FACTS & FIGURES

589 Starts
590 Landings
168671 Passengers travel via Frankfurt Airport
91243 Pieces of luggage get transported
5291 t of Cargo are handled at europes biggest Cargo Airport
80000 Employees from 114 nations work at the Airport
26800 parking processes are recorded at Frankfurt Airport
200 Trains stop at the long-distance station
250 Trains stop at the regional station
700 Bus departures
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Passengers: the busiest day ever at Frankfurt Airport was June 30, 2019.
Figures
  • 61,600,000 passengers travelled via Frankfurt Airport in 2024.
  • In terms of passenger volumes, Frankfurt Airport takes sixth place in Europe.
  • 50.1% of all passengers transfer here.
  • In 2024, 74% of all passengers traveled for private reasons, significantly more than in 2019 with 64.6%.  
  • On 25 days in July 2024, Frankfurt Airport counted 213,418 passengers.
  • The busiest day ever at Frankfurt Airport was June 30, 2019 when 241,228  passengers passed through Frankfurt Airport.
International Hub

Passengers arrive at Frankfurt Airport from all imaginable cities and countries around the globe and transfer to other planes to travel to their final destinations. This results in an efficient central hub that runs like clockwork and is surrounded by air routes like the spokes of a wheel.

  • Of the 61.6 million passengers, international air traffic accounts for 91.4% while domestic flights account for 8.6%.
  • Passengers that board an Boeing 747 at Frankfurt Airport have transferred from some 60 to 80 different feeder flights.
  • 48.4% of all passengers transfer at Frankfurt Airport.
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The employees at Frankfurt Airport are diverse - not all of them possess marshalling wands, however

With around 80,000 employees, Frankfurt Airport is Germany’s largest place of employment. Fraport AG employs people from 114 countries.

  • More than 58.8% of employees commute up to 35 km to the airport
  • Severely handicapped persons make up 2.1% of Fraport’s workforce
  • About 31.8% of management positions are held by women
  • The average age of employees at Fraport is around 49 years.
19035 Vehicles and Equipment in total
12270 Trailer equipment (ground power units, baggage, freight and container trailers, passenger and service stairs, etc.)
3597 mobile units (cars, fire vehicles, aircraft tugs etc.)
2432 Small appliances (bicycles, wheelchairs, hand pallet trucks, leaf blowers, high-pressure cleaners, etc.)
725 electrically powered vehicles are already part of the fleet, additionally there are 411 hybrid vehicles.
1608 exchangeable attachements (snow plows, snow blowers etc.)
285 vehicles are in the fleet of the winter service (tractors, gritter vehicles etc.)
1280 luggage carts (830 in Terminal 1 and 450 in Terminal 2)
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employees of the Fire Department and the Rescue Services are in Service at Frankfurt Airport.

Fire Department

Responsible for firefighting, fire prevention, general assistance and rescue services in the event of accidents or emergencies at or near the airport. The fire department must be able to get to any location on the airfield or apron within three minutes. The roof-mounted canons of the large special fire trucks (crash tenders) used at Frankfurt Airport can propel water more than 70 meters at a rate of at least 5,300 liters a minute.

Rescue Services

Approx. 50 personnel work in three shifts at Frankfurt Airport. They have a fleet of 21 vehicles including:

8 ambulances, 2 fire trucks with telescopic ladders, 1 emergency medical service vehicle, 1 special vehicle for parking garages, 1 cross-country vehicle
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retail spaces tend to every desire of passengers.

The airport provides a large number of services for passengers, visitors and employees. For more information please visit  www.frankfurt-airport.com.

Shopping & Restaurants
  • The shops and food & beverage outlets in both terminals occupy a total of about 35,000 square meters.
  • There are 300 shops, food & beverage outlets and services in Terminals 1 and 2, including 19 Duty Free and Travel Value shops.
  • The shops at Frankfurt Airport are open seven days a week.
  • With floor space of about 2,000 square meters, the Duty Free shop in Pier Z (Terminal 1) is the largest retail outlet at Frankfurt Airport.
  • There is a supermarket selling a wide range of products in the Airport City Mall on the bottom level of Concourse C in Terminal 1.
  • The terminals contain a total of 71 restaurants, bars and cafés.