Frankfurt Airport's August passenger count rose 1.8 percent from a year earlier to 4.92 million, boosted by growth in intercontinental traffic, the company said on Tuesday.
Air freight at continental Europe's largest passenger and cargo hub was up 14.7 percent in August, compared with August 2003, to 142,555 tonnes, Fraport said.
"Frankfurt airport welcomed... more passengers and aircraft movements in a single month than at any other time in the airport's history," said Fraport.
European airline traffic has been recovering this year from a prolonged economic downturn as well as from the effects of the Iraq war and the SARS outbreak in 2003.
Lufthansa, Fraport's biggest airline customer at Frankfurt, said last week it carried 13.9 percent more traffic in August as the pickup in the Asian and American economies boosted long-haul flights from Europe.
Fraport's larger British rival BAA, which owns Europe's biggest airport London Heathrow, said on Friday its passenger count rose 3.7 percent last month for its busiest-ever August.
Fraport's six airports, which also include Frankfurt-Hahn and Turkey's Antalya Airport, had 8.37 million passengers in August, an increase of 5.1 percent from a year earlier.
Frankfurt Airport's traffic increased 6.9 percent in the first eight months of this year from the year-earlier period.
Airmail declined 8.4 percent in August at Frankfurt to 8,645 tonnes following service reductions in the airport's domestic overnight airmail network.
