Frankfurt Airport
Frankfurt Airport is Germany?s largest airport with more than 60m passengers and over 2.1m metric tons of cargo in 2015. The prominent position of Frankfurt Airport in this worldwide competition is mainly due to its hub function as well as the location in the heart of Europe. Frankfurt Airport serves as a gateway to Germany and the region of Rhine-Main. Because Frankfurt Airport optimally links road, rail, and air travel, it serves a huge catchment area that is unmatched anywhere else in Europe. Its central location on the European continent, direct flights to a large number of destinations and the fact that transfer passengers make up more than half of the total all contribute to making FRA an important and dynamic hub.
The IATA (International Air Transport Association) and The ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) code of Frankfurt Airport are FRA and EDDF respectively.
Frankfurt Airport is a foremost international airport located in Frankfurt, the fifth-largest city of Germany and one of the world's leading financial centers. The airport is controlled by Fraport and serves as the main hub for Lufthansa. These includes Lufthansa CityLine, Lufthansa Cargo, Condor and AeroLogic. The airport covers an area of 2,000 hectares (4,942 acres) of land and has 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. 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. The airport celebrated its 80th anniversary in July 2016.
Some significant places near Frankfurt Airport are;
- Sheraton Frankfurt Airport Hotel
- Restaurant Flavours
- Yangtse Restaurant
- ALEX Frankfurt the Squaire
- Piano Bar Ciao
- Gute Stute
- The Comedy Pub
- Gardens Bar
- Sofis Bar
- The Florist Arms
- Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge
- Air France Lounge
- Cathay Pacific First Class Lounge
- DB Lounge
- Emirates Lounge
- Ethiad Lounge
- Frankfurt Airport Club
- Iberia Lounge
- Japan Airlines Sakura Lounge
- Lufthansa Senator Lounge
- Lufthansa Business Lounge West
- Lufthansa Business Lounge Ost
- Lufthansa First Class Lounge
- Lufthansa Welcome Lounge
- VIP Lounge
- K?fer'S Frankfurt Airport
- Sheraton Frankfurt Airport Hotel
- Deli Bros
- Park Inn by Radisson Frankfurt Airport Hotel
- Hausmann's
- Holiday Inn Frankfurt Airport
- Deutsch
- The Owl #8 - Burger & Bar
- Paulaner in the Squaire
- Restaurant Unterschweinstiege
- Heberer's Traditional Bakery
- Adria Airways
- Aegean Airlines
- Aer Lingus
- Aeroflot
- Air Alg?rie
- Air Arabia Maroc
- Air Astana
- airBaltic
- Air Berlin
- Air Canada
- Air China
- Air Europa
- Air France
- Air India
- Air Moldova
- Air Namibia
- Air Serbia
- Air VIA
- Alitalia Rome
- Alitalia
- All Nippon Airways
- Asiana Airlines Seoul?Incheon
- Austrian Airlines
- Azores Airlines Ponta Delgada
- Belavia Minsk
- BMI Regional
- British Airways
- British Airways
- Bulgaria Air
- Bulgarian Air Charter
- Cathay Pacific
- China Airlines
- China Eastern Airlines
- China Southern Airlines
- Condor
- Croatia Airlines
- Czech Airlines
- Delta Air Lines
- EgyptAir
- Emirates
- Ethiopian Airlines
- Etihad Airways
- Finnair Helsinki
- Finnair
- Gulf Air
- Iberia
- Icelandair
- Iran Air Tehran
- Iraqi Airways
- Japan Airlines
- KLM
- Korean Air
- Kuwait Airways
- LATAM Brasil
- LATAM Chile
- LOT Polish Airlines
- Lufthansa
- Lufthansa Regional
- MIAT Mongolian Airlines
- Middle East Airlines
- Montenegro Airlines
- Niki
- Nouvelair
- Oman Air
- Onur Air
- Pegasus Airlines
- Qatar Airways Doha
- Royal Air Maroc
- Royal Jordanian
- Ryanair
- Saudia
- Scandinavian Airlines
- Singapore Airlines
- Somon Air
- South African Airways Johannesburg
- SunExpress
- SunExpress Deutschland
- Swiss International Air Lines
- TAP Portugal
- TAROM
- Thai Airways
- Tunisair
- Turkish Airlines
- Turkmenistan Airlines Ashgabat
- Ukraine International Airlines Kiev
- United Airlines
- Uzbekistan Airways
- Vietnam Airlines
- Wizz Air
- WOW air
- Frankfurt-Hahn Airport
- Zweibr?cken Airport
- Baden Airpark
- Cologne Bonn Airport
- Saarbr?cken Airport
- Kassel Calden Airport
- Mannheim City Airport
- Zweibr?cken Airport
- Baden Airpark
- Cologne Bonn Airport
- Saarbr?cken Airport
- Rhein-Main Air Force Base
- Frankfurt Egelsbach Airport
- Griesheim Airport
- Mainz Finthen Airport
- Heidelberg Airport
- Siegerland
- Frankfurt to Chicago (FRA - ORD)
- Frankfurt to New York (FRA - JFK)
- Frankfurt to Denver (FRA - DEN)
- Frankfurt to Atlanta (FRA - ATL)
- Frankfurt to San Francisco (FRA - SFO)
- Frankfurt to Miami (FRA - MIA)
- Frankfurt to Los Angeles (FRA - LAX)
- Frankfurt to Las Vegas (FRA - LAS)
- Frankfurt to Houston (FRA - IAH)
- Frankfurt to Newark (FRA - EWR)
- Lufthansa
- Condor Flugdienst
- Continental Airlines
- United Airlines
- Air Berlin
- Scandinavian Airlines
- Air France
- Air Canada
- BMI
- Brussels Airlines
- LOT Polish Airlines
- American Airlines
- Delta Air Lines
- KLM Air
- Air Berlin
- Turkish Airlines
- British Airways