The Terminal 3 of Frankfurt airport will not go as planned for 2023, but not until 2024 or even later, in the summer of 2025 in operation. The Chairman of the management Board of the airport operator, Fraport, Stefan Schulte said on Wednesday on the sidelines of a presentation of the Covid-19-safety precautions in the terminal. The early construction of the gate G is advanced already to the extent that he is at the end of 2021 to finish, and in the summer of 2022 in operation.
Schulte explained the shift with the dramatic slump in demand as a result of the Virus pandemic. Regardless of Schulte assumes that the Frankfurt airport will need additional capacity currently under construction, Terminals 2025 actually again. Nevertheless, Schulte expects the Covid-19-pandemic, with one in comparison to 2019 by 15 to 20 percent reduced air transport market. Therefore, no path to a job leads, in his view, removal of a similar magnitude. This means that the number of currently over 22,000 employees of Fraport to the world – be well reduced 19,000 in Germany – soon to be 3000 to 4000. This is supposed to happen Schulte, according to the most socially compatible manner possible, with instruments such as part-time without wage compensation, early retirement and employment of the companies. Redundancies they wanted to avoid, although, it is not possible to exclude but ultimately.
