Lufthansa Group Airlines welcome more than 13.3 million passengers on board in October 2019

In October 2019, the Lufthansa Group airlines welcomed around 13.3 million passengers. This shows an increase of 1.1% compared to the previous year’s month. Capacity was up 1.4% over the previous year, at the same time, sales increased by 2.7%. The load factor increased by 1.0 point to 82.8%.
Cargo capacity increased by 1.7% year-on-year, while cargo sales decreased by 3.0% in revenue ton-kilometer terms. The Cargo load factor decreaed by 3.0 points to 62.4%.

The Network Airlines including Lufthansa German Airlines, SWISS and Austrian Airlines carried around 9.8 million passengers in October – 2.5% more than in the prior-year period. Capacity increased by 3.3% in October and the sales volume was up by 4.4%. The load factor increased by 0.9 points to 82.8%.

In October, the strongest passenger growth of the network airlines was recorded at the Lufthansa hubs in Zurich and Vienna with 4.4% each. The number of passengers increased by 1.4% in Munich and decreased by 0.2% in Frankfurt. Capacity increased to varying degrees: in Munich by 9.6%, in Frankfurt by 2.1%, in Vienna by 0.5% and in Zurich by 0.2%.

Lufthansa German Airlines transported around 6.5 million passengers in October, a 1.6% increase compared to the same month last year. A 4.7% increase in seat kilometres corresponds to a 5.8% increase in sales. The seat load factor rose by 0.8 points year-on-year to 82.2%.

Eurowings (including Brussels Airlines) carried around 3.6 million passengers in October. Among this total, around 3.3 million passengers were on short-haul flights and around 260,000 flew on long-haul flights. This corresponds to a decrease of 2.3% on short-haul routes and a decrease of 6.5% on long-haul routes compared with the previous year. A 6.5% decline in supply in October was offset by a 4.8% decline in sales, resulting in a load factor of 82.9%, up 1.5 points.

In October, the number of seat-kilometres offered on short-haul routes decreased by 3.6%, while the number of seat-kilometres sold declined by 2.5%. The load factor on these flights was with 83.1% 0.9 points higher than in October 2018. On long-haul flights, the seat load factor rose by 2.7 points to 82.5% over the same period. The 12.6% decrease in capacity was offset by a 9.6% decrease in sales.