Lufthansa Group reports Jan-2010 traffic highlights

The consolidation of the traffic data for bmi and Austrian Airlines continues to have a strong effect on the performance figures for the Lufthansa Group. On a like-for-like basis Lufthansa and SWISS carried 4.8 million passengers in January, 0.6 per cent more than in the same month last year. The increase in capacity (+3.3%) was almost fully sold (+3.0%), so that the passenger load factor remained more or less the same at 74.0 per cent (-0.3 pp). Higher sales, sometimes substantially so, were reported for all traffic regions with the exception of Europe.