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Frankfurt Airport

Airport information
IATAFRA
ICAOEDDF
 Location of airport in Germany
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorFraport
ServesFrankfurt am Main
LocationFlughafen (Frankfurt am Main)
Hub
*Air India
(ends 29 October) *Condor Flugdienst *Lufthansa
Elevation111 m (364 ft)

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Frankfurt am Main Airport , 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. 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 and is the 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.

There are plans 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. The 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 and Air India (until October 30, 2010) for its North American services. Lufthansa's secondary hub is Munich Airport where many key medium and long haul routes are available, lessening the need to overburden Frankfurt Airport.

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Airlines Destinations
3rdcoltitle=Terminal
Adria AirwaysLjubljana, Pristina [begins 10 December], Vienna
Aegean AirlinesAthens, Thessaloniki
Aer LingusDublin
AeroflotMoscow-Sheremetyevo
Air AlgérieAlgiers, Oran
Air AstanaAstana
Air BerlinAlicante, Berlin-Tegel, Catania, Hamburg, Hurghada, Malaga, Naples, Palma de Mallorca, Pristina
Seasonal: Corfu, Djerba, Fuerteventura, Ibiza, Kavala, Lamezia Terme, Monastir, Olbia, Rhodes, Samos, Thessaloniki, Westerland/Sylt, Zakynthos
Air CanadaCalgary, Montreal-Trudeau, Ottawa, Toronto-Pearson
Air ChinaBeijing-Capital, Shanghai-Pudong
Air FranceParis-Charles de Gaulle
Air IndiaAhmedabad [ends 30 October], Chicago-O'Hare [ends 30 October], Delhi, Mumbai [ends 30 October], Newark [ends 30 October]
Air MaltaCatania, Malta
Air MauritiusMauritius
Air MoldovaChişinău
Air NamibiaWindhoek
Air TransatCalgary, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver
Seasonal: Edmonton
Air VIASeasonal: Burgas, Varna
airBalticRiga
Albanian AirlinesTirana
AlitaliaMilan-Linate, Rome-Fiumicino
Alitalia operated by Air OneRome-Fiumicino
All Nippon AirwaysTokyo-Narita
American AirlinesChicago-O'Hare [ends 17 November], Dallas/Fort Worth
Ariana Afghan AirlinesKabul
Asiana AirlinesSeoul-Incheon
Austrian AirlinesVienna
Austrian operated by Tyrolean AirwaysInnsbruck, Salzburg, Vienna
B&H AirlinesSarajevo, Tuzla
BelaviaMinsk
British AirwaysLondon-Heathrow
British Airways operated by BA CityFlyerLondon-City
Bulgaria AirSofia
Bulgarian Air CharterSeasonal: Burgas, Varna
Cathay PacificHong Kong
China AirlinesTaipei-Taoyuan
China Eastern AirlinesShanghai-Pudong
Cirrus AirlinesHof/Plauen
Condor FlugdienstAgadir, Antigua, Barbados, Cancún, Colombo, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Havana, Holguín, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Kilimanjaro, Lanzarote, Larnaca, La Romana, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Vegas, Málaga, Malé, Marsa Alam, Mauritius, Mombasa, Montego Bay, Nassau [ends 29 October], Palma de Mallorca, Panama City [begins 4 November], Paphos, Porlamar, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Saint Lucia, Salvador da Bahia, San José de Costa Rica, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Santo Domingo, Seychelles, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tenerife-South, Varadero, Zanzibar
Seasonal: Anchorage, Burgas, Calgary, Chania, Corfu, Dalaman, Djerba, Fairbanks, Goa, Fort Lauderdale, Halifax, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos, Luxor, Phuket, Rhodes, Santorini, Tobago, Vancouver, Whitehorse
Continental AirlinesHouston-Intercontinental, Newark
Croatia AirlinesDubrovnik, Split, Zagreb
Cyprus AirwaysLarnaca
Czech AirlinesPrague
Delta Air LinesAtlanta, Detroit, New York-JFK
DonaviaRostov-on-Don
EgyptAirCairo
El AlTel Aviv
Emirates (airline)Emirates
Ethiopian AirlinesAddis Ababa
Etihad AirwaysAbu Dhabi
FinnairHelsinki
FlybeBirmingham, Glasgow-International, Manchester, Southampton
Freebird AirlinesAntalya
Georgian AirwaysTbilisi
Gulf AirBahrain
Iberia (airline)Iberia
Iberia operated by Air NostrumZaragoza
IcelandairReykjavík-Keflavík
Iran AirMashhad, Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Japan AirlinesTokyo-Narita
Jat AirwaysBelgrade
KLM operated by KLM CityhopperAmsterdam
Korean AirSeoul-Incheon
Kuwait AirwaysKuwait, Geneva
LAN AirlinesMadrid, Santiago
LOT Polish AirlinesGdańsk, Kraków, Poznań, Warsaw
LOT operated by EuroLOTPoznań, Wrocław
