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More High-speed ICE Trains Serve Frankfurt Airport Effective August 1: FRA Intermodal Hub Expands Ist Catchment Area Significantly

Frankfurt, Germany (ots)

New Line Provides Fast Link Between Rhine-Ruhr and   
Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Regions
With the inauguration of more InterCity Express (ICE) train
services and a new high-speed rail line to Germany's most populated
region, Frankfurt Airport (FRA) continues to strengthen its position
as one of the world's leading intermodal (the linking of different
modes of transportation) air/rail hub. Beginning August 1, the latest
generation of Deutsche Bahn's ICE-3 trains will commence service on
the newly completed line linking the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main and
Rhine-Ruhr regions. Initially, ICE trains will travel in shuttle
service from Frankfurt's central station (Hauptbahnhof) via FRA's
Long-distance Train Station (a.k.a. AIRail Terminal) to downtown
Cologne and back. As a result, rail travel time between FRA and
downtown Cologne will be cut in half to about one hour.
From December 15, FRA's AIRail Terminal will be fully integrated
in Deutsche Bahn's new rail timetable. Then, nine ICE trains will be
stopping per hour and per direction at Frankfurt Airport. Also from
December onward, seven ICE lines will be available directly from
Frankfurt Airport: Münster to Frankfurt, Dortmund to Frankfurt,
Dortmund to Munich, Dortmund to Basel (Switzerland), Amsterdam
(Holland) to Frankfurt, Brussels (Belgium) to Frankfurt, and Hamburg
to Stuttgart. In addition, two regular-speed InterCity (IC) lines
will be available: Hamburg to Vienna, and Wiesbaden to Munich.
Improving rail connections with the Rhineland will bring more
passengers from this densely populated region to Frankfurt Airport -
visibly enlarging FRA's catchment area. The annual traffic volume at
the AIRail Terminal is expected to grow from 3,3 million passengers
in 2001 to over five million passengers in 2003.  Fraport AG
Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide has been pioneering intermodal
travel since 1972, when FRA inaugurated Terminal 1 and its integrated
railway station. Today the airport features two railway stations, one
for regional trains and one for long-distance trains.
The innovative AIRail Service pilot project - a joint venture
launched by Deutsche Bahn, Fraport and Lufthansa in the spring of
2001 - provides a seamless intermodal service between Stuttgart's
central train station (ZWS - the station's three-letter code) and
Frankfurt Airport (FRA). Tentatively in January 2003, passengers will
also be able to use a similar service at Cologne's central rail
station when taking ICE trains to Frankfurt Airport. For example,
they would be able to check in their baggage all the way through to
their final destination airport, such as New York or Hong Kong. For
the Stuttgart AIRail Service, passengers check in their baggage and
also receive the boarding card for the airline portion of their
journey.  Upon arriving at FRA, they simply proceed to their
appropriate Lufthansa departure gate while their baggage is
automatically transferred from the train to the plane.

Contact:

Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide
Attn: Robert A. Payne - Manager International Press
D-60547 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Tel. +49/69/690-78547
Fax +49/69/690-60548
mailto:r.payne@fraport.de
Internet: http://www.fraport.com

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