Profile:

• Frankfurt Airport City: the airport as pulsating city!
• With approx. 70,000 persons employed, Frankfurt Airport is Germany's largest employer at a single location
• Passengers / year: 54.167.8173 in 2007 (increase of approx. 2.5 % compared to 2006)
• Freight / year: 2.095.293 metric tons in 2007 (increase of approx. 1.9 % compared to 2006)
• Flight movements / year: 492.569 in 2007
• A total of more than 300 destinations in 109 countries
• More than 1,250 takeoffs and landings daily
• Worldwide renowned baggage conveyor system (capacity approx. 18,000 baggage pieces per hour; total conveyor system length 67 kilometers)
• Total of 386 check-in counters (250 in Terminal 1 and 136 in Terminal 2)
• 45 minute connecting time for all terminals, 35 minutes upon request
• Two runways for takeoffs and landings + one runway for takeoffs only (each 4,000m long)
• Additional runway planned. Capacity increase from 80/82 movements per hour to 120 movements in 2009
• CargoCity Frankfurt for quick and safe cargo handling
• Direct connection to Germany's busiest highway intersection in north/south direction (A5) and east/west direction (A3)
• Direct connection to European high-speed train routes of German Rail with over 170 trains daily at the airport's long-distance train station and 218 trains daily at the airport's regional train station
• Over 15,000 parking spaces
• Airport-Retailing: approx. 88 stores and Duty Free-/Travel Value shops, over 50 cafés and restaurants
• Large catchment area in Europe's major economic center with a population of over 35 million within 200 kilometers from the airport.
  

Here you will find the detailed chroncile of Frankfurt Airport (FRA)

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