Frankfurt Airport cargo rises 4.5% as passenger traffic holds steady

Frankfurt Airport handled around 6 million passengers in October 2026, broadly unchanged from a year earlier. Cargo throughput, including airfreight and airmail, rose 4.5% to 187,701 tonnes, while aircraft movements fell 4.7% to 40,498.

Fraport said the autumn school holidays supported demand for European leisure destinations. Passenger traffic to and from Greece rose 11.2%, followed by Italy at 9.3% and Spain at 8.0%. Traffic grew 12.0% on African routes and 6.9% on Latin American routes. Middle East traffic fell 17.9% overall, although traffic to and from Israel rose 67.7%.

Most of Fraport’s airports outside Germany recorded passenger growth. Ljubljana rose 15.3% to 173,699 passengers, Lima gained 12.8% to around 2.4 million, and the group’s 14 Greek airports handled 3.6 million passengers, up 1.9%. Antalya was an exception, with traffic falling 5.4% to around 4.8 million.

Across the airports it actively manages, Fraport handled around 18.4 million passengers in October, up 0.7% year on year.