World’s First Hooters Restaurant at an Airport Opens at Frankfurt Airport

Hooters American Restaurant and Sportsbar opened its first airport location at Frankfurt Airport today. Entrepreneurs, Manfred Metzger and Bastian Klink, both from Karlsruhe, Germany, are the owners and managers of the new franchise operation of the famous American Hooters restaurant chain. Metzger and Klink said "Hooters Frankfurt Airport will cater to passengers, the general public as well as the more than 70,000 staff working at Frankfurt Airport. We offer good food, fun and service, service, service. Our motto is Hooters makes you happy."

Guests can now enjoy this international, multicultural gastronomy outlet at the Airport City Mall Frankfurt, located in Terminal 1 on Level 0 (Area C) above the Regional Train Station. The atmosphere is typically American-style, from the greeting to the friendly, quick service. Hooters Frankfurt Airport features American finger foods like chicken wings, pizza and burgers. Completing the menu is a large variety of beverages including soft drinks, beer, wine and traditional Frankfurt Apfelwein (apple wine).

A shop at the entrance to the restaurant offers branded souvenirs and popular Hooters T-shirts. A special smoking area is integrated in the restaurant. Hooters Frankfurt Airport seats 190 people and features a Biergarten for up to 70 guests. Positioned around the sports bar, 10 flat-screen monitors present international sporting events.

Chief executive officer of Hooters, USA, Coby Brooks, stated: "This is an exciting expansion of the Hooters brand to the Frankfurt global air transportation hub located in the heart of Europe. As the first airport Hooters in the world, we consider this restaurant/bar to be a case study project for the future. Frankfurt Airport is recognized as a dynamic and innovative airport city and we are proud to be established here."

Fraport AG executive board member Herbert Mai said: "Hooters an attractive addition to the culinary and entertainment landscape of the growing Frankfurt Airport City. Fraport is embarking on a major expansion of retail space and offerings to meet the needs of diverse customer groups and the growing traffic. With Hooters, we now have some 250 retail stores, restaurants and service outlets at Frankfurt Airport"

Effective August 11, Hooters Frankfurt Airport will be open from 11:00 to 24:00 daily (www.hooters-fra-airport.de; www.hooters.com).

Fraport press release 11.08.2010

Strong growth on intercontinental routes

Passengers
In July Brussels Airport handled 1.9 million passengers, up 2% on the same month last year. Growth is undeniably recovering but originating passenger numbers are still under pressure from competing airports.
Transfer and long-haul traffic recorded substantial growth (+20%). In the intra-European segment business traffic in particular is back to full speed. The Belgian leisure market – that contrary to most other European airports held strong last year – records similar results to last year’s.

Cargo
Although the summer holidays are never the busiest period for cargo traffic, cargo recorded a growth of 14% on July 2009. The full-freighter segment grew by 16%; cargo carried on board passenger aircraft grew by no less than 36%.

Aircraft movements
The number of aircraft movements totalled to 20,772 down a mere 0.5% on pcp, indicating that the decline is steadily growing smaller.

New services
Last month again saw the announcement of a number of new routes for Brussels Airport. Air Arabia is moving its operations to Fez, Oujda and Casablanca from Charleroi to Brussels Airport. Ukraine International reopens its route to Kiev as of September and, starting this winter, Brussels Airlines operate an extra flight to Nairobi and Kigali, their fourth weekly flight to these destinations and their 31st weekly African flight.

July 2010
Passengers +2.1%
Cargo +13.9%
Aircraft movements -0.5%

Year-to-date July 2010
Passengers -1.8%
Cargo +6.1%
Aircraft movements +5.4%

Brussels Airlines Press release 20 August 2010

The Moroccan low cost operator Air Arabia will fly from the airport of Brussels Airport instead of Charleroi as from the new winter season. Starting the end of October, the airline will fly from Brussels Airport to Casablanca three times weekly. On Tuesdays and Saturdays these flights make a stop in Fez, on Thursdays in Oujda. Passengers can book a flight from Brussels to any of these three destinations. For Brussels Airport, Fez is a new direct destination.

Air Arabia operates Airbus A320 aircraft in a full economy configuration. Their low cost product emphasizes on passenger comfort with extra legroom and a 20kg baggage allowance included in the flight fare. Meals and drinks can be purchased during flight, but soon it will be possible to make meals reservations and payment through the internet.

