Lufthansa Sets New Record Highs in Passenger, Cargo Transportation

Lufthansa is heading for new records after the third quarter 2006 with the highest ever booking numbers in the first nine months of a year. Lufthansa Cargo is also still on track after posting a marked rise in transported tonnage and utilization.

From January through September, Lufthansa carried 40.2 million passengers, an increase of 3.6 percent from the first nine months of 2005. The passenger load factor fell fractionally to 75.4 percent because capacity, up by 1.2 percent.

Lufthansa Cargo raised transported tonnage of freight and mail year-on-year by 1.7 per cent to 1.3 million tons. Although capacity was down slightly, the cargo carrier spiked sales by 3.4 percent. This significantly improved the cargo load factor by 2.9 percentage points to 66.9 percent.

The Lufthansa Group raised overall utilization of passenger and cargo aircraft in the nine-month term by 1.1 percentage points to 71.8 percent.