Frankfurt Airport (FRA, EDDF)

Lighting system and signs for EDDF

🔗 Mon, 26 Feb 2024
— @E.M at Frankfurt Airport, Germany Reply

could someone help me and tell me where I could find the types of RWY and taxiway lights and the infos about sings for EDDF all RWYs and all taxiways?

Frankfurt Airport

🔗 Sun, 06 Nov 2022
— @Silvanus_Tauris at Frankfurt Airport, Germany Reply

Frankfurt Airport 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 2,300 hectares of land and features two passenger terminals with capacity for approximately 65 million passengers per year; four runways; and extensive logistics and maintenance facilities.

Frankfurt Airport is the busiest airport by passenger traffic in Germany as well as the 4th busiest in Europe after London–Heathrow, Paris–Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The airport is also the 13th busiest worldwide by total number of passengers in 2016, with 60.786 million passengers using the airport in 2016. In 2017, Frankfurt Airport handled 64.5 million passengers and nearly 70 million in 2018. 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 more than 300 destinations in 5 continents, 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. The airport celebrated its 80th anniversary in July 2016.

Frankfurt Airport (FRA) - Arrivals and Departures

🔗 Thu, 08 Aug 2019
— Anonymous Flyer at Frankfurt Airport, Germany Reply

Check out arrivals and departures time tables from Munich Airport:

Frankfurt Airport (FRA) - Arrivals

https://flightradar.live/en/flights/eur/de/frankfurt-airport-fra-arrivals/

Frankfurt Airport (FRA) - Departures

https://flightradar.live/en/flights/eur/de/frankfurt-airport-fra-departures/

Watch the Munich Airport airtraffic in real-time:

https://flightradar.live/flugradar/eu/flugradar-frankfurt-am-main/

(no subject)

🔗 Tue, 20 Jun 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Frankfurt Airport, Germany Reply

Bolt here come

busyness

🔗 Fri, 04 Feb 2011
— Anonymous Flyer at Frankfurt Airport, Germany Reply

it is busyy

Free coffee and hot chocolate

🔗 Mon, 15 Mar 2010
— @david at Frankfurt Airport, Germany Reply

Lufthansa supplies free self-serve coffee and hot chocolate in their waiting area. The cups are tiny, but you can get as many refills as you want, and the machine makes a wide variety of coffee types. If only they offered free WiFi as well ...

History: Rhein-Main Air Base

🔗 Tue, 05 Feb 2008
— @david at Frankfurt Airport, Germany Reply

The southern half of the field was originally the Rhein-Main Air Base, which was the main hub for U.S. military airlifts in and out of Europe (it closed in 2005). It was also one of the main departure points for the Berlin Airlift, serving as the principal C-54 depot.

Very efficient

🔗 Wed, 18 Jul 2007
— @Bonnie at Frankfurt Airport, Germany Reply

Like many things in Germany, this airport was efficient. Visited it in 1991, first time on the Continent, and I was shocked to see peach-fuzz faced boys in uniform casually holding Uzis, leaning against a wall keeping an eye on everyone.

I was disappointed not to get a stamp on my Canadian passport, as the customs officials just waved us through, possibly glancing at the cover of my passport with its regal coat of arms and assuming I was British, and therefore an EU citizen.