This evening flight arrives in Brussels at 7.35pm and leaves at 8.15pm.

For more information, please visit http://www.airarabia.com

Brussels Airport Press Release - August 10, 2010

Fraport Traffic Figures – July 2010: Frankfurt Airport Reports New Traffic Records
FRA’s Busiest July Ever

Fraport AG's Frankfurt Airport home base welcomed 5,281,632 passengers in July 2010 – exceeding the 5.2 million passenger mark for the first time in a single month. This topped the previous record of July 2007 by nearly 90,000 passengers. Compared to last year, 7.7 percent more passengers used the FRA international air transportation hub.

"Our latest passenger figures impressively show that we are not only performing well compared to the 2009 crisis year but that traffic demand at Frankfurt Airport is stronger than ever," explained Fraport executive board chairman Dr. Stefan Schulte. A new historical daily record was reached in the reporting month when FRA served 183,663 passengers on July 31, 2010. Thus, the previous daily record of 182,259 passengers on September 29, 2000, was finally broken after nine years and ten months.

Handling 188,244 metric tons of airfreight in July 2010, FRA registered a new monthly record and a 20.4 percent year-on-year increase. Aircraft movements also climbed by 3.9 percent over July 2009 to 42,028 takeoffs and landings. Passenger and airfreight figures also had an impact on accumulated maximum takeoff weights (MTOWs), which rose by about 16,000 metric tons over the previous record month of August 2005 to more than 2.52 million metric tons. MTOWs in July 2010 grew by 5.3 percent year-on-year.

The positive traffic trend was also stabilizing at Fraport's five majority-owned airports in July 2010. Combined, these airports accounted for approximately 10.5 million passengers handled by the Fraport Group – an increase of 11.7 percent compared to the same month last year.

Looking at the specific airports, Antalya (AYT) in Turkey achieved a 16.2 percent increase to 3.4 million passengers. Lima (LIM) in Peru saw traffic surge by 19.4 percent year-on-year to 923,381 passengers. Burgas (BOJ) and Varna (VAR) airports on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast were used by 567,260 and 288,953 passengers respectively. This represented growth in passenger traffic of 13.6 percent at BOJ and of 7.2 percent at VAR.

Traffic Data Frankfurt Airport
Traffic Data Fraport Group

Fraport press release 11.08.2010

Record choice of long haul destinations

Passengers
In June Brussels Airport welcomed 1.59 million passengers: 1.6% up on June 2009. Intercontinental traffic grew strongly. Several new destinations that were inaugurated this summer show a strong startup performance (United Airlines to Chicago, Air Canada to Montreal, Hainan Airlines to Shanghai). Older existing long haul routes also show strong load factors, to the US as well as to Asia and Africa.
Brussels Airlines started to operate four new direct routes in Africa in the beginning of July (Accra, Cotonou, Lomé and Ouagadougou). This establishes a new record : never before in history, such a broad choice of long haul destinations has been offered from Brussels Airport.

Passenger growth for the first half year remained negative (-2.6%), due to the volcanic ash cloud in April.

Cargo
Freight services (38.851 tons) have grown with 5.4% over the month of June 2009. In June again, this growth is mostly recorded with full freighter transportation and with belly freight on board passenger airliners.
In May, Hong Kong Airlines announced its intentions to start operating freighter service between Brussels and Hong Kong, via Delhi. After a startup period with 3 weekly flights, the number is increased to 6.

Aircraft movements
Brussels Airport recorded 20,704 flights in June, down a mere -1.9%. For passenger flights, this indicates a higher seat occupancy and the use of relatively larger aircraft types.

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June 2010                   Jun-10          Jun-09       Growth
Passengers (‘000)           1,589         1,564           1,6%
Cargo (‘000 tonnes)         38.8         36.8             5,4%
Movements (‘000)            20.7         21.1         -1,5%

Year-to-date June 2010      Jan-Jun 10      Jan-Jun 09      Growth
Passengers (‘000)            7,726         7,936         -2,6%
Cargo (‘000 ton)            237.0         226.0           4,9%
Movements (‘000)            108.8         116.2         -6,3%

Brussels Airport Press release, July 23rd, 2010