Lufthansa is sustaining its upward trend. Never before have so many passengers flown with the airline in the first six months of a year. Lufthansa Cargo is also still on course with increased transported tonnage and utilisation.

In the six-month January through June term, Lufthansa carried 25.5 million passengers, an increase of 3.3 per cent on the year-ago period. Since capacity, up by 1.5 per cent, rose marginally more than revenue passenger-kilometres (+0.9 per cent), the seat load factor fell slightly to 74.0 per cent. Lufthansa Cargo lifted transported tonnage and mail by 0.7 per cent to 853,000 tonnes. Sales also rose by 2.0 per cent despite a slight reduction in capacity. The cargo load factor was consequently up sharply by 2.4 percentage points to 67.2 per cent.

Overall capacity utilisation on passenger and cargo aircraft improved year-on-year in the first half-year by 0.8 percentage points to 71.1 per cent. The Lufthansa Group will publish its first-half financial results on 27 July. They will then be available for downloading at  www.lufthansa-financials.com.