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Traffic Development a rise in demand for tourist destinations, the inclusion of new destinations, more frequent services, the moderate summer weather in August 2014, and the booming cruise market all played a role here. Although strike and weather-related flight cancellations affected domestic traffic in particular, destinations within Germany still grew significantly by 2.1 %. In intercontinental traffic (– 0.5 %), increases in the flight schedule and the rise in seat capacity were comparatively low. How- ever, a recovery in traffic in Asia, North Africa, and North America was observed from August onwards, but the strike-related cancellations at the end of the year prevented the result from being better. With a growth rate of 1.8 %, cargo volume increased moderately in 2014 to about 2.1 million metric tons. Following notable rates of growth in the first quarter, momentum slowed in the following quarters. This also reflected the sluggish development in the global economy. Chinese traffic proved to be a significant driver of growth for cargo develop- ment in Frankfurt, with a significant increase in cargo tonnage. The remaining higher volume countries in the Far East reported declines, however. Moderate tonnage increases by 1.7 % were achieved on connections to and from Europe. Business stagnated in high- volume North American traffic. Due to strike-related cancellations and the air- lines’ continuing conservative supply behav- ior, the number of aircraft movements fell by 0.8 % in the reporting period to approximately 469,000. Without the strike effect, growth of around 0.5 % could have been achieved. Due to sustained consolidation measures (use of larger planes and increase in seat capacity) for various airlines, the maximum takeoff weights increased by a further 1.9 %. Had the cancel- lations not occurred, a higher growth rate of around 3.0 % would have been possible here as well. The proportion of transfer passengers remained high at around 55 % . Frankfurt site Despite a number of flight cancellations as a result of strikes, passenger traffic grew in finan- cial year 2014 and reached an annual high at almost 59.6 million passengers. This increase was particularly strong in the months from May through September, which recorded significant growth – also due to high tourist demand. Without the strikes or weather-relat- ed flight cancellations, growth in passenger traffic of around 3.9 % to approximately 60.3 million passengers would have been possible in financial year 2014. In accordance with expansions to the flight schedule, European traffic saw the most significant increase at 5.2 %. In addition to 59.6 million passengers in Frankfurt in 2014 boarded, departed or transferred, approximately 1.5 million more than in the previous year. 2014 Compact18 2014 CompactTraffic Development