Exceptional situation at Frankfurt Airport: The capacity is to be further limited at the start of the summer holidays of all times.
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In the fight against the handling chaos, Frankfurt Airport wants to reduce its capacity even further. In the coming week, an application will be made to air traffic control to lower the hourly maximum value of flight movements again, a spokesman for the airport operator Fraport told the German Press Agency on Friday. “The aim is to additionally stabilize flight operations.” The “coordination benchmark”, which had already been reduced from 106 to 96 take-offs and landings per hour, should then be limited to 88 flight movements according to Fraport’s will.
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The measure is aimed in particular at the peak times of the day, when the ground handling services regularly have problems supplying the many aircraft. For the first time, Fraport now wants to oblige other airlines, in addition to its main customer Lufthansa, to cancel individual flights or to relocate them to off-peak times that are less used. In close agreement with Fraport, Lufthansa has already canceled almost 6,000 mostly shorter flights for the months of July and August at the Munich and Frankfurt hubs.
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Thank you to Lufthansa for this “immense effort,” said the Fraport spokesman. Now other companies should also make their contribution: “We expect further relief measures from the talks with other airlines. The actual summer peaks are yet to come and we can only master these special challenges together.”
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