Fraport Sustainability Report 2009: "Fraport Wants to Be Measured…"

By Fraport Ag, PRNE
Thursday, May 27, 2010

New Sustainability Report Presented - Schulte: Focus on Noise Issue

FRANKFURT, May 28, 2010 - In the coming years, Fraport AG's sustainability policy will
focus on the issues of noise monitoring, active noise abatement and noise
impact research. Presenting Fraport's latest sustainability report at a press
conference today, Fraport executive board chairman Dr. Stefan Schulte
declared the reduction of aviation-related noise emissions to be a major
challenge in the near future. "We want to promote reduction of noise nuisance
in the region. And we want to better our own noise development forecasts,
following completion of Frankfurt Airport's expansion. Fraport wants to be
measured in terms of tangible results," emphasized Schulte.

Schulte called the noise index introduced by the Forum
Flughafen und Region (FFR) an objective gauge for the noise blight situation
in the airport vicinity during the day and at night. This scientific
parameter will significantly contribute to making the noise nuisance
situation in the region transparent and to mapping clearly any changes, in
either direction.

"More air traffic will, of course, raise the established index
value. However, process optimization and development of quieter aircraft can
lower the value. We are working intensively toward the goal of achieving
reduction potentials and thus clearly undercutting the noise forecasts used
in Frankfurt Airport's zoning procedure," Schulte stated.

Fraport's CEO pointed out that the FFR plans to publish
concrete measures for active noise abatement in June 2010. "The issue is to
reduce noise at source, to lower noise pollution on the ground and improve
noise impact distribution," explained Schulte. The individual sub-projects
are ambitious, because they are extremely creative, complex and elaborate;
however, progress is being clearly made.

Fraport has put its heart and soul as well as its know-how
into the development of the measures and is now sponsoring two of the
projects. One project involves optimizing the use of the runway system, i.e.,
the selective bundling of departures while simultaneously minimizing noise
emissions to the extent of reaching actual noise intermissions. A second
project is the use of a noise-optimized glide path angle for approaches to
Frankfurt's new Runway Northwest once it goes into operation.

"We have to examine the effects of noise also from a
scientific perspective," Schulte underscored. However, this must be done in a
methodically correct manner. Schulte advocated a comparative noise impact
study for rail, road and air transportation. He urged that the study be
conducted over a number of years and extend well beyond the Frankfurt region
to yield reliable results independent of isolated cases. Objectivity,
transparency and honesty are the most important requirements for successfully
conducting such a study.

This also includes taking into account known facts. For
example, noise mapping of the state of Hesse clearly shows that noise
emissions from road traffic are the major problem - not air traffic. "Another
fact is the new and stricter German aircraft noise act, which has recently
been passed. Incidentally, regulations for aircraft noise are much more
stringent than for rail traffic," explained Fraport's CEO. "Another fact is
that the noise footprint is shrinking noticeably from one aircraft generation
to the next — for example, for the A380 it has shrunk by more than 20
percent compared to the B747."

Schulte continued: "If we want to address noise emissions as
well as noise nuisance for people, including the effects on health -
something which Fraport supports - we have do this on a solid methodological
basis. This also means including different transport modes and geographic
regions. Only then will we get reliable findings that go beyond specific
regional features and that can be evaluated."

Furthermore, Schulte underscored that Fraport has always faced
its special ecological and social responsibilities as an airport manager with
great dedication. "We never shied away from striking new, inventive, and
often inconvenient paths. And this success proves that our proactive attitude
is right. People in the Frankfurt Airport region can continue to count on
Fraport in the future, even and especially when the new runway - and thus a
major part of FRA's expansion — will be completed in a little over a year,"
Schulte concluded.

By establishing a Sustainability and Corporate Compliance unit
at the beginning of 2010, Fraport has given new significance to
sustainability — a clear commitment to the airport operator's high standard
of sustainable value creation in the interest of all stakeholders. "All of
the Fraport Group's previous sustainability-related activities have been
concentrated in our new Sustainability central unit in terms of economic,
social and ecological sustainability. These activities have been integrated
in an overall concept, which has been positioned as the decisive criterion
for all corporate units to act," explained Jorg Kamer, head of Fraport's
Sustainability Management.

"Our new Sustainability Report 2009 documents that
sustainability has always been an important aspect of Fraport's corporate
culture and continued to be integral to many of our entrepreneurial decisions
made last year."

Fraport AG's Sustainability Report 2009 is available on the
Internet at www.fraport.com. You can also order a free copy by
e-mailing nachhaltigkeitsmanagement@fraport.de or by telephoning
+49(0)69-690-60131.

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    For Further Information, Please Contact:

    Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide
    Robert A. Payne, B.A.A. - Senior Mgr. International Press & PR
    International Spokesman, Press Office (Dept. UKM-PS),
    Corporate Communications, 60547 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    Tel.: +49-69-690-78547; Fax: +49-69-690-60548;
    E-mail: r.payne@fraport.de; Internet: www.fraport.com

For Further Information, Please Contact: Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide, Robert A. Payne, B.A.A. - Senior Mgr. International Press & PR, International Spokesman, Press Office (Dept. UKM-PS), Corporate Communications, 60547 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Tel.: +49-69-690-78547; Fax: +49-69-690-60548; E-mail: r.payne at fraport.de

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