Frankfurt Airport (FRA) is today one of the world’s largest airports. Serving as a major connecting hub for Star Alliance carrier Lufthansa and multiple of its partners across the globe, the airport today sees millions of passengers pass through its doors each year. However, in decades prior, the airport had a very different history when it came to airline hubs. Multiple international carriers had extensive operations at the airport, but slowly retreated from the facility as a result of network consolidation efforts.
Related Posts
The USA’s Most Extreme Red-Eye Domestic Flights
- Guest authors
- March 22, 2024
- 0
Exclusive: Air Canada’s 1st Airbus A321XLR Begins To Take Shape
- Guest authors
- May 30, 2025
- 0
Air Canada’s first Airbus A321XLR is now under construction at the manufacturer’s Hamburg Finkenwerder site in Germany. Of course, by the time you’re watching this, the jet MAY have already been fully assembled and painted. Nonetheless, Simple Flying was granted an exclusive first peek of the new aircraft on the production line at the Hamburg facility, including a look inside the all-important XLR-distinguishing-feature, its rear central tank.