The airlines of the Lufthansa Group welcomed more than 13 million passengers on board in May 2019

In May 2019, the Lufthansa Group's airlines welcomed approximately 13.2 million pbadengers on board their aircraft. This corresponds to a 2.8% increase over the same month of the previous year. The number of seat-kilometers available was 3.5% higher than the previous year, while sales rose 5.7%. This results in a seat load factor of 81.1%, 1.7 percentage points higher than in May 2018.

In May, freight volumes increased by 7.3% over the previous year, while tonne-kilometers decreased by 2.5%. This results in a payload factor of 2.9 points lower than 61.3%.

Network Airlines with about 9.7 million pbadengers

Lufthansa Airlines, SWISS and Austrian Airlines transported a total of about 9.7 million pbadengers in May, up 5% from the same month last year. The offer in seat-kilometers was expanded in May by 5.1% compared to the previous year. Sales increased by 8% over the same period. As a result, the pbadenger load factor increased by 2.2 percentage points to 81.4%.

Munich turnstile with the highest growth in supply and number of pbadengers

The fastest-growing network airlines are on the Munich hub, with pbadenger growth of 7.1%. Growth was 4.4% in Vienna, 3.6% in Zurich and 2.1% in Frankfurt. The supply of seat-kilometers increased the most in Munich with 9.1%. In Zurich, supply increased by 7.3%, in Vienna by 4.2% and in Frankfurt by 2.1%.

In May, Lufthansa carried about 6.5 million pbadengers on its planes, up 5.1% from the same month last year. A 4.5% increase in the number of available seat-kilometers in May was offset by a 7.8% increase in sales. The pbadenger load factor increased by 2.5 percentage points to 81.7% over the same month of the previous year.

Eurowings with around 3.5 million pbadengers

Eurowings (including Brussels Airlines) carried around 3.5 million pbadengers, including about 3.3 million on short-haul flights and 250,000 on long-haul flights. This corresponds to a reduction of 3.1% on the short-haul and an increase of 3.2% on the long haul compared to the previous year. A 3.2% drop in supply in May was offset by a 3.9% drop in sales, which resulted in a pbadenger load factor reduced by 0.7 percentage point. 79.6%.

On short-haul routes, available seat-kilometers were reduced by 2.8% in May, while seat-kilometers sold decreased by 5.7% over the same period. This translates into a lower pbadenger load factor of 2.4 percentage points on these flights compared to May 2018, of 80.3%. Over the same period, the occupancy factor for long-haul pbadengers increased 3.3 percentage points to 77.9%. Here, a 3.9% reduction in supply was offset by a 0.3% increase in sales.

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