Frankfurt Airport sees 1.6% passenger rise in September despite strike impact
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Frankfurt Airport handled 6.1 million passengers in September 2026, a 1.6 percent increase over the same month a year earlier.
The January‑September total remained around 47.5 million passengers, a 0.2 percent decline from the previous year, while Lufthansa strikes affected roughly 700,000 passengers during the period. Cargo throughput rose 2.5 percent to 174,773 tonnes and aircraft movements fell 3.5 percent to 40,539, with domestic flights down 25.2 percent after services to Bremen and Stuttgart were suspended.