Room for Business Success.

If you look at the figures, you'll quickly see why Frankfurt Airport City ranks among the world's most important air traffic hubs:

History
Business Data
FRA in an International Comparison
Workforce
Largest Operations

History

1924: Founding of the company "Südwestdeutschen Luftverkehrs AG"
1936: The "Rhine-Main Airfield" begins operating
1949: System of parallel takeoff and landing runways finished
1954: Renamed "Flughafen Frankfurt/Main AG" (FAG)
1972: Terminal 1 and underground railway station open
1984: Takeoff runway 18 west begins operating
1994: Terminal 2 and the Sky Line elevated railway connecting it to Terminal 1 open
1997: - Start of operation of the FAG cargo handling facilities in CargoCity South
          - Inauguration of Pier D
          - Sky Line extended westward
1999: ICE train station begins operating
2000: Renamed Fraport AG
2001: Fraport AG takes its stock public
2002: Connection to the new ICE railway route to Cologne
2004: Rezoning decision to allow the A380 hangar in the southern part of the
          airport premises
2005: - First airport compatibility (handling) tests for the A380
          - U.S. Rhein-Main Air Base closes
2006: For the first time, FRA handles more than two-million metric tons of airfreight
          in a single year
2007: Construction of Airrail Center Frankfurt begins on the rooftop of the
          Long-distance Train Station  
        

 

Business Data

With about 70,000 people working here, Frankfurt Airport is Germany's single largest place of employment, ahead of Volkswagen in Wolfsburg.

Its stock, worth 914.8 million euros, is divided up as follows (af of March 2007):

• State of Hesse: 31.65%
• Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main Holding GmbH: 20.21%
• Julius Bär Holding AG: 5.1%
• Deutsche Lufthansa AG: 9.98%
• The Capital Group Companies, Inc.: 5.07%
• Artisan Partners: 3.88%
• Free float: 24.11% (including employee-held shares)

The supervisory board has 20 members, 10 of which are appointed by the owners while the other ten represent the workforce.

 

FRA in an International Comparison

Passenger ranking 2006:

 1. Atlanta                  
2. Chicago                
3. London Heathrow 
4. Tokyo Haneda      
5. Los Angeles         
6. Dallas                   
7. Paris CDG            
8. Frankfurt               
9. Peking                  
10.Denver                 

 

Workforce of Fraport AG (at the FRA site, not counting subsidiaries and holdings)

Total employees: 12,735    (as of 12/2006)

Breakdown:

Permanent staff: 11.107
Apprentices: 339
Temporary staff: 754
Semi-retired: 535

• thereof: 69 percent working in shift operations
• Foreign nationals employed by Fraport AG: 2,122
  
  

Largest operations (at the FRA site)

1) Deutsche Lufthansa AG
2) Fraport AG
3) LSG Lufthansa Service GmbH
4) German Federal Police Frankfurt Airport
5) International Mail Center

There are a total of 500 different enterprises and places of work at the airport.

source: Fraport AG