New Runway

Frankfurt Airport’s new Runway Northwest opened on October 21, 2011.

Inauguration of the 2,800-meter long runway will allow for parallel takeoff and landing operations and incrementally raise FRA's coordinated runway capacity from currently 90 to 126 movements per hour.This capacity increase will enable FRA to meet the growing demand from passengers and airlines. Forecasts predict that nearly 90 million passengers per year will fly into or out of FRA or make a connection here in the future.

Interested airlines should not hesitate to contact our Sales Team:

Roland Weil Assistant Vice President Sales Tel.: +49 69 690-61749 Contact

Despite this significant expansion of the traffic volume, we will do everything we can to minimize the associated burdens on people and the environment. As the airport operator, we are committed to active noise abatement aimed at reducing noise nuisance for our neighbors.

Based on the Aircraft Noise Abatement Act, the state government of Hessen has also issued a Noise Abatement Zone Order for Frankfurt Airport. This establishes the noise abatement zones for a new passive noise abatement program (German version only).

In addition, the "Casa Program" is being carried out. This program offers real estate owners exposed to additional nuisance through low-flying aircraft because of the operation of the new northwest runway financial compensation on a voluntary basis through purchase of the property or settlement payments.

In addition, the “Planfeststellungsverfahren” (PFV), a public works planning procedure under civil law, looked at the environmental compatibility among other things. The outcome of that procedure can be found in the Planfeststellungsbeschluss (public works procedure decision), which was issued on 18 December 2007 by the Ministry for Industry, Transport and State Development of the State of Hessen.