Fraport To Go Ahead With Frankfurt Airport Expansion

April 16, 2015
Airport's operator has defied critics, announcing it is expanding to cope with its flood of passengers

Germany's biggest airport is about to become even bigger after Fraport's supervisory board on Wednesday voted to build a third terminal at Frankfurt Airport.

The announcement is a slap in the face for local environmentalists, who had opposed the project over noise pollution concerns, arguing that the extra capacity at Europe's third-largest airport was not needed.

Fraport has repeatedly rejected such criticism, citing reports showing that the number of passengers could climb as high as 73 million annually from 2021, up from its present level of around 60 million and about 10 million higher than the airport's current maximum capacity. The new terminal is expected to serve an extra 25 million passengers a year.

The decision to press on followed a study commissioned by the Hesse state government.

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