At a gala presentation ceremony at the 25th German Logistics Congress in Berlin, the two system partners were jointly presented yesterday with the 2008 German Logistics Award. It was conferred on the two companies against numerous distinguished competitors for their concept of ‘integrated passenger and baggage logistics at the Frankfurt aviation hub’. The prize was accepted at the gala ceremony at the historic Dresdner Bahnhof in Berlin by Dr Stefan Schulte, Deputy Chairman of Fraport AG, and Dr. Karl-Rudolf Rupprecht, Lufthansa’s Head of Hub Management Frankfurt.

The project, initiated by Lufthansa and Fraport in 2002, focused the two companies joint efforts from Day One on the individual passenger.

The objective was to generate perceptible improvements for each customer in respect of comfort, punctuality, reliability and connection quality.

A Lufthansa flight arriving in Frankfurt has passengers on board for up to 85 connecting flights. In face of growing capacity bottlenecks affecting both flight movements as well as activities in the terminal area, Fraport and Lufthansa joined forces in establishing a closely meshed logistics chain to ensure that even in a difficult operating environment all incoming passengers with their baggage would reach their flight connection in the shortest possible time.