Editing Frankfurt (section)

====Frankfurt Airport====
{{Main|Frankfurt Airport}}
[[File:AirportFrankfurt fromair 2010-09-19.jpg|thumb|left|[[Frankfurt Airport]] (with the fourth runway under construction in 2010) and the [[Frankfurter Kreuz]] (lower right corner)]]
The city can be accessed from around the world via [[Frankfurt Airport]] (''Flughafen Frankfurt am Main'') located {{cvt|12|km|mi|0}} southwest of downtown. The airport has four [[runway]]s and serves 265 nonstop destinations. Run by transport company [[Fraport]] it ranks among the [[world's busiest airports by passenger traffic]] and is the [[world's busiest airports by cargo traffic|busiest airport by cargo traffic]] in Europe. The airport also serves as a hub for [[Condor Flugdienst|Condor]] and as the main hub for German [[flag carrier]] [[Lufthansa]]. It is the busiest airport in Europe in terms of cargo traffic, and the fourth busiest in Europe in terms of passenger traffic behind [[London Heathrow Airport]], [[Charles de Gaulle Airport|Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport]] and [[Amsterdam Airport Schiphol]]. Passenger traffic at Frankfurt Airport in 2018 was 69,510,269 passengers.

A third terminal is being constructed (planned to open in 2026). The third terminal will increase the capacity of the airport to over 90 million passengers per year.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://frankfurter.blog/frankfurt-airport/ |title=Frankfurt Airport |date=1 January 2020 |website=FRANKFURTER |language=en-US |access-date=1 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101105400/https://frankfurter.blog/frankfurt-airport/ |archive-date=1 January 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The airport can be reached by car or bus and has two railway stations, one for regional and one for long-distance traffic. The [[S-Bahn]] lines S8 and S9 (direction ''Offenbach Ost'' or ''Hanau Hbf'') departing at the [[Frankfurt Airport regional station|regional station]] take 10–15 minutes from the airport to [[Frankfurt Central Station]] and onwards to [[Frankfurt Hauptwache station|Hauptwache station]] downtown), the [[InterCity|IC]] and [[Intercity-Express|ICE]] trains departing at the [[Frankfurt Airport long-distance station|long-distance station]] take 10 minutes to Frankfurt Central Station.