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even if the new Terminal 3 at Frankfurt Airport has to stay in its slumber for a longer time, at least the question of how people can get there in 2026 has been answered: Fraport has presented the new Sky Line.

The status report for the Frankfurt city forest was also presented on Thursday.

From the plane it looks quite impressive, dense and colourful.

However, a closer look reveals that the forest is not healthy.

An overview of what else was important on the day, such as reactions from Hesse to the relief package negotiated by the federal and state governments:

Marie Lisa Kehler

Deputy head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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New Sky Line train:

Frankfurt Airport is growing.

And because in future passengers may have to put up with even longer distances to get to the right terminal on the huge site, Fraport CEO Stefan Schulte presented one of the new Sky Line trains on Thursday, which connects Terminal 3 with the long-distance and regional train station as well as the two terminals in the north.

From 2026 onwards, the twelve rail vehicles are to take passengers coming to the airport, primarily by train, over a distance of 5.6 kilometers to the new terminal.

This little journey will take no longer than eight minutes.

A Sky Line train is to arrive every two minutes to transport passengers to their destination – up to 4,000 people per hour at peak times.

Almost every tree is sick:

In the hot summer, the Frankfurt city forest was one of the few places where it was somehow bearable.

During this hot summer, many people became aware of how rich the quality of life is in a city that has more than 5000 hectares of forest.

But the dry months have left their mark on the city forest.

This is shown by the so-called forest status report that Rosemarie Heilig (The Greens), head of the environmental department, presented on Thursday.

Many trees were "significantly damaged".

To be more precise, 97.6 percent of the trees in the city forest are ailing.

According to Heilig, this increases the risk of branches suddenly breaking off or trees that actually look healthy falling over.

Just last week, a woman was killed by a falling branch while walking through the woods.

In order to secure the forest in the long term,

Frankfurt's head of the environmental department calls for a future or forest conversion program.

According to the Greens politician, this requires investments in the order of two to 2.5 million euros.

Support promised:

After weeks of wrangling, the federal and state governments agreed on a package to finance the planned multi-billion dollar relief in view of the high energy prices.

Prime Minister Boris Rhein (CDU) is quite satisfied with the result.

The relief packages put together by the federal and state governments will not affect the budget of the state of Hesse as much as originally thought.

"We will probably remain below the feared billion." A lot, but by no means everything, was clarified at the conference, says Rhein.

There is still a lack of hardship rules for sports clubs.

Hesse will now launch its own program for this.

"Our clear message to the sport is: We will sort it out."

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