Lufthansa Passenger Airlines (incl. Germanwings) and SWISS moderately expanded their capacity (+1.6% and +0.4%) and recorded slightly higher sales (+1.0% and +1.6%). Austrian Airlines continued their significant cut in capacity (-11.1%) while sales declined similarly.
The regionally strong differences in capacity steering were continued. The Passenger Airlines Group cut capacity by 3.2 per cent in Europe,while the long-haul capacity in total was up year- on-year. Capacity was thereby increased on Americas routes (+6.1%) to match the good sales environment, capacity to Asia/Pacific was increased only moderately (+0.8%) and the offer to Middle East/Africa was reduced significantly (-6.5%).
Also in the freight business sales were almost on par with last year’s level (-0.6%). Lufthansa Cargo reduced capacity by 2.2 per cent and thus increased the cargo load factor by 1.1 percentage points (69.4%).