In October 2018, the Lufthansa Group airlines welcomed around 13.2 million passengers. This shows an increase of 9% compared to the previous year’s month. Capacity was up 8.9% over the previous year, at the same time, traffic increased by 9.4%. Consequently the seat load factor increased by 0.4 points to 81.7% as compared to October 2017.
Eurowings (including Brussels Airlines) carried around 3.7 million passengers in October. Among this total, 3.4 million passengers were on short-haul flights and 280,000 flew on long-haul flights. This amounts to an increase of 13.4 percent in comparison to the previous year. October capacity was 17.9% above its prior-year level, while traffic was up 19.0%, resulting in an increase of seat load factor by 0.8 points to 81.4%.
