BERLIN (dpa-AFX) - Fraport AG (FPRUF.PK, 0O1R.L, FRA.DE), the owner and operator of Germany's Frankfurt Airport, reported a 2.2 percent decline in passengers at the Frankfurt Airport or FRA home base for the month of April 2013.
Passengers at FRA for the month declined 2.2% to nearly 4.7 million, hurt by the earlier start of the Easter holidays and mainly to the strike by Deutsche Lufthansa AG's ground staff - which resulted in about 950 strike-related flight cancellations on April 22 that affected more than 100,000 passengers at FRA.
Excluding this one-time effect, passenger figures would have reached last year's level, the group noted.
FRA's cargo volume remained relatively constant with 174,000 metric tons handled in the reporting month, only 0.1 percent below last year. Also impacted by the labor strike, aircraft movements fell by 2.2 percent to about 39,250 takeoffs and landings.
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