Frankfurt am Main International Airport or the Flughafen Frankfurt am Main or Rheine-Main-Flughafen is situated about 12 km from the city centre, on its southwest side. Operated by Fraport this public airport has the IATA and ICAO codes as FRA and EDDF; in Europe the code is FF. The airport serves the most number of destinations in the world. There are 2 terminals and plans are afoot to construct a third.

Opened in 1936, this airport was used by the military during the WW II. You could use the long distance or the local trains to get to the airport; the long distance railway line is the last stop of the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line and the regional railway station is a way to get to the S-Bahn lines S8 and S9. The station is placed between the four-lane B43 and A3. This airport serves as one of the two hubs for Lufthansa; Bulgaria Air, Austrian Airways, Kuwait Airways, Japan Airlines, and Royal Jordanian are some of the other airlines at this airport.

In 1988, a bomb went off on a Boeing 747 that was the first leg of a Pan Am Flight killing all the travelers onboard. German authorities arrested 3 suspected Islamic terrorists in 2007 for their alleged involvement in plotting a terror attack on the airport.

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