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Frankfurt Airport (IATA:
FRA, ICAO: EDDF) (German:
Flughafen Frankfurt am Main,
also known as Rhein-Main-
Flughafen) is a major
international airport located
in Frankfurt, the fifth-largest city of
Germany and one of the world's leading
financial centres. It is operated by Fraport
and serves as the main hub for Lufthansa
including Lufthansa CityLine and Lufthansa
Cargo as well as Condor and AeroLogic. The
airport covers an area of 2,000 hectares
Frankfurt Airport in 1936, with several Ju 52/3m and Fw 200 of
Deutsche
Lufthansa
(4,942 acres) of land and features two
passenger terminals with a capacity of
approximately 65 million passengers per
year, four runways and extensive logistics
and maintenance facilities.
Frankfurt Airport is by far the busiest airport by passenger traffic in Germany as well as
the 4th busiest in Europe after London Heathrow Airport, Paris–Charles de Gaulle Airport
and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The airport is also the 12th busiest worldwide by total
number of passengers in 2015, with 61.032 million passengers using the airport in 2015,
an increase of 2.5% from 2014. It also had a freight throughput of 2.076 million metric
tonnes in 2015 and is the busiest airport in Europe by cargo traffic. As of summer 2017,
Frankfurt Airport serves 293 destinations, making it the airport with the most direct
routes in the world.
The southern side of the airport ground was home to the Rhein-Main Air Base, which
was a major air base for the United States from 1947 until 2005, when the air base was
closed and the property was acquired by Fraport. In 2016 passengers at the airport fell
0.4% to 60,792,308 down from 61.032 million in 2015.
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