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Frankfurt Airport , known in [German language as Rhein-Main-Flughafen or Flughafen Frankfurt am Main, is located near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is the largest airport in Germany, and third largest in Europe, serving as an important hub for international flights from around the world. It is run by Fraport. The southern side of the airport, Rhein-Main Air Base, was a major airlift base for the United States from 1947 until late 2005. It is located 12 kilometres from the Frankfurt city centre.

Frankfurt is a hub of Lufthansa, the German national carrier. Because of over-capacity in Frankfurt, Lufthansa divides traffic between Frankfurt and Munich's Munich International Airport when possible.

Frankfurt currently serves more destinations (265 non-stop destinations) than London's London Heathrow Airport, but in terms of passenger traffic Frankfurt is third in Europe, behind London's Heathrow Airport and Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport.

Nevertheless, there are plans to expand Frankfurt Airport with a fourth runway and a new Terminal 3. Modifications to the airport to make it Airbus A380 compatible have already started, including the building of a large A380 maintenance facility near the former U.S. Air Base which is not yet complete. The work on the fourth runway has been delayed several times due to environmental concerns. A final decision about zoning is expected for 2007, and the runway could be in operation by 2010.

In September 2007, Germany authorities arrested three suspected Islamic terrorists for plotting a "massive" terror attack, which posed "an imminent threat" to Frankfurt Airport and the US Air Force base in Ramstein Air Base. 'Massive' Terror Plot Foiled In Germany (Sky News)

History The Rhein-Main Airport and Airship Base opened in 1936 and was the second-largest airport in Germany (after Tempelhof Airport in Berlin) through World War II. After the war, it served as the main West German operations base for the Berlin Airlift.

The airport did not emerge as a major international hub until 1972, when its new passenger terminal (now Terminal 1) opened.

Structure and function Frankfurt Airport has two main passenger terminals, which are connected by corridors as well as by people movers and buses.

Terminal 1 Terminal 1 opened on 14 March 1972, called Terminal Mitte (Central Terminal) back then for being in the middle of the runways, and between the original terminal in the east and the cargo area in the west. It was designed in a modern style for the period, with polished silver interiors and corrugated walls.

The terminal is functionally divided in three levels, the departure level in the upper deck with the check-in counters and the arrival level with the baggage claim areas at ground level, and underneath a distribution level with access to the (regional) train station and the underground and multistorey parkings. Departure and arrivals levels have both separate street approaches. A bus station is located at arrivals level. Parallell to the terminal, on the other side of the street, are a hotel and an office building ("FAC" = Frankfurt Airport Center). The three level deep underground parkings are beneath those buildings. The tracks of the train station run between the terminal as such and the range of office and hotel buildings.

The land side of Terminal 1 is 420 Meter long. Horizontally it is divided into three areas called A, B, and C.

It is divided into three concourses. Lufthansa and its Star Alliance partners currently dominate all of Terminal 1.

Concourse A Concourse A has gates on two levels, with gates numbered A51 through A65 positioned directly above gates numbered A08 through A42 . Passengers checking in at Frankfurt must go through two separate security checkpoints in order to reach gates A60 through A65 where Lufthansa flights to the United States of America depart. Restrooms in Concourse A have a maximum capacity of between one and three people. The concourse has no water fountains, although the water in the toilet sinks is labelled as drinkable.

Concourse B

Concourse C

Terminal 2 image:AirportFrankfurt terminal2.jpgTerminal 2 opened on the 24 October 1994. It is designed to resemble a classical railway station from its landside facade. It is divided into two concourses.

Concourse D image:Frankfurt airport terminal 2 (during takeoff).JPG

Concourse E image:Frankfurt skyline 003.jpg



First Class Terminal Lufthansa maintains a separate First Class Terminal at Frankfurt Airport for the use of first class travel passengers and members of the highest tier of its Miles & More rewards program (but not other Star Alliance programs). The terminal has 200 staff for around 300 passengers per day, and provides individualized security screening and customs facilities, valet parking, a white-linen restaurant, a cigar room and bubble baths. Passengers are driven from the terminal directly to their aircraft by a chaffeured Mercedes-Benz. The commercial success of the FCT at Frankfurt has led Lufthansa to plan the opening of a similar facility at Munich International Airport."A Bubble Bath and a Glass Of Bubbly — at the Airport," Wall Street Journal, July 10, 2007.

Other Features & Amenities Frankfurt has two cargo terminals, North and South, as well as a separate General Aviation Terminal on the south side of the airport. There is also a Sheraton Hotels and Resorts hotel adjacent to Terminal 1. Terminal 1 also has a full-service German Post Office & DHL office open to the public.

Ground transportation To the land side, Frankfurt Airport is well connected with a double railway station and being located directly at one of the most important intersections of Autobahn in Germany, the Bundesautobahn 3 and Bundesautobahn 5.

The Frankfurt (Main) Flughafen Regionalbahnhof has been opened in 1972 together with the Terminal 1. It is located under the street in front of the terminal, two levels below the arrivals level. During most of the day, S-Bahn-trains depart every 15 minutes to the eastwards to the Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof (journey time 11 minutes), the four stations in the central Citytunnel and further to the east of Frankfurt, namely Offenbach and Hanau, and westwards to Rüsselsheim, Mainz and Wiesbaden. The first S-Bahn trains arrive at 4:28h from Frankfurt and Hanau, at 4:29h from Mainz and Wiesbaden, the last ones depart at 1:32h to Frankfurt, and at 0:29h to Wiesbaden and 0:59h to Rüsselsheim. The ticket to Frankfurt costs 3.55 Euro. The ticket must be purchased before going down to the platform, either at vending machines or the Deutsche Bahn ticket counter.

Regional express trains to other destinations like Saarbrücken in the west, Koblenz down the Rhine valley, or Würzburg in the east also call at the regional station, as some long distance trains, especially in the night hours, when the long distance station is closed.

The Frankfurt (Main) Flughafen Fernbahnhof, opened in 1999, is the end point of the new Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line which links Cologne as the gateway to the Ruhrgebiet with southern Germany, allowing speeds up to 300 km/h (186 mph). All InterCityExpress trains between Cologne and southern Germany stop at the Airport train station, taking slighly less than an hour from Cologne to the Airport. About 10 trains per hour depart in all directions.

The station is squeezed in between the Autobahn A3 and the four-lane Bundesstraße B43, linked to Terminal 1 by a building bridging the Autobahn. Arriving railway passengers can check in right at the train station for about 60 airlines.

The tracks are numbered from 1 to 3 in the regional station, from 4 to 7 in the long distance station.

Deutsche Bahn operates the AiRail Service in conjunction with Lufthansa, American Airlines and Emirates Airline. The service operates to Bonn Hauptbahnhof, Köln Hauptbahnhof, Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof, Freiburg Hauptbahnhof, Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe railway station, Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof, Leipzig Hauptbahnhof, Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, Hannover Hauptbahnhof, Mannheim Hauptbahnhof, München Hauptbahnhof, Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof, and Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof.

Various transport companies provide bus services to the airport.

Taxis to the city centre (Hauptwache) cost approximately 25 euro or slightly more, to the main train station about three Euros less.

For passengers coming with their own car, multi-storey parkings, mostly underground, are lined up along the terminals. A long term parking lot is located south of the runways, on the area of the former US military installation, with a shuttle bus to the terminals.

In 2006, 29.5% of the 12'299'192 passengers whose air travel originated in Frankfurt were brought by private car, 27.9% came by rail, 20.4% by taxi, 11.1% parked their car at the airport for the duration of their trip, 5.3% came by bus, and 4.6% arrived with a rental car.Statistical data prepared by Fraport department MVG-MF based on polls conducted in the departure lounges every four days

Incidents In 1969, Ariana Flight 701, a Boeing 727 of Ariana Afghan Airlines was arriving at London Gatwick Airport from Frankfurt when it crashed into a house, killing 50 of the 66 people aboard. Two people died on the ground.

On 22 May 1983 during an airshow at the Rhein-Main Air Base, a Canadian RCAF F-104 Starfighter crashed onto a nearby road, hitting a car and killing all passengers, a vicar's family of 5. The pilot was able to Ejector seat.

In 1988 the first leg of Pan Am Flight 103 (a Boeing 727) took off from Frankfurt. About half of the passengers and baggage changed planes at Heathrow Airport to continue to the U.S. A bomb exploded on the aircraft (Boeing 747) above the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all the passengers on board. The bomb was planted by Libyan terrorists.

See also

References External links
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Frankfurt Airport , known in [German language as Rhein-Main-Flughafen or Flughafen Frankfurt am Main, is located near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is the largest airport in Germany, and third largest in Europe, serving as an important hub for international flights from around the world. It is run by Fraport. The southern side of the airport, Rhein-Main Air Base, was a major airlift base for the United States from 1947 until late 2005. It is located 12 kilometres from the Frankfurt city centre.

Frankfurt is a hub of Lufthansa, the German national carrier. Because of over-capacity in Frankfurt, Lufthansa divides traffic between Frankfurt and Munich's Munich International Airport when possible.

Frankfurt currently serves more destinations (265 non-stop destinations) than London's London Heathrow Airport, but in terms of passenger traffic Frankfurt is third in Europe, behind London's Heathrow Airport and Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport.

Nevertheless, there are plans to expand Frankfurt Airport with a fourth runway and a new Terminal 3. Modifications to the airport to make it Airbus A380 compatible have already started, including the building of a large A380 maintenance facility near the former U.S. Air Base which is not yet complete. The work on the fourth runway has been delayed several times due to environmental concerns. A final decision about zoning is expected for 2007, and the runway could be in operation by 2010.

In September 2007, Germany authorities arrested three suspected Islamic terrorists for plotting a "massive" terror attack, which posed "an imminent threat" to Frankfurt Airport and the US Air Force base in Ramstein Air Base. 'Massive' Terror Plot Foiled In Germany (Sky News)

History The Rhein-Main Airport and Airship Base opened in 1936 and was the second-largest airport in Germany (after Tempelhof Airport in Berlin) through World War II. After the war, it served as the main West German operations base for the Berlin Airlift.

The airport did not emerge as a major international hub until 1972, when its new passenger terminal (now Terminal 1) opened.

Structure and function Frankfurt Airport has two main passenger terminals, which are connected by corridors as well as by people movers and buses.

Terminal 1 Terminal 1 opened on 14 March 1972, called Terminal Mitte (Central Terminal) back then for being in the middle of the runways, and between the original terminal in the east and the cargo area in the west. It was designed in a modern style for the period, with polished silver interiors and corrugated walls.

The terminal is functionally divided in three levels, the departure level in the upper deck with the check-in counters and the arrival level with the baggage claim areas at ground level, and underneath a distribution level with access to the (regional) train station and the underground and multistorey parkings. Departure and arrivals levels have both separate street approaches. A bus station is located at arrivals level. Parallell to the terminal, on the other side of the street, are a hotel and an office building ("FAC" = Frankfurt Airport Center). The three level deep underground parkings are beneath those buildings. The tracks of the train station run between the terminal as such and the range of office and hotel buildings.

The land side of Terminal 1 is 420 Meter long. Horizontally it is divided into three areas called A, B, and C.

It is divided into three concourses. Lufthansa and its Star Alliance partners currently dominate all of Terminal 1.

Concourse A Concourse A has gates on two levels, with gates numbered A51 through A65 positioned directly above gates numbered A08 through A42 . Passengers checking in at Frankfurt must go through two separate security checkpoints in order to reach gates A60 through A65 where Lufthansa flights to the United States of America depart. Restrooms in Concourse A have a maximum capacity of between one and three people. The concourse has no water fountains, although the water in the toilet sinks is labelled as drinkable.

Concourse B

Concourse C

Terminal 2 image:AirportFrankfurt terminal2.jpgTerminal 2 opened on the 24 October 1994. It is designed to resemble a classical railway station from its landside facade. It is divided into two concourses.

Concourse D image:Frankfurt airport terminal 2 (during takeoff).JPG

Concourse E image:Frankfurt skyline 003.jpg



First Class Terminal Lufthansa maintains a separate First Class Terminal at Frankfurt Airport for the use of first class travel passengers and members of the highest tier of its Miles & More rewards program (but not other Star Alliance programs). The terminal has 200 staff for around 300 passengers per day, and provides individualized security screening and customs facilities, valet parking, a white-linen restaurant, a cigar room and bubble baths. Passengers are driven from the terminal directly to their aircraft by a chaffeured Mercedes-Benz. The commercial success of the FCT at Frankfurt has led Lufthansa to plan the opening of a similar facility at Munich International Airport."A Bubble Bath and a Glass Of Bubbly — at the Airport," Wall Street Journal, July 10, 2007.

Other Features & Amenities Frankfurt has two cargo terminals, North and South, as well as a separate General Aviation Terminal on the south side of the airport. There is also a Sheraton Hotels and Resorts hotel adjacent to Terminal 1. Terminal 1 also has a full-service German Post Office & DHL office open to the public.

Ground transportation To the land side, Frankfurt Airport is well connected with a double railway station and being located directly at one of the most important intersections of Autobahn in Germany, the Bundesautobahn 3 and Bundesautobahn 5.

The Frankfurt (Main) Flughafen Regionalbahnhof has been opened in 1972 together with the Terminal 1. It is located under the street in front of the terminal, two levels below the arrivals level. During most of the day, S-Bahn-trains depart every 15 minutes to the eastwards to the Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof (journey time 11 minutes), the four stations in the central Citytunnel and further to the east of Frankfurt, namely Offenbach and Hanau, and westwards to Rüsselsheim, Mainz and Wiesbaden. The first S-Bahn trains arrive at 4:28h from Frankfurt and Hanau, at 4:29h from Mainz and Wiesbaden, the last ones depart at 1:32h to Frankfurt, and at 0:29h to Wiesbaden and 0:59h to Rüsselsheim. The ticket to Frankfurt costs 3.55 Euro. The ticket must be purchased before going down to the platform, either at vending machines or the Deutsche Bahn ticket counter.

Regional express trains to other destinations like Saarbrücken in the west, Koblenz down the Rhine valley, or Würzburg in the east also call at the regional station, as some long distance trains, especially in the night hours, when the long distance station is closed.

The Frankfurt (Main) Flughafen Fernbahnhof, opened in 1999, is the end point of the new Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line which links Cologne as the gateway to the Ruhrgebiet with southern Germany, allowing speeds up to 300 km/h (186 mph). All InterCityExpress trains between Cologne and southern Germany stop at the Airport train station, taking slighly less than an hour from Cologne to the Airport. About 10 trains per hour depart in all directions.

The station is squeezed in between the Autobahn A3 and the four-lane Bundesstraße B43, linked to Terminal 1 by a building bridging the Autobahn. Arriving railway passengers can check in right at the train station for about 60 airlines.

The tracks are numbered from 1 to 3 in the regional station, from 4 to 7 in the long distance station.

Deutsche Bahn operates the AiRail Service in conjunction with Lufthansa, American Airlines and Emirates Airline. The service operates to Bonn Hauptbahnhof, Köln Hauptbahnhof, Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof, Freiburg Hauptbahnhof, Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe railway station, Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof, Leipzig Hauptbahnhof, Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, Hannover Hauptbahnhof, Mannheim Hauptbahnhof, München Hauptbahnhof, Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof, and Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof.

Various transport companies provide bus services to the airport.

Taxis to the city centre (Hauptwache) cost approximately 25 euro or slightly more, to the main train station about three Euros less.

For passengers coming with their own car, multi-storey parkings, mostly underground, are lined up along the terminals. A long term parking lot is located south of the runways, on the area of the former US military installation, with a shuttle bus to the terminals.

In 2006, 29.5% of the 12'299'192 passengers whose air travel originated in Frankfurt were brought by private car, 27.9% came by rail, 20.4% by taxi, 11.1% parked their car at the airport for the duration of their trip, 5.3% came by bus, and 4.6% arrived with a rental car.Statistical data prepared by Fraport department MVG-MF based on polls conducted in the departure lounges every four days

Incidents In 1969, Ariana Flight 701, a Boeing 727 of Ariana Afghan Airlines was arriving at London Gatwick Airport from Frankfurt when it crashed into a house, killing 50 of the 66 people aboard. Two people died on the ground.

On 22 May 1983 during an airshow at the Rhein-Main Air Base, a Canadian RCAF F-104 Starfighter crashed onto a nearby road, hitting a car and killing all passengers, a vicar's family of 5. The pilot was able to Ejector seat.

In 1988 the first leg of Pan Am Flight 103 (a Boeing 727) took off from Frankfurt. About half of the passengers and baggage changed planes at Heathrow Airport to continue to the U.S. A bomb exploded on the aircraft (Boeing 747) above the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all the passengers on board. The bomb was planted by Libyan terrorists.

See also

References External links


 

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