The Fraport group will "submit at the beginning of next week a request to the Federal Ministry of Transport to reduce hourly rotations at Frankfurt airport from 96 to 88" take-offs and landings, a spokeswoman for the manager told AFP. .
"The objective is to further stabilize the air operations" of the first German airport which are severely disrupted during this period of holiday departures, added this source.
The German company Lufthansa welcomed Friday "a correct decision" of Fraport, according to Jens Ritter, director of the company Lufthansa, quoted in a press release.
The leading European airline group has taken the lead in reducing its flight plan for this summer in several waves in recent weeks.
In all, nearly 6,000 flights have been canceled by Lufthansa to and from the "hubs" of Frankfurt and Munich.
Once Fraport's request has been accepted in Berlin, it will be a question of "intensifying discussions with other airlines" with a view to obtaining "further relief measures" for the program, according to the spokeswoman.
Up to 1,250 aircraft serving 285 destinations currently take off and land in Frankfurt every day, around 80% of which are attributable to the Lufthansa Group and its Star Alliance partners.
Faced with the same difficulties, London's Heathrow airport announced on Tuesday that it would limit the number of departing passengers to 100,000 per day for two months, 4,000 less than its forecast, asking companies to stop selling tickets to plane for the summer.
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