Frankfurt International Airport

The Frankfurt International Airport (IATA: FRA, ICAO: EDDF) (German: Rhein-Main-Flughafen or Flughafen Frankfurt am Main) is located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is the largest airport in Germany and the second or third-largest in Europe (depending on which data is used), serving as an important hub for international flights from around the world. It is run by Fraport AG. The southern side of the airport, until late 2005, was known as Rhein-Main Air Base, an airlift base for the United States.

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IATA - ICAO - German - Frankfurt am Main, Germany - Airport - Fraport AG - 2005 - Rhein-Main Air Base - United States

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Frankfurt International is a hub of Lufthansa, the German flag carrier. Because of undercapacity in Frankfurt, Lufthansa divides traffic between Frankfurt and Munich's Franz Josef Strauß International Airport when possible.

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Lufthansa - Munich - Franz Josef Strauß International Airport

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Frankfurt International currently serves more destinations than London's Heathrow International Airport, but in terms of passenger traffic Frankfurt International is third in Europe, behind London's Heathrow Airport and Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport.

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Heathrow International Airport - Charles de Gaulle Airport

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• Passenger traffic at Frankfurt International Airport in 2004 was 51,098,271 http://www.aci.aero/cda/aci/display/main/aci_content.jsp?zn=aci&cp=1-5-54_9_2__, compared with 67,344,054 at Heathrow Airport, and 51,260,363 at Charles de Gaulle Airport.
• In terms of plane movement, Frankfurt was second in Europe with 477,475 planes http://www.aci.aero/cda/aci/display/main/aci_content.jsp?zn=aci&cp=1-5-54-57_9_2__, between Charles de Gaulle Airport (525,660) and Heathrow (475,999).
• In terms of cargo traffic, Frankfurt was also second with 1,838,894 metric tonnes (2,027,034 US tons) http://www.aci.aero/cda/aci/display/main/aci_content.jsp?zn=aci&cp=1-5-54-190_9_2__, just behind Charles de Gaulle Airport (1,876,900 metric tonnes), but ahead of Heathrow (1,412,033 metric tonnes).

Nevertheless, there are plans to expand Frankfurt Airport with a fourth runway and a new Terminal 3, and to modify the airport to be able to service the new Airbus A-380 plane, by building a large A380 maintenance facility near the former U.S. Air Base. After Dubai (with forty-three A380s), the airport will be the base for the second-largest A380-fleet in the world (up to fifteen A380s).

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