Frankfurt Main Airport

ICAO EDDF50.0267°N 8.5584°E111 m / 364 ftLarge airport

Frankfurt Main Airport (IATA: FRA, ICAO: EDDF) is a large airport in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany. It opened on 8 Jul 1936. It has 4 runways; the longest is 4,000 m (13,123 ft). It is operated by Fraport. In 2025 it handled 63.1 million passengers.

Timeline

5 events · 1934–2011

1934

MilestoneEarthworks.

1934

MilestoneConstruction.

08 JUL 1936

OpenedFrankfurt Main Airport opens.

1985

Disaster1985 Frankfurt airport bombing.

02 MAR 2011

Milestone2011 Frankfurt Airport shooting.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

07R/25L070° / 250° · LIT

LENGTH4,000 m13,123 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

07C/25C070° / 250° · LIT

LENGTH4,000 m13,123 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEAsphalt

18/36180° / 360° · LIT

LENGTH4,000 m13,123 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

07L/25R070° / 250° · LIT

LENGTH2,800 m9,186 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2014–2025

59.4M

60.9M

60.7M

64.4M

69.4M

70.4M

18.7M

24.8M

48.8M

59.3M

61.5M

63.1M

141516171819202122232425

Routes

323 destinations · 104 countries

Year-round229

Seasonal102

Seasonal charter2

LRMCasa De Campo International AirportDominican Republic · Discover Airlines7,560 km4,698 mi DPSDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International AirportIndonesia · Condor Flugdienst11,936 km7,417 mi

Cargo79

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from FRA. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Frankfurt Airport” (revision of 23 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

97 airlines · destinations from FRA

Hub airlines6

LHLufthansa169 DECondor Flugdienst82 LHLufthansa Cargo66 4YDiscover Airlines65 CLLufthansa CityLine LHLufthansa Regional

Passenger81

ENAir Dolomiti23 X3TUI fly Deutschland21 XQSunExpress10 UAUnited Airlines6 CAAir China5 KEKorean Air4 PCPegasus Airlines4 A3Aegean Airlines3 KCAir Astana3 SMAir Cairo3 ACAir Canada3 TKAJet3 OZAsiana Airlines3 CZChina Southern Airlines3 OUCroatia Airlines3 DLDelta Air Lines3 EYEtihad Airways3 IAIraqi Airways3 BJNouvelair3 AIAir India2 NHAll Nippon Airways2 AAAmerican Airlines2 FBBulgaria Air2 CXCathay Pacific2 XCCorendon Airlinesseasonal · 2 CUCubana de Aviación2 U2easyJet2 LYEL AL Israel Airlines Ltd.2 EAFElectra Airwaysseasonal · 2 H7HiSky2 KKLeav Aviationseasonal · 2 ATRoyal Air Maroc2 SVSaudia2 SQSingapore Airlines2 TUTunisair2 VNVietnam Airlines2 EIAer Lingus1 AHAir Algérie1 UXAir Europa1 AFAir France1 JUAir Serbia1 BTAirBaltic1 OSAustrian Airlines1 S4Azores Airlines1 BABritish Airways1 SNBrussels Airlines1 C6Centrum Air1 CIChina Airlines1 MUChina Eastern Airlines1 DXDAT1 MSEgyptAir1 EKEmirates1 ETEthiopian Airlines1 EWEurowings1 AYFinnair1 —FlyErbil1 5FFlyOne1 GFGulf Air1 IBIberia1 FIIcelandair1 AZITA Airways1 JLJapan Airlines1 KLKLM1 KUKuwait Airways1 JJLATAM Brasil1 LOLOT Polish Airlines1 OMMIAT Mongolian Airlines1 MEMiddle East Airlines - Air Liban1 WYOman Air1 QRQatar Airways1 RJRoyal Jordanian1 SKScandinavian Airlines1 GQSky Express1 ULSriLankan Airlines1 TPTAP Air Portugal1 ROTAROM1 TGThai Airways1 TWTrinity Airways1 TKTurkish Airlines1 T5Turkmenistan Airlines1 HYUzbekistan Airways1

Cargo10

3SAeroLogic6 EKEmirates SkyCargo4 CAAir China Cargo3 FXFedEx Express2 SVSaudia Cargo2 —Air Canada Cargo1 CKChina Cargo Airlines1 KZNippon Cargo Airlines1 O3SF Airlines1 —Turkish Cargo1

Former hub of Abacus Air, Aero Flight, Aero Lloyd, Atlantis, Calair, DLT Deutsche Luftverkehrsgesellschaft, German Cargo, Germanair, Nightexpress, Pan Am, Ratioflug Luftfahrtunternehmen, SkyTeam Luftfahrtunternehmen, SunExpress Deutschland, Transportflug, Wirtschaftsflug and XL Airways Germany.

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from FRA. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers63.1M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#18of 3,974 · #6 Europe · #1 DE Longest runway4,000 m13,123 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=111of 29,858 · =8 Europe · =1 DE Elevation111 m364 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=29,807of 43,403 · =3,367 Europe · =548 DE AgeOpened 19362026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=649of 15,079 · =368 Europe · =69 DE Runways41 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=41of 29,978 · =10 Europe · =2 DE

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

15 channels

A/DLANGEN RADAR118.450

A/DLANGEN RADAR127.275

AFISLangen Information119.150

ATISFrankfurt ATIS (ARR)118.030

CLDFrankfurt Delivery (initial call)122.035

DIRDIR124.200

GNDFrankfurt Ground / Rollkontrolle121.805

RMPFrankfurt Apron / Vorfeld121.655

TWRFRANKFURT TOWER / TURM (SOUTH)119.905

TWRFRANKFURT TOWER / TURM (NORTH)136.500

ATISFrankfurt ATIS (DEP)118.730

AFISLangen Information123.525

VOLMETFrankfurt 1 VOLMET127.605

VOLMETFrankfurt 2 VOLMET135.780

TWRFrankfurt Tower / TURM (RWY 18)124.855