INTERNATIONAL FIRE FIGHTER 47
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n an average, 150,000 passenger's transient
the airport each day. This equates to an
annual passenger flow of 54 million. The
pulsating beat of the airside is a true indication of
how busy this airport is. There are 83 aircraft
movements each hour or one movement every 43
seconds! The 19 km2 airport city is home to more
than 500 companies employing over 70,000 peo-
ple. The airport, owned and operated by Fraport
AG, operates three runways, each 4,000m in
length, two passenger terminals, cargo centers, a
general aviation terminal, medical facilities, park-
ing garages and a large magnitude of other air-
port and non-airport related venues. Frankfurt
Airport is the "Home-Base" for Lufthansa,
Europe's largest airline. Lufthansa operates its
maintenance base in Frankfurt and has numerous
aircraft hangars to include the recently constructed
state-of-the-art A380 maintenance hangar. The
airport has 138 flight gates and over 200 aircraft
parking positions. Parking garages at the airport
provide parking for more than 15,000 vehicles.
Each day, aircraft are serviced with more than 17
million liters of fuel. Alone a single Boeing 747-
400 can take-on approximately 216,000 liters. To
maintain fueling capacity, on the airport is fuel
farm consisting of 10 above-ground storage tanks
with a total capacity of 186,000,000 liters of
The Frankfurt
Airport Fire Service
� protecting one of
the world's busiest
airport cities.
The Frankfurt Airport at a glance
Frankfurt Airport, proudly known as the gateway to Europe is one of the world's
busiest international airports and is home to 102 airlines traveling to over 180
destinations worldwide.By John A. Olsen
Senior program
manager and fire and
emergency services
consultant for the Fire
Training Center of
Fraport AG Frankfurt
Airport Services
Worldwide, Germany
Pic courtesy of
Rosenbauer

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