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Indice: DAX
Deutsche Lufthansa AG ranks
upfront among the world’s leading airlines. As an Aviation Group, Lufthansa
adheres firmly to economic and strategic criteria, focusing on the core
competencies of its six business areas: passenger traffic, logistics, MRO,
catering, leisure travel, and IT services. The Group attaches overriding
importance to quality and innovation, safety and reliability.
Lufthansa
passengers count up in first quarter
Lufthansa Cargo posts appreciable
rise in capacity utilisation
11.04.06
Lufthansa reports further
growth. After posting an all-time high of 51.3 million passengers last
year, growth continued in the first three months of this year. The Lufthansa
passenger airlines carried 11.4 million passengers in the first quarter,
an increase of 2.8 per cent on the year-earlier level. Since the rise of
one per cent in revenue passenger-kilometres lagged behind the increase
in capacity (+3.1 per cent), the seat load factor fell by 1.5 percentage
points to 71.8 per cent.
The volume of freight and
mail transported by Lufthansa Cargo was marginally down on the first quarter
last time round to 410,000 tonnes. Although available capacity was scaled
back by 3.4 per cent, the cargo carrier lifted sales by 1.1 per cent. The
cargo load factor improved in consequence by 3.1 percentage points to 68.3
per cent.
Overall capacity utilisation
on passenger and cargo flights rose in the first quarter by 0.3 percentage
points to 70.3 per cent.
The Lufthansa Group will
be publishing the business figures for the first three months on 11 May
2006. They will also be available for download on the www.lufthansa-financials.com
website.
Deutsche Lufthansa AG
Corporate Communications
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