LufthansaAbu Dhabi, Abuja, Accra, Addis Ababa, Algiers, Almaty, Amman, Amsterdam, Ashgabat, Asmara, Astana, Athens, Atlanta, Bahrain [resumes 25 October], Baku, Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Belgrade, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Billund, Birmingham (UK), Bogota [resumes 31 October],http://presse.lufthansa.com/en/news-releases/singleview/archive/2010/may/31/article/1715.html Bologna, Boston, Bremen, Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Cairo, Calgary, Caracas, Casablanca, Chennai, Chicago-O'Hare, Copenhagen, Dallas/Fort Worth, Dammam [resumes 25 October], Delhi, Denver, Detroit, Doha, Dresden, Dubai, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Erbil, Faro, Geneva, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Guangzhou, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Houston-Intercontinental, Hyderabad, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jakarta, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Kazan, Kiev-Boryspil, Kolkata [ends 26 March], Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lagos, Larnaca, Leipzig/Halle, Libreville [ends 30 October], Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Luanda, Lyon, Madrid, Malabo, Málaga, Malta, Manchester, Marseille, Mexico City, Miami, Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Minsk, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nagoya-Centrair, Nanjing, New York-JFK, Newark, Nice, Nizhniy Novgorod, Nuremberg, Orlando, Osaka-Kansai, Oslo-Gardermoen, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Perm, Philadelphia, Port Harcourt, Porto, Poznań, Prague, Riga, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino, Rostov-on-Don, Saint Petersburg, Samara, San Francisco, Sana’a, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Seattle/Tacoma, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Sofia, Stavanger, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Tallinn, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Tel Aviv, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson, Toulouse, Tripoli, Tunis, Turin, Vancouver, Venice-Marco Polo, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Washington-Dulles, Yekaterinburg, Zagreb, Zürich
Seasonal: Cape Town
Lufthansa operated by Cirrus AirlinesKatowice, Münster/Osnabrück, Toulouse
Lufthansa operated by PrivatAirBahrain [ends 22 October], Dammam [ends 22 October], Khartoum, Libreville [begins 3 November], Pointe-Noire [begins 3 November], Pune
Lufthansa Regional operated by Air DolomitiTurin, Verona
Lufthansa Regional operated by EurowingsBillund, Bremen, Brussels, Gdańsk, Geneva, Graz, Hanover, Kraków, Leipzig/Halle, London-City, Nuremberg, Stavanger, Stuttgart, Wrocław
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLineBasel/Mulhouse, Bergen, Florence, Friedrichshafen, Linz, London-City, Münster/Osnabrück, Poznań, Rzeszów, Sofia [begins 31 October], Stuttgart, Turin
LuxairLuxembourg
Malaysia AirlinesKuala Lumpur
Malév Hungarian AirlinesBudapest
Middle East AirlinesBeirut
Montenegro AirlinesPodgorica
Niki (airline)Niki
NouvelairMonastir
Oman AirMuscat
Onur AirAntalya, Dalaman
Ostfriesische LufttransportHeringsdorf
Pakistan International AirlinesIslamabad, Lahore
Pegasus AirlinesAntalya
QantasSingapore, Sydney
Qatar AirwaysDoha
Rossiya (airline)Rossiya
Royal Air MarocCasablanca, Nador
Royal JordanianAmman-Queen Alia
S7 AirlinesMoscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk
Safi AirwaysKabul
SaraviaSaratov
SATA InternationalPonta Delgada
Saudi Arabian AirlinesJeddah, Riyadh
Scandinavian AirlinesCopenhagen, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Singapore AirlinesNew York-JFK, Singapore
Sky AirlinesAntalya
Somon AirDushanbe
South African AirwaysJohannesburg
SpanairMadrid
SriLankan AirlinesColombo
Sun d'Or International AirlinesTel Aviv
SunExpressAntalya, İstanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, İzmir
Swiss International Air LinesZürich
Swiss operated by Swiss European Air LinesZürich
Syrian AirAleppo, Damascus
TAM AirlinesRio de Janeiro-Galeão, São Paulo-Guarulhos
TAP PortugalLisbon
TAROMBucharest-Otopeni, Cluj-Napoca
Thai Airways InternationalBangkok-Suvarnabhumi
Transaero AirlinesMoscow-Domodedovo
TUIflyBoa Vista, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Palma de Mallorca, Sal, Tenerife-South
Seasonal: Antalya, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Funchal, Heraklion, Jerez de la Frontera, Kalamata, Kos, Patras/Araxos, Rhodes
TunisairDjerba, Monastir, Tunis
Turkish AirlinesIstanbul-Atatürk, Izmir
Turkish Airlines operated by AnadoluJetAnkara
Turkmenistan AirlinesAshgabat
Ukraine International AirlinesKiev-Boryspil, Simferopol
United AirlinesChicago-O'Hare, San Francisco, Washington-Dulles
US AirwaysCharlotte, Philadelphia
Uzbekistan AirwaysTashkent
Vietnam AirlinesHanoi, Ho Chi Minh City
XL Airways GermanyAdana, Ankara, Antalya, Kayseri, Malatya, Samsun
YemeniaSana'a

Airlines Destinations
AeroLogicAtlanta, Chicago-O'Hare, Leipzig/Halle
AirBridgeCargo AirlinesKrasnojarsk, Moscow-Sheremetyewo
Air China CargoBeijing-Capital, Novosibirsk, Shanghai-Pudong
Asiana CargoSeoul-Incheon, Gothenburg, Moscow-Domodedovo, Vienna
British Airways World CargoAtlanta, Bangalore, Chicago-O'Hare, Delhi, Dubai, Hong Kong, London-Stansted
Cathay Pacific CargoDelhi, Dubai, Hong Kong, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Mumbai, Stockholm-Arlanda
China AirlinesAbu Dhabi, Taipei-Taoyuan
China Southern AirlinesShanghai-Pudong, Urumqi
Emirates SkyCargoDubai, Toledo
European Air TransportLondon-Heathrow
Eva Air CargoDubai, Taipei-Taoyuan
FedEx ExpressAlmaty, Athens, Delhi, Dublin, Hahn, Memphis, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Newark, Osaka-Kansai, Shanghai-Pudong, Tel Aviv, Tokyo-Narita
FedEx Feeder operated by Air ContractorsParis-Charles de Gaulle
Cargo Garuda IndonesiaJakarta-Soekarno Hatta
Grandstar CargoShanghai-Pudong, Tianjin
Night Express (airline)Coventry
Iran Air CargoTehran
Jade Cargo InternationalBarcelona, Kolkata, Lahore, Mumbai, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Vienna
JAL CargoAmsterdam, Tokyo-Narita
Korean Air CargoBrussels, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Navoi, Seoul-Incheon, Stockholm-Arlanda
LAN CargoAmsterdam, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Campinas, Lima, Santiago de Chile
Lufthansa CargoAlmaty, Amsterdam, Athens, Atlanta, Bahrain, Bangalore, Bangkok, Bogota, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Campinas, Chennai, Chicago-O'Hare, Curacao, Curitiba, Dakar, Dallas, Delhi, Gothenburg, Guadalajara, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, IStanbul-Ataturk, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Karaganda, Krasnoyarsk, Kuwait, Lima, Los Angeles, Malta, Manchester, Mexiko City, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Nairobi, New York-JFK, Nottingham, Osaka-Kansai, Quito, Rio de Janeiro, Ryadh, Seattle-Tacoma, Shanghai -Pudong, Shannon, Sharjah, Tashkent, Tianjin, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson
MASkargoAmsterdam, Colombo, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Tashkent
Qatar Airways CargoDoha
Thai Airways InternationalBangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Dubai,Hong Kong
Turkish Airlines CargoIstanbul

Airport Runways
DirectionLength ft(m)Surface
07L/25R13,123 (4,000)Asphalt
07R/25L13,123 (4,000)Asphalt
18 13,123 (4,000)Concrete

Ground transportation statistics : Car and taxi

Ground transportation statistics : Car and taxi
Busiest routes at Frankfurt Airport (2009)
Rank Airport Passengers handled Airlines
1 Berlin-Tegel 777,900 Lufthansa, Air Berlin
2 Hamburg 606,700 Lufthansa, Air Berlin
3 London-Heathrow 602,300 British Airways, Lufthansa
4 Munich 488,700 Lufthansa
5 Chicago-O'Hare 453,900 Air India, American Airlines, Lufthansa, United Airlines
6 Madrid 453,800 Iberia, LAN Airlines, Lufthansa
7 Paris-Charles de Gaulle 445,500 Air France, Lufthansa
8 Vienna 440,000 Adria Airways, Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa, Niki
9 Singapore 427,400 Lufthansa, Qantas, Singapore Airlines
10 New York-JFK 353,200 Delta, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines
11 Washington-Dulles 336,800 Lufthansa, United
12 Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi 335,800 Lufthansa, Thai Airways
13 Istanbul-Atatürk 330,100 Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines
14 Rome-Fiumicino 321,200 Alitalia, Ethiopian Airlines, Lufthansa, Yemenia
15 Dubai 318,300 Condor, Emirates, Lufthansa
16 Barcelona 297,300 Lufthansa
17 Palma de Mallorca 296,000 Air Berlin, Condor, TUIfly
18 Toronto-Pearson 290,200 Air Canada, Air Transat, Lufthansa
19 San Francisco 284,300 Lufthansa, United
20 Amsterdam 279,700 KLM, Lufthansa
21 Zurich 278,300 Lufthansa, Swiss International Air Lines
22 Copenhagen 270,000 [[Lufthansa, SAS
23 Tokyo-Narita 265,400 All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines, Lufthansa
24 Stockholm-Arlanda 257,600 Lufthansa, SAS
25 Beijing-Capital 249,600 Air China, Lufthansa
26 Antalya 245,600 Condor, Pegasus Airlines, Sky Airlines, SunExpress, TUIFly
27 Lisbon 244,300 Lufthansa, TAP Portugal
28 Shanghai-Pudong 239,200 Air China, China Eastern Airlines, Lufthansa
29 Seoul-Incheon 238,500 Asiana Airlines, Korean Air, Lufthansa
30 Athens 237,600 Aegean Airlines, Lufthansa, Olympic Airlines
31 Newark 232,300 Air India, Continental, Lufthansa
32 Hong Kong 231,300 Cathay Pacific, Lufthansa
33 Birmingham 231,106 Lufthansa,Flybe
34 Oslo-Gardermoen 222,600 Lufthansa, SAS
35 São Paulo-Guarulhos 220,315 Lufthansa, TAM Airlines
36 Tel Aviv 219,000 El Al, Lufthansa, Sun d'Or International Airlines
37 Helsinki 218,200 Finnair, Lufthansa
38 Brussels-National 216,200 Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa
39 Prague 206,200 Czech Airlines, Lufthansa
40 Johannesburg 205,755 Lufthansa, South African Airways

Airports of Germany DE

Augsburg Airport * Baden Baden: Baden Airpark * Bayreuth: Bindlacher Berg Airport * Berlin: Schönefeld Airport * Berlin: Tegel Airport * Berlin: Tempelhof Airport * Bitburg Airport * Borkum Airfield * Braunschweig/Wolfsburg Airport * Bremen Airport * Bremerhaven Airport * Cologne/Bonn Airport * Dortmund Airport * Dresden: Klotzsche Airport * Düsseldorf Airport * Emden Airport * Erfurt Airport * Frankfurt am Main Airport * Frankfurt: Egelsbach Airport * Friedrichshafen Airport * Hahn: Frankfurt-Hahn Airport * Hamburg: Fuhlsbüttel Airport * Hanover: Langenhagen Airport * Heide/Büsum Airport * Heist: Uetersen Airport * Heligoland Airport * Heringsdorf Airport * Hof: Plauen Airport * Ingolstadt/Manching Airport * Kassel/Calden Airport * Kiel: Holtenau Airport * Leipzig-Altenburg Airport * Leipzig/Halle Airport * Lübeck: Blankensee Airport * Mannheim City Airport * Memmingen Airport * Mönchengladbach: Düsseldorf-Mönchengladbach Airport * Münster/Osnabrück Airport * Munich: Franz Josef Strauß Airport * Nuremberg Airport * Paderborn Lippstadt Airport * Rostock: Laage Airport * Saarbrücken Airport * Siegen: Siegerland Airport * Stuttgart: Echterdingen Airport * Weeze: Niederrhein Airport * Westerland: Sylt Airport * Zweibrücken Airport *



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