What airport is FRA?
Why the code is FRA
The first three letters of Frankfurt.
The airport authority or a contemporaneous record states this directly.
The airport
- IATA code
- FRA
- ICAO code
- EDDF
- Airport
- Frankfurt Airport
- City
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Opened
- 1936
- Code origin
- Documented
Frankfurt has the largest air cargo operation in Europe and its own long-distance railway station, from which trains run to most of Germany — Lufthansa sells some connections as train legs with flight numbers. The airport sits in a forest and the surrounding trees are legally protected, which has constrained every expansion attempt.
The other code, EDDF
Every airport has two codes. The three-letter IATA code, FRA, is the one on your boarding pass and your luggage tag, and it is assigned for commercial use. The four-letter ICAO code, EDDF, is the one pilots and controllers use, and it is assigned geographically: the first letter or two identify the region, so every airport in the same part of the world shares a prefix. That is why EDDF looks nothing like FRA.
Common questions
- What airport is FRA?
- Frankfurt Airport, in Frankfurt, Germany.
- Why is Frankfurt's airport called FRA?
- The first three letters of Frankfurt.
- What is the difference between FRA and EDDF?
- FRA is the IATA code, used commercially — tickets, timetables, luggage tags. EDDF is the ICAO code, used operationally by pilots and air traffic control, and assigned geographically by region.
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- Germany Capital, area, population and currency
- The flag of Germany Colours, symbols and lookalikes
- Airport codes in Germany 3 here
- What airport is MUC? Munich Airport, Munich
- What airport is BER? Berlin Brandenburg Airport, Berlin
Sources
- Official vendor product documentation — At One Place