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The Lufthansa group welcomed last month 13.3 million pbadengers a traffic increase of 11.3% over the same month last year. Among its subsidiaries, the airline Brussels Airlines grew by 9.2% with 926,901 pbadengers .
In June 2018, the airlines Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Swiss International Air Lines, Brussels Airlines and the low cost Eurowings welcomed 13,255 million pbadengers . This represents an increase of 11.8% over the same month of the previous year. SKO capacity (free seat kilometers) increased 8.3%, while revenue in pbadenger kilometer (PRK) increased 9.3%. The group's load factor gained 0.8 percentage points to 83.5% .
The Lufthansa Group's subsidiaries transported a total of 66.9 million pbadengers to first semester of 2018, " more than ever before ". A load factor of 79.8% was achieved (+0.8 points), which also represents " a historic high " for the first half of the year.
Capacity Freight increased by 5.2% in June, while merchandise sales decreased by 0.6% in terms of tonne-kilometers transported; as a result, the load factor of the cargo activity shows a "corresponding reduction", decreasing by 3.8 percentage points to 65%.
The " airline network companies " Lufthansa German Airlines , SWISS and Austrian Airlines carried 9.7 million pbadengers in June, up 11.1% from the previous year. Compared to the previous year, the number of places available increased by 5.7% in June; sales volume increased by 6.8% over the same period, pushing the seat load factor up from 0.8 percentage points to 84%.
The traffic of the three companies of Star Alliance at the Zurich-Kloten hub experienced particularly strong growth, with pbadenger numbers up 19.2% yoy, followed by Munich Airport (+ 14.3%) and that of Vienna (+ 10.1%). In Frankfurt, pbadenger volume increased by 6.1%. SKO supply also increased to varying degrees: in Munich by 12.5%, in Zurich by 8.4%, in Vienna by 7.7% and in Frankfurt by 1.6%.
Lufthansa German Airlines carried 6.5 million pbadengers in June up 9.2% compared to the same month last year. A 4.7% increase in seat-kilometers in June corresponds to a 4.9% increase in sales; the load factor was 84.1% or 0.1 percentage point higher than the previous year's level
The Eurowings group, including low cost Eurowings (including Germanwings) and Brussels Airlines, transported about 3.6 million pbadengers in June. Of this total, 3.3 million pbadengers were on short-haul flights, while 269,000 were on long-haul flights. This represents an increase of 13.9% over the previous year. Capacity in June was 20.8% above last year's level, while sales volume was up 22%, resulting in a load factor increase of 0.8 percentage of 81.7% .
On short-haul services airlines increased their capacity by 14% and increased their sales by 17.8%, represents a 2.7-point increase in the seat load factor of 83.6% over June 2017. The load factor on long haul decreases by 3.1 percentage points to 77.7% over the same period, after a 37.8% increase in capacity and a 32.5% increase in sales volume over the previous year.
compared to the same period last year, Brussels Airlines welcomed 78,467 more pbadengers in June, a growth of 9.2% . The load factor increased by 2.2 percentage points to a total of 81.8% . The Belgian national airline has recorded the highest growth in the number of its pbadengers on the African network (+ 25.2%), " thanks to new holiday destinations in North Africa and in close cooperation with Thomas Cook, Neckermann and Pegase ". The number of pbadengers traveling on North American flights increased by 14.9%, mainly due to an additional weekly frequency to Washington DC (now a daily flight). Compared with the same month last year, the number of pbadengers registered on the European network in June 2018 increased by 7.6%. On the flights of Middle East 2% more pbadengers chose Brussels Airlines. The number of pbadengers traveling with Brussels Airlines to Asia decreased by 5.6%, due to the drop in the supply of flights.
Despite the decrease in the number of operated flights (-3.3%), capacity in SKO increased by 12.8% due to the replacement of the AVRO jets (100 seats) by Airbus A320s of greater capacity (180 seats). The load factor rose from 79.7% in June last year to 81.8% in June 2018 (+ 2.2%). " Thanks to the increase in its offer, Brussels Airlines has been able to continue to offer competitive fares and attract even more customers. This means, however, that pressure on ticket prices remains very high . These statistics do not include the pbadengers aboard the many charter flights operated by Brussels Airlines on behalf of tour operators.
In the freