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Lufthansa all ready for first Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental test at Frankfurt

Boeing and Lufthansa are fast approaching the next major milestone on the 747-8 Intercontinental program with the start of pre-delivery testing of the new aircraft at Lufthansa’s main operations base at Frankfurt Airport from the 6th to the 9th of December. Read more

Frankfurt Airport has busiest July ever

Airport Management Group Fraport welcomed 5,558,580 passengers at its Frankfurt Airport (FRA) home base – almost 300,000 more than the previous record month in July 2010.  This represents a passenger increase of 5.2 percent year-on-year.  Since the beginning of the year passenger traffic at FRA has grown by 7.8 percent.  Airfreight tonnage also rose in July 2011 by 0.3 percent to 189,000 metric tons year-on-year. Read more

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