Almost 22.5 million passengers traveled through Fraport AG`s homebase Frankfurt Airport (FRA) during the first six months of 2003, only a 2.1-percent decline over the same period in 2002. The weak global economy, the Iraq war and the SARS infectious disease were the main reasons for this drop. In contrast, FRA`s airfreight tonnage grew during the first six months of 2003 - almost 798,600 metric tons of air cargo and airmail were handled or 2.2 percent more than last year. The number of aircraft movements also increased by 1.4 percent to over 225,600 take-offs and landings.

At Germany`s biggest airport (FRA), wide-body jets accounted for 24.3 percent of all aircraft taking off and landing. Two thirds of all wide-body aircraft coming to Germany land at Frankfurt Airport. Unchanged, traffic at Frankfurt Airport accounted for 70 percent of all intercontinental flights from Germany during the first six months of 2003. Thus, Frankfurt Airport expects increasing traffic figures for the second half of 2003 and for the current high season in particular.

Groupwide the Fraport Group comprises six airports: Frankfurt/Main (Germany), Antalya (Turkey), Frankfurt-Hahn (Germany), Hanover (Germany), Lima (Peru) and Saarbr