with 9M-Report 1 January 2 February 3 March 4 April 5 May 6 June 7 July 8 August 9 September 10 October 11 November 12 December Traffic category Passengers (arr.+dep.+transit) Airfreight (metric tons) (arr.+dep.+tr.) Airmail (metric tons) (arr.+dep.+tr.) Aircraft Movements (arr.+dep.) MTOWs (metric tons) (arr.) Traffic Units (arr.+dep.+tr.)* Traffic Units (arr.+dep.)** Cargo (metric tons) (arr.+dep.+tr.) September absolute Δ% absolute Δ% 6,625,143 6.3% 52,971,865 8.4% 178,131-1.3% 1,575,255-1.1% 6,911-3.7% 65,046 8.4% 45,950 5.7% 386,048 8. 2,813,965 4. 23,811,351 5.3% 8,475,562 4.5% 69,374,879 6.1% 8,439,859 4.6% 68,998,473 6. 185,042-1.4% 1,640,301-0.8% Traffic Units (TU) are the combined annual values of passengers, cargo, and mail expressed in metric tons. 1 TU = 1 Pax (assessed at 100 kg), or 100 kg of freight or 100 kg of mail. Cargo refers to the sum of airfreight and airmail volumes, all in metric tons. However, due to measuring airfreight and airmail in kilograms, rounding diffrences may appear. * Fraport internal definition: arriving+departing+transit ** As per ADV-definition: arriving+departing. Prepared by UEW-MF, 15.10. Fraport AG, Market & Trend Research (UEW-MF), D-60547 Frankfurt; Contact: Roger Heil, Tel. +49-69-690-71047.
Page 2 Passengers September 6,625,143 52,971,865 6.3% 8.4% Monthly volume (arr.+dep.+transit; in 000) 7000 6500 6000 5500 5000 4500 4000 3500 3000 Change year-on-year (arr.+dep.+transit) 25% 2 15% 5% Monthly volume by region (arr.+dep.; in 000) 4000 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 Change year-on-year by region (arr.+dep.) 2 15% 5% -5% - Regional evaluation by destination; source: BIAF-MAFO September 17 September 18 Δ% Jan-September 18 Δ% September 18 For the 13th time in a row there was a new record passenger count for the month of September. With a growth rate of 6.3 % and a total of 6.8 million passengers there were about 395,000 passengers more than in September. Without strike- and weather-related flight cancellations the growth rate would have even been 6.6 %. There were over 200,000 passengers each day and over 230,000 on four days. The big growth rate was also based on the start of the fall school vacation period at the end of the month. As expected, the growth dynamics slowed down as the year progressed because last year more scheduled passenger services (flights) for the winter season were already offered in September. Regarding domestic traffic the passenger count mainly increased due to more travel to and from Berlin (+17.9 %). Despite more passenger services (flights) being offered, the discontinuation of flight operations by Air Berlin effected more transfer traffic via. For the first time in the European traffic did not have a double-digit growth rate (+9.6 %). The positive influence of more passenger services (flights) being offered is slowly losing its impact. Nonetheless, traffic to and from Southeast and East Europe was up by 16.6 and 13.1 %, respectively. Greece (+20.1 %) continues to be on a successful course. Turkey (+17.5 %) continues to make a big recovery. In contrast, growth rates connected to South Europe were down somewhat. This had been expected. However, the growth rate was still around 10 percent. Intercontinental traffic continued to have the weakest growth rate with a plus of 2.1 %. Traffic connected to Asia was down by 3.5 %. This is mainly due to less traffic to and from China, Hong Kong and Korea. In the Middle East all markets recorded fewer passengers except for Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates. In contrast, North Africa is experiencing an upswing. Egypt (+26.6 %) and Tunisia (+33.9 %) continue to report a major growth regarding the number of passengers on aircraft to and from these countries.
Page 3 Cargo (t) September 185,042 1,640,301-1.4% -0.8% Monthly volume (arr.+dep.+transit; in 000) 220 210 200 190 180 170 160 150 140 130 120 Change year-on-year (arr.+dep.+transit) 12% 8% 6% 4% 2% -2% -4% -6% -8% Monthly volume by region (arr.+dep.; in 000) 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 Change year-on-year by region (arr.+dep.) 2 - -2-3 -4 Regional evaluation by destination; source: BIAF-MAFO September 17 September 18 Δ% Jan-September 18 Δ% September 18 With 185,000 mt air cargo traffic is 1.4 % down in compared to the previous year. Airfreight was down by 1.3 % at 178,100 mt and airmail down by 3.7 % at 6,900 mt. The development of air cargo traffic is in line with economic indicators. Growth of the worldwide manufacturing sector has slowed down. Consequently, the growth rates for production and incoming orders are at a two-year low and the international trade streams have declined in September for the first time since June 2016. The weakening export business has its impact on, too. Outbound airfreight tonnage is down by 3.4 %. The cargo space on passenger and freighter aircraft is being utilized to a lesser degree than a year ago (based on tonnage). The airfreight tonnage on freighter aircraft is up by 1.1 % and the airfreight tonnage on passenger aircraft down by 4.9 %. Consequently, the share of airfreight on freighter aircraft is up by 1.4 percentage points to a count of 63.2 %. Looking at regions one notices that the amounts are up for the two biggest airfreight markets. China +11.2 % and USA up 3.7 %. Together these two markets make up about one-third of the entire airfreight market. The substantial declines connected to airfreight traffic via Moscow cannot be compensated. European traffic is down considerably with a minus of 20.2 %. Concerning all other regions only the volume connected to Africa is below the level recorded last year. The regions Far East (+0.6 %), Middle East (+6.7 %), North America (+3.2 %), Latin America (+7.6 %) are all on the plus side.
Page 4 Aircraft Movements Monthly volume (arr.+dep.; in 000) 48 46 44 42 40 September 45,950 5.7% 386,048 8. Change year-on-year (arr.+dep.) 2 15% 5% 38 36 34 32-5% - Monthly volume by region (arr.+dep.; in 000) 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Change year-on-year by region (arr.+dep.) 2 15% 5% -5% - September17 September18 Regional evaluation by previous/next en-route stop; source: BIAF-MAFO Δ% Jan-September18 Δ% September18 The count of aircraft takeoffs and landings was up by 5.7 % to 45,950 compared to last year. This is a new record for the month of September. The old record dated September was surpassed by about 2,500 aircraft movements. Consequently, the trend towards new records in this sector continued this September. The growth rate would have even been around 6 % had there not been some cancellations due to strikes and bad weather conditions. There were over 1,500 aircraft movements on 29 days in. There were 5.9 % more domestic flights in September. This growth is mainly based on more passenger services (flights) being offered to and from Berlin and Düsseldorf. Regarding European traffic (+7.8 %) all regions recorded positive growth rates. This month East Europe is the leader. However, South and Southeast Europe achieved double-digit growth rates once again. The growth seen for East Europe is based on new connections with the Ukraine (Kiev) and Rumania. Regarding intercontinental passenger traffic a remarkable growth rate of 3.1 % was accomplished in. The growth generators included the North African countries Tunisia and Egypt, Middle America (San Jose, Costa Rica), USA (Phoenix) and Canada (Halifax). Only traffic to and from Asia was on the decline. This is mainly due to less passengers on flights to and from Saudi-Arabia and India (Puna). Freighter aircraft flights developed below average in September (+3.9 %) compared to the overall offer of passenger services (flights). Intercontinental airfreight traffic continues its positive development with a growth rate of 10.8 %. The main growth generators are the USA, Egypt and China whereas the European airfreight connections experienced a decline.
Page 5 Maximum Take Off Weights / MTOW (t) September 2,813,965 23,811,351 4. 5.3% Monthly volume (arr.+dep.; in 000) 3000 2900 2800 2700 2600 2500 2400 2300 2200 2100 2000 1900 Change year-on-year (arr.+dep.) 14% 12% 8% 6% 4% 2% -2% -4% -6% -8% MTOWs in are 4.0 % above September with about 2.8 million tons. A new monthly record was set for the seventh month in a row. The previous record for a September month () was surpassed by approximately 100,000 tons. The growth rate would have even been 4.2 % without the cancellations due to strikes and bad weather conditions. Airlines continue to grow via smaller aircraft. Consequently, the average MTOW per aircraft landing declines by 1.9 t to 122.5 t. The higher offer of seats on aircraft was taken advantage of in September and the seat utilization rate was 83.4 % which is precisely the same rate recorded in September. The quotient passengers per passenger flight was 153.7 this September and approximately at the same level as in September. Special Information The seat load factor in was at 83.4% versus 83.4% in the same month last year. The share of widebody aircraft was at 20.8% (September 17: 21.3%). The ratio 'passengers per passengerflight (sheduled & charter)' was at 153.7 vs. 153.9 in the same month last year. Compared to the same month last year the flight punctuality rate decreased by 1.2%-points and was at 66.3%. Seat Load Factor 85% 83% 81% 79% 77% 75% 73% 71% 69% 67% 65% Widebody-Share 3 29% 28% 27% 26% 25% 24% 23% 22% 21% 2
Comments January to / 9M-Report Page 5a Passengers 52,971,865 8.4% During the first 9 months of the year the passenger count increased by 8.4 %. With an absolute record growth of over 4.1 million passengers the passenger count reached nearly 53 million. This peak value was based on new records for each month of the year. The highest monthly result ever was accomplished in July with 6.87 million passengers. The growth would have even been 0.3 percentage points higher if not for flight cancellations due to strikes and bad weather conditions affecting approximately 136,000 passengers. The unusual high monthly growth rates at Frankfurt Airport resulted in over 6 million passengers in the months May through September. Since July the standard daily passenger count surpassed 200,000 for the summer season. During the third quarter of this year there was only one day with a passenger count below 200,000 due to Terminal 1 having to be evacuated. On 143 days so far this year the passenger count was above 200,000. On 13 days the passenger count even exceeded 230,000. The highest passenger count was on July 29 with over 230,000. An extensive increase of offered passenger services (flights), which goes back to the winter season /, caused this exceptional growth. New destinations and higher flight frequencies resulted in a concurrent increase of demand. There were numerous additional passenger services (flights) for traffic to and from regions in South, Southeast and East Europe. Consequently, the demand for travel to and from the Mediterranean region also increased dynamically outside the vacation period. All destinations recorded double-digit growth rates with the exception of the Balearic Islands. There was also far more travel to and from vacation spots in Southeast Europe (Greece, Turkey, Croatia). Regarding East Europe the additional offered passenger services (flights) resulted in double-digit growth rates for Bulgaria, Poland, Rumania and Hungary. Outside Europe there was also substantial growth connected to tourism locations in North Africa, specifically Egypt (+26.9 %) and Tunisia (+24.6 %). In the Far East Thailand and Vietnam experienced major growth. A noticeable upswing for the Caribbean region is not seen until September. The growth of intercontinental traffic (+2.4 %) was comparatively weak. The regions South America, South Africa and the Far East recorded slight declines. In the Far East traffic to and from China, Korea and Singapore declined. Only North and Central Africa had a positive development outside Europe. The slight positive growth of intercontinental traffic is mainly based on the increase of tourism traffic to and North Africa. Domestic traffic recorded a noticeable high growth rate of 4.7 %. All high volume connections reported a growth rate. The Berlin connection (+15.5 %) made the biggest contribution to the positive development. The discontinuation of operations by Air Berlin affected the market negatively. However, airlines in the low cost segment were able to fill the gap left behind by Air Berlin. The lack of intercontinental flights in Berlin effected that more passengers had to continue their travel via Frankfurt.
Comments January to / 9M-Report Page 5b Cargo 1,640,301-0.8% Air Cargo traffic up to the end of was 0.8 % below the level for the same period in. The count was about 1.64 million mt. Airfreight at 1.58 million mt was about 17,500 mt below the count for the same period in (-1.1 %). In contrast, airmail at 65,000 mt was up by 8.4 % and at the highest level since 10 years. Airmail profited from increasing E-Commerce business. The economic picture during the first nine months of was still quite positive. However, the dynamics started to slow down. The cargo development at had a similar development. The first quarter of still ended with a slight growth of 0.7 %. Quarter 2 experienced a decline of 0.5 % and quarter 3 even 2.4 %. Handling problems connected to air cargo helped to increase the minus by the end of quarter 3. The declining export business also impacted. During the course of the amount of outbound cargo fell more and more ending in a total minus of 2.7 % by the end of the first nine months. During the first nine months of the amount of outbound cargo was still the growth generator. The decreasing demand resulted in lower utilization of airfreight capacities. Despite a low load factor for the freighter aircraft the increased offer of main deck capacities resulted in an increase of cargo on freighter aircraft (including transit) by 1.1 %. Bellyload cargo was down by a substantial 4.6 %. The airfreight on freighter aircraft was up to a new record value of 63.0 % at the end of the first nine months. This is 0.7 percentage points higher than the old record in the year 2016. If taking a look at the key figure freight ton kilometer (FTK) a growth was achieved over against the "pure" focus on tonnage. This difference is especially seen if looking to the northeast direction (from Frankfurt). Tonnage on routes to and from Moscow (with continuation to the Far East) was way down. Direct tonnage to and from the airfreight markets China (+8.3 %) and Japan (+4.8 %) recorded significant gains. Additional offered services (flights) in the airfreight sector effected a dynamic growth of cargo connected to the airfreight market China. Regarding traffic to and from the very important airfreight market Japan the freighter aircraft capacities were increased during the first quarter due to two more weekly freighter aircraft flights to and from Osaka. There were declines connected South and Southeast Asia. India (-5.2 %) and Thailand (-6.6 %) are the countries with the biggest declines. Regarding the Middle East (+4.7 %) more freight was moved on routes to and from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. There was a decline of 3.6 % connected to Africa (4 % of the total airfreight handled). There were major declines regarding the tonnage connected to Kenia (-25.2 %) and South Africa (-17.7 %). Due to the very big decline of airfreight connected to Moscow the amount connected to Europe was down by 20.9 %. The markets west of Frankfurt achieved substantial growth. Due to the airfreight connected to the USA the North American cargo traffic was up by 2.1 %. Freighter aircraft traffic was noticeably on the plus side. Concerning Latin America (+11.3 %) the markets Argentina, Brazil and Columbia were the growth generators.
Comments January to / 9M-Report Page 5c Aircraft Movements Maximum Take Off Weights / MTOW (t) 386,048 8. 23,811,351 5.3% During the first 9 months of the year the count of aircraft movements was up by 8 % to a new record of 386,000. Starting April a new record was set for each following month. There were more than 1,500 aircraft movements at Frankfurt Airport on 104 days during the first 9 months of the year. During the same period last year this only happened on 2 days. The growth rate would have even been 8.9 % had it not been for flight cancellations due to strikes and bad weather conditions. MTOWs experienced a growth rate of 5.3 % and a total count of about 23.8 million tons. This was also a new record at. The growth rate would have even been 5.8 % had it not been for flight cancellations due to strikes and bad weather conditions. Except for February a new MTOW record was set for each single month. Nonetheless, due to airlines using smaller aircraft the MTOW development was below average compared to the development of aircraft movements. As result the quotient MTOW/Landing declined. Compared to, it fell by a further 3.2 t to an average of 123.4 t per landing. This development started at the beginning of because airlines had completed adding big aircraft to their aircraft pool and the aircraft delivered after that were smaller. The growth of the passenger count was higher during the first nine months of than the increase of offered passenger services (flights) by the airlines. Consequently, the quotient passengers per passenger aircraft flight increased slightly to 146.5. During the first quarter of a new record was set. During the second and third quarters the count dropped slightly compared to. During the first and third quarter the seat load factor developed positively and at 80 % during the first nine months of it was slightly above the count in. Domestic passenger aircraft flights were up by 5.5 % compared to. The traffic to and from Berlin was the main growth generator. The offered passenger services (flights) was up by 11.4 % with focus on more tourism locations in South, East and southeast Europe. Many countries in these regions achieved double-digit growth rates. The leaders were Greece, Italy, Portugal, Malta, Hungary, Moldova and Rumania. The new destinations Genoa (Italy) and Pamplona (Spain) were among the leaders. Intercontinental traffic achieved a moderate growth rate of 1.6 % during the first nine months of. Offered passenger services (flights) to Africa increased relatively (+9.4 %) and absolutely (+1,079) most of all. The growth generators were Egypt and Tunisia with both having a big plus. There was a decline of offered passenger services (flights) connected to Asia (-1.0 %). Regarding the Middle East there were more declines of the number of flights to and from Saudi-Arabia (e.g. the discontinuation of the connection to Dammam) than the total growth of flights to and from China, Japan, Kazakhstan and Vietnam. Both the passenger traffic to and from North and Latin America increased almost proportional to the total intercontinental traffic. Canada increased above average. However, this was offset somewhat by the minor growth rate regarding traffic to and from the USA. Up to the middle of the year there was a decline of offered passenger services (flights) to and from Latin America. However, this has been made up by new offered passenger services (flights) to and from Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and Brazil. Freighter aircraft movements developed positively (+3.2 %) during the first nine months of the year. However, this development was below average compared to the number of all aircraft movements. The MTOWs of freighter aircraft movements were somewhat higher (+4.0 %). European traffic to and from Moscow experienced a major decline. Traffic to and from America and Asia was way up due to the capacity growth connected to the USA and China.
Page 6 Tables Month Aircraft Movements Passengers Air Freight (t) Air Mail (t) abs. Δ% abs. Δ% abs. Δ% abs. Δ% Type of traffic Total (civil aviation traffic) arr.+dep.+tr. 45,950 5.7% 6,625,143 6.3% 178,131-1.3% 6,911-3.7% arriving 22,974 5.6% 3,341,999 6.1% 86,052 1.1% 3,491 6.5% departing 22,976 5.7% 3,276,094 6.6% 89,242-3.4% 3,391-12.4% arr.+dep. 45,950 5.7% 6,618,093 6.3% 175,295-1.2% 6,882-3.8% transit 7,050 6.2% 2,836-7.6% 29 16. Commercial traffic arr.+dep. 45,389 6.1% 6,617,710 6.3% 175,278-1.2% Scheduled/Charter arr.+dep. 44,939 6.4% 6,616,518 6.4% 175,278-1.2% transit 7,048 6.1% 2,836-7.6% Passenger flights arr.+dep. 43,096 6.5% 6,616,518 6.4% 65,174-4.9% Freighter flights arr.+dep. 1,843 3.9% 110,104 1.1% Mail flights arr.+dep. 0 n.def. 0 n.def. Other traffic arr.+dep. 450-14.4% 1,192-21.2% Non-comercial traffic arr.+dep. 561-21.6% 383-53.8% 16 >10 Ferry flights arr.+dep. 433-8.1% for information only: Air Cargo (t) abs. Δ% arr.+dep.+tr. 185,042-1.4% arr.+dep. (acc. to ACI-definition) 182,177-1.3% Year-to-date Aircraft Movements Passengers Air Freight (t) Air Mail (t) abs. Δ% abs. Δ% abs. Δ% abs. Δ% Type of traffic Total (civil aviation traffic) arr.+dep.+tr. 386,048 8. 52,971,865 8.4% 1,575,255-1.1% 65,046 8.4% arriving 192,978 8. 26,567,150 8.3% 752,694-0.1% 32,012 26.4% departing 193,070 8. 26,327,951 8.4% 792,800-2.7% 32,830-4.5% arr.+dep. 386,048 8. 52,895,101 8.4% 1,545,494-1.5% 64,841 8.6% transit 76,764 11.1% 29,762 21.6% 205-32.1% Commercial traffic arr.+dep. 380,949 8. 52,891,958 8.4% 1,545,401-1.4% Scheduled/Charter arr.+dep. 377,595 8. 52,882,964 8.4% 1,545,401-1.4% transit 76,745 11.2% 29,762 21.6% Passenger flights arr.+dep. 361,550 8.3% 52,882,964 8.4% 579,919-4.6% Freighter flights arr.+dep. 16,045 3.2% 965,482 0.5% Mail flights arr.+dep. 0 n.def. 0 n.def. Other traffic arr.+dep. 3,354-0.7% 8,994 5.2% Non-comercial traffic arr.+dep. 5,099 10.6% 3,143-10.9% 92 >10 Ferry flights arr.+dep. 3,949 14.8% for information only: Air Cargo (t) abs. Δ% arr.+dep.+tr. 1,640,301-0.8% arr.+dep. (acc. to ACI-definition) 1,610,335-1.1%