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Istanbul Ataturk beats Frankfurt to climb Europe’s airport ranks | Business , Regional | THE DAILY STAR

Istanbul Ataturk beats Frankfurt to climb Europe’s airport ranks

Richard WeissKari Lundgren| Bloomberg

FRANKFURT: Istanbul’s Ataturk airport overtook Frankfurt to enter the European top three for the first time in 2015 as Turkish Airlines continued its rapid expansion and strikes at Deutsche Lufthansa AG hurt the German hub. London Heathrow, the main base for British Airways, remains Europe’s busiest airport, even as it struggles to add flights on runways that are effectively full, while Paris Charles de Gaulle, ranked second, suffered two months of falling numbers for the first time in almost two years after November’s terror attacks.

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