Frankfurt Airport

Frankfurt Airport is continental Europe's second-busiest airport by passengers (behind Paris–CDG) and its largest by cargo tonnage. It serves 114 airlines on 518 routes reaching 277 nonstop destinations — the highest international destination count in Europe — and has the densest intercontinental network of any single European airport. The facility is owned and operated by Fraport AG, which also holds concessions at airports in Brazil, Greece, and Peru, making FRA the flagship of one of the world's largest publicly-traded airport companies. Lufthansa runs its primary global hub here, and the airport is Star Alliance's most important European connecting point. Four runways — three parallel east–west (13,123 ft / 4,000 m each) and one north–south departure-only runway commissioned in 2011 to increase peak hourly capacity — support a schedule that typically delivers 1,500 daily movements. Two large terminals are joined by the Sky Line automated people-mover; Terminal 3, a major expansion south of the existing runways dedicated primarily to non-Lufthansa carriers, entered service in phases from 2026. FRA is inseparable from Frankfurt's role as mainland Europe's financial capital and the Rhein-Main metropolitan area's logistics spine. The airport is embedded in the German autobahn network at the A3/A5 interchange and has its own long-distance ICE railway station served by direct high-speed trains to Cologne, Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Basel, and Paris. Lufthansa Cargo's global super-hub is co-located on the south side, and Frankfurt is a top-three European freight gateway alongside LHR and CDG.