfurt Airport is the second-largest multimodal transport airport in Europe and has several
logistics facilities. These facilities are grouped at two areas at the airport ground: In the north
(CargoCity Nord) and in the south (CargoCity Sd). In 2010 it was the second-busiest airport by
cargo traffic in Europe after ParisCharles de Gaulle Airport, handling 2,231,348 metric tonnes of
loaded and unloaded freight.
The following airlines operate regular scheduled cargo operations at Frankfurt Airport:

Airlines Destinations

AeroLogic Ashgabat, Hong Kong

Air Algrie
Algiers
Cargo

Air China Cargo BeijingCapital, ShanghaiPudong

AirBridgeCargo
LondonHeathrow, Helsinki, MoscowDomodedovo, MoscowSheremetyevo, Yekaterinburg
Airlines

Asiana Cargo Gteborg Landvetter, MoscowDomodedovo, SeoulIncheon, Vienna

 Airlines Destinations

ASL Airlines
DubaiInternational, Lige
Belgium

Atlas Air Hahn, HoustonIntercontinental, Miami

Cathay Pacific Amsterdam, Chennai, DubaiInternational, Hong Kong, Manchester, Mumbai, ParisCharles
Cargo de Gaulle

China Airlines Abu Dhabi, Prague, TaipeiTaoyuan

China Cargo
ShanghaiPudong
Airlines

China Southern
Guangzhou, ShanghaiPudong
Airlines

DHL Aviation
operated by ASL Leipzig/Halle
Airlines Ireland

DHL Aviation
operated by EAT Leipzig/Halle, LondonHeathrow
Leipzig

Emirates
Cairo, CampinasViracopos, Dakar, DubaiAl Maktoum, Mexico City, Tripoli
SkyCargo

Etihad Cargo Abu Dhabi

FedEx Express Cologne/Bonn, Memphis

 Airlines Destinations

FedEx Feeder
operated by ASL ParisCharles de Gaulle
Airlines Ireland

Iran Air Cargo Tehran-Mehrabad

Korean Air Brussels, MoscowSheremetyevo, Navoi, SeoulIncheon, StockholmArlanda, Tel AvivBen

Cargo Gurion

LATAM Cargo
Amsterdam, Buenos AiresEzeiza, CampinasViracopos, Lima, Santiago de Chile
Chile

Aguadilla, Almaty, Amsterdam, Atlanta, Bahrain, Bangalore, Bangkok

Suvarnabhumi, BeijingCapital, Bogot, Boston, Buenos
Aires, Cairo, Campinas,Chennai, Chicago
O'Hare, Chongqing, Cologne/Bonn, Curitiba, Dakar, Dallas/Fort
Worth, Delhi, Detroit, Dhaka, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Istanbul
Lufthansa Cargo
Atatrk, JakartaSoekarnoHatta, Jeddah, JohannesburgO.R. Tambo, Kaunas, Los
Angeles, Manaus, Manchester, Mexico City, MoscowSheremetyevo,Mumbai, Nairobi, New
YorkJFK, Novosibirsk, OsakaKansai, Quito, Rio de JaneiroGaleo, Riyadh, Seoul
Incheon, ShanghaiPudong, Shannon, Sharjah,Shenyang, Shenzhen, Tel AvivBen
Gurion, TokyoNarita, TorontoPearson, Tucumn

Lufthansa Cargo
operated Atlanta, ChicagoO'Hare, Houston, Los Angeles, TorontoPearson
by AeroLogic

Maximus Air
Sharjah
Cargo

MyCargo
IstanbulSabiha Gken
Airlines

National Airlines Doha, Hong Kong, Karaganda, Kuwait, Quetta

Nightexpress Birmingham
 Airlines Destinations

Qatar Airways
Doha
Cargo

Saudia Cargo Dammam, Riyadh

Southern Air Anchorage

Turkish Airlines
IstanbulAtatrk, Lagos
Cargo

Uzbekistan
Baku, Tashkent
Airways

CargoCity[edit]
CargoCity is the name of the two large main areas featuring most of the airport's freight handling
facilities:

The 98 hectare large CargoCity Sd (South) is home to a cargo centre for dispatch service
providers and freight forwarding businesses. Several transport companies likeDHL Global
Forwarding, Air China, Emirates, Japan Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Korean Air and Fraport Cargo
Services are based here.
CargoCity Nord (North) is the headquarters of Lufthansa Cargo. Additional facilities here are a
Perishables Centre for fresh produced goods and the Frankfurt Animal Lounge for the transport
of living animals.

Other facilities[edit]
Airport City[edit]
Frankfurt Airport Centre 1

The Squaire

The airport ground and the surrounding area of Frankfurt Airport offer a large variety of on-airport
businesses as well as airport-related businesses, including office space, hotels, shopping areas,
conference rooms and car parks. The development of an airport city has significantly accelerated in
recent years.
Frankfurt Airport Centres[edit]
The Frankfurt Airport Centre 1 (FAC 1) near Terminal 1 offers office and conference facilities, the
newer FAC 2 is located within Terminal 2 and offers office space for airlines.
Airport City Mall[edit]
The Airport City Mall is located on the landside of Terminal 1, departure hall B. It offers national and
international retailers and label stores, a supermarket and several restaurants.
The Squaire[edit]
Main article: The Squaire
The Squaire is an office building with a total floor area of 140,000 m2 (1,506,900 sq ft). It is directly
connected to Terminal 1 through a connecting corridor for pedestrians. The accounting firm KPMG,
Lufthansa and two Hilton Hotels (Hilton Garden Inn Frankfurt Airport with 334 rooms and Hilton
Frankfurt Airport with 249 rooms) occupy space in The Squaire.
Main Airport Centre[edit]
The Main Airport Centre, named after the Main river, is an office building with ten floors and about
51,000 m2 (549,000 sq ft) of office space. It is located at the edge of the Frankfurt City Forest near
Terminal 2.
Sheraton Hotel & Conference Centre[edit]
Sheraton Hotels and Resorts offers 1,008 guest rooms adjacent to Terminal 1 and a conference
centre for up to 200 delegates.
Gateway Gardens[edit]
Gateway Gardens is a former housing area for the United States Air Force personnel based at
the Rhein-Main Air Base, close to Terminal 2. Like the air base, the housing area was closed in
2005. Since then the area is being developed into a business location for airport-related companies.
Lufthansa moved itsairline catering subsidiary LSG Sky Chefs to Gateway
Gardens, Condor and SunExpress are headquartered here. DB Schenker, the logistics company
of Deutsche Bahn, have built a 66 m (217 ft) high-rise building.
Deutsche Bahn are also currently in the process of adding a new S-Bahn train station in this area.
This includes re-routing of the existing S-Bahn line into new tunnels between the existing Frankfurt
Airport Regional Station and Frankfurt-Stadion station. The journey time will increase by 4 minutes
but Deutsche Bahn have stated that they will use new trains (ET423) which will be faster and have
more capacity.[41]
Further users[edit]

Lufthansa Aviation Centre

Fraport's facilities are on the property of Frankfurt Airport.[42] Its head office building is by Gate
3.[43] The newly constructed[44]headquarters were inaugurated there in 2012.[45] The Fraport
Driving School (Fraport Fahrschule) is in Building 501 of CargoCity South (CargoCity Sd).[46][47]
Lufthansa's main building, where the board of directors is seated, is called Lufthansa Aviation
Centre (LAC).[48] Lufthansa operates the Lufthansa Aviation Center (LAC), Building 366 at
Frankfurt Airport.[49][50] Several company departments, including Corporate
Communications,[51] Investor Relations,[52] and Media Relations,[53] are based at the LAC.
Lufthansa also uses several other buildings in the area, including the Lufthansa Flight Training
Center for flight training operations and the Lufthansa Basis BG2[54] as a central base and for
crew briefing. As of 2011 Lufthansa Cargo has been headquartered in Building 451 of the
Frankfurt Airport area.[55] As of 2012 Lufthansa Cargo is located at Gate 25 in the CargoCity Nord
area, Lufthansa Technik is located at Gate 23 and in the CargoCity Sd area.[56]
Star Alliance, an airline alliance, has its headquarters at the Frankfurt Airport Centre 1 (FAC 1)
adjacent to Terminal 1.[57]
Airmail Centre Frankfurt, a joint venture of Lufthansa Cargo, Fraport, and Deutsche
Post for airmail transport, has its head office in Building 189, between Terminals 1 and 2.[58]
 Aero Lloyd previously had its head office in Building 182.[59][60]

Statistics[edit]

Lufthansa Airbus A340-300 at Frankfurt Airport

Aer Lingus Airbus A320-200 at Frankfurt Airport

Delta Air Lines Boeing 767-400ERat Frankfurt Airport

Korean Air Airbus A380-800 at Frankfurt Airport

TAM Airlines Boeing 777-300ER at Frankfurt Airport

Cathay Pacific Boeing 747-400 at Frankfurt Airport

Air France Airbus A318-100 at Frankfurt Airport

United Airlines Boeing 777-200ERat Frankfurt Airport

Passenger numbers[edit]
Passengers
2000 49,360,620
2001 48,559,980
2002 48,450,356
2003 48,351,664
2004 51,098,271
2005 52,219,412
2006 52,810,683
2007 54,161,856
2008 53,467,450
2009 50,932,840
 2010 53,009,221
2011 56,436,255
2012 57,520,001
2013 58,036,948
2014[61] 59,570,000
2015[62] 61,032,022
2016 60,792,308
Source: ADV[63]

Route statistics[edit]

Busiest routes at Frankfurt Airport (2015)[64]

Departing
Rank Destination Operating airlines
passengers

1 BerlinTegel 802,000 Lufthansa, Air Berlin

2 Hamburg 745,100 Lufthansa

London
3 639,500 British Airways, Lufthansa
Heathrow

4 Zurich 621,070 Lufthansa, Swiss International Air Lines

5 Vienna 484,200 Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa

6 Munich 475,100 Lufthansa

7 Madrid 459,400 Iberia, LAN Airlines, Lufthansa, Air Europa

 Busiest routes at Frankfurt Airport (2015)[64]

Departing
Rank Destination Operating airlines
passengers

8 ChicagoO'Hare 451,700 Lufthansa, United Airlines

ParisCharles de
9 448,200 Air France, Lufthansa
Gaulle

10 Singapore 429,500 Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines

11 New YorkJFK 365,400 Delta, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines

12 Geneva 386,556 Lufthansa

13 Dubai 337,700 Emirates, Lufthansa

Washington
14 334,900 Lufthansa, United Airlines
Dulles

Bangkok
15 330,900 Lufthansa, Thai Airways
Suvarnabhumi

16 RomeFiumicino 320,300 Alitalia, Lufthansa

17 IstanbulAtatrk 319,900 Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines

 Busiest routes at Frankfurt Airport (2015)[64]

Departing
Rank Destination Operating airlines
passengers

Palma de
18 319,000 Air Berlin, Condor, TUIfly, Lufthansa
Mallorca

19 Barcelona 290,600 Lufthansa, Vueling

20 TokyoHaneda 290,600 All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines, Lufthansa

21 TorontoPearson 289,100 Air Canada, Lufthansa, Condor

Condor, Pegasus
22 Antalya 289,000
Airlines, SunExpress, TUIFly, Turkish Airlines

23 Amsterdam 287,200 KLM, Lufthansa

24 San Francisco 277,300 Lufthansa, United Airlines

25 Copenhagen 276,400 Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines

26 BeijingCapital 270,500 Air China, Lufthansa

Shanghai
27 264,900 Air China, China Eastern Airlines, Lufthansa
Pudong
 Busiest routes at Frankfurt Airport (2015)[64]

Departing
Rank Destination Operating airlines
passengers

Stockholm
28 264,000 Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines
Arlanda

29 Newark 255,000 United Airlines, Lufthansa

30 Lisbon 253,900 Lufthansa, TAP Portugal

31 SeoulIncheon 236,400 Asiana Airlines, Korean Air, Lufthansa

32 Tel Aviv 228,300 El Al, Lufthansa, Sun d'Or International Airlines

So Paulo
33 223,500 Lufthansa, TAM Airlines
Guarulhos

34 Helsinki 222,700 Finnair, Lufthansa

35 Hong Kong 221,700 Cathay Pacific, Lufthansa

36 Prague 220,000 Czech Airlines, Lufthansa

37 Dublin 214,700 Aer Lingus, Lufthansa

 Busiest routes at Frankfurt Airport (2015)[64]

Departing
Rank Destination Operating airlines
passengers

Oslo
38 213,300 Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines
Gardermoen

39 Athens 210,500 Aegean Airlines, Lufthansa

Moscow
40 210,500 Lufthansa
Domodedovo

41 Zagreb 208,724 Croatia Airlines, Lufthansa

Ground transport[edit]
Frankfurt Airport can easily be accessed by car, taxi, train or bus as it features an extensive
transport network. There are two railway stations at the airport: one for suburban/regional trains and
one for long-distance trains.

Rail[edit]
Regional station[edit]
S-Bahn at the regional station

Main article: Frankfurt Airport regional station

Frankfurt Airport regional station (Frankfurt Flughafen Regionalbahnhof) at Terminal 1, concourse B,

provides access to the S-Bahncommuter rail lines S8 and S9. Each of these lines have trains
departing every 15 minutes during daytime to Hanau Central Stationeastwards via Frankfurt Central
Station and Offenbach East Station or Wiesbaden Central Station westwards
via Rsselsheim or Mainz Central Station (line S8) or Mainz-Kastel Station (line S9).

The journey time to Frankfurt Central Station is 1012 minutes.[65]

Regional Express (RE) trains to Saarbrcken, Koblenz or Wrzburg call at this station. These trains
provide less frequent but additional connections between Frankfurt Airport and the Central Station.[65]

Long-distance station[edit]

Platforms at the long-distance station

Main article: Frankfurt Airport long-distance station

Frankfurt Airport long-distance station (Frankfurt Flughafen Fernbahnhof) was opened in 1999. The
station is squeezed in between themotorway A 3 and the four-lane Bundesstrae B43, linked to
Terminal 1 by a connecting corridor for pedestrians that bridges the Autobahn. It is the end point of
the newly built CologneFrankfurt high-speed rail line, which links southern Germany to the Rhine-
Ruhrmetropolitan area, the Netherlands and Belgium via Cologne at speeds up to 300 km/h
(190 mph). About 10 trains per hour depart in all directions.[65]

Deutsche Bahn operates the AIRail Service in conjunction with Lufthansa, American
Airlines and Emirates. The service operates to the central stations
of Bonn, Cologne, Dsseldorf, Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Hamburg, Hannover, Mannheim, Munich
, Nuremberg, Stuttgartand to Kassel-Wilhelmshhe.[66]

Car[edit]
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 1015
minutes by car or taxi to get to Frankfurt Central Station or the centre of the city.[67]

Passengers driving their own 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.

Bus and coaches[edit]

Various transport companies provide bus services to the airport from the surrounding areas as well
as by coach to long-distance destinations.[68]

Previously All Nippon Airways operated a bus service to Dsseldorf exclusively for ANA customers;
that way Dsseldorf passengers would be transported to Frankfurt Airport to board their ANA
flights.[69] In 2014 ANA established a separate flight from Tokyo to Dsseldorf,[70] causing the bus
services to end.[71]

Ground transport statistics[edit]

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.[72]

Incidents and accidents[edit]

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.
On 19 June 1985 a bomb cloaked in a canvas bag was detonated approx at 14:42 in the
afternoon in Hall B of the Rhein Main Frankfurt Airport, leaving the section to look like a
battlefield. The blast resulted in 3 deaths and 32 injuries, of which 4 were considered serious.[73]
In September 2007, German authorities arrested three suspected terrorists for plotting a
"massive" terror attack, which posed "an imminent threat" to Frankfurt Airport and the US Air
Force base in Ramstein.[74]
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.[75]
On January 7, 2017 8:10 local time a bus which carries passengers to a Lufthansa flight on gate
A20 collides with "another vehicle", more than 10 people are injured.[76]