FRANKFURT, Germany,
March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
New Connection with Air China to
Chengdu, China - Freighter
Services to 78 Destinations in 40 Nations
FRA/rap> The new Frankfurt Airport (FRA) Summer Timetable
2013 - which goes into effect on Sunday,
March 31 - will feature 107 airlines offering passenger
flights to 295 destinations in 107 countries per week. A total of
4,790 flight departures (passenger and cargo flights) will be
offered per week via FRA.
The role of Frankfurt as
Germany's most important hub in
international aviation is underscored, in particular, by FRA's high
percentage share of intercontinental traffic. Out of a total of
775,000 seats being offered per week at Frankfurt, about 285,000 seats will be offered
on long-haul routes. Growth in this segment can be attributed to
the increased deployment of larger wide-body aircraft at FRA such
as the A380 and the B747-8. During the summer schedule, Fraport
(the owner and manager of Frankfurt Airport) is expecting ten A380
superjumbo departures per day: flown by Lufthansa, Singapore
Airlines, Korean Air and Thai Airways.
On May 19, Air China (CA/CCA) will
be inaugurating a new intercontinental route via FRA with three
flights per week to Chengdu (CTU),
the capital city Sichuan province
in China
(http://www.cdairport.com/front_en). From the start of the summer
schedule Lufthansa will use state-of-the-art Boeing 747-8 jets on
the FRA-Hong Kong route. In addition, Lufthansa will increase its
flights services to Ashgabat in
Turkmenistan from four to five
flights per week. In Germany,
Lufthansa will raise frequencies on the busy FRA-Munich (MUC) route
from 98 to 105 per week.
In European traffic, FRA will be offering four new flight
connections. The Spanish carrier Vueling (VY/VLG) will be flying
between FRA and the Catalonian capital of Barcelona (BCN) 12 times per week
(http://www.barcelona-airport.com). Britain's BMI Regional (BM/BMR) will be
offering 11 flights per week from FRA to Bristol (BRS) - gateway to the Severn estuary
and Somerset regions in
southwestern England
(http://www.bristolairport.co.uk).
New services to Eastern/Central
Europe include Croatia Airlines (OU/CTN) new twice-per-week
connection from FRA to Pula (PUY) in Istria County on Croatia's northern coast
(http://www.airport-pula.hr). In early June
2013, Utair (UT) will launch a weekly service to
Rostov-on-Don (ROV) in the Russian
Federation, using Boeing 737-500 aircraft for this
three-and-a-half hour flight (http://www.aeroport-rostov.ru). LOT
Polish Airlines (LO/LOT) is expanding its frequencies from FRA to
Krakau (KRK) in southwestern Poland from 7 to 13 flights per week
(http://www.krakowairport.pl/en) and to the capital of Warsaw (WAW) from 21 to 28 flights per week
(http://www.lotnisko-chopina.pl/en/passenger). Lufthansa (LH/DLH)
is increasing frequencies on existing routes from its FRA global
hub to the Baltic city of Tallinn
(TLL) in Estonia
(http://www.tallinn-airport.ee/eng), as well as to Nizhni
Novgorod (GOJ) and Samara
(KUF) in the Russia Federation
(http://www.airportnn.ru/en/passazhiram and
http://uwww.aero/en/airport_information_2).
In mid-April 2013, Australia's Qantas (QF/QFA) will discontinue
its direct flights to FRA, which will be served in the future via
Dubai (DXB) in cooperation with
Emirates (EK/UAE). Because of the civil war in Syria and the resulting EU ban on Syrian
flights since the middle of August
2012, the route from FRA to Aleppo and Damascus has been discontinued. Frankfurt
Airport accounts for 64.5 percent of the total international
traffic handled by Germany's 16
coordinated civilian airports. Due to difficult economic framework
conditions, airlines have reduced their flight offerings for the
summer timetable. Compared to last year's summer schedule, the
number of passenger flights at FRA will slip by 1.3 percent.
However, the average number of seats offered per aircraft will
increase to more than 170.
In the volatile cargo business, the number of freighter
departures per week will drop by 1.3 percent, reflecting ongoing
uncertainty in the global economy. With its 62 percent market
share, FRA continues to offer the greatest number of
intercontinental air cargo connections to and from Germany (150 flight departures per week) and
to serve as the primary logistics hub for German industry. A total
of 27 cargo carriers will fly freighters via FRA to 78 destinations
in 40 countries.
Passengers and other airport users can find further information
about the latest FRA Timetable on the Internet at:
http://www.frankfurt-airport.com (select "Flights" section).
Interactive and PDF versions of Frankfurt Airport's pocket
timetable brochure as well as different versions of the FRA App,
including in Chinese, can also be downloaded.
For Further Information, Please Contact:
Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide
Robert Payne - International
Spokesman and Head of International Press/PR & External
Activities Team, Press Office (UKM-PS), Corporate Communications,
60547 Frankfurt, Germany; Tel.:
+49-69-690-78547; E-mail: r.payne@fraport.de; Internet:
http://www.fraport.com;
http://www.airportcarbonaccreditation.org
SOURCE Fraport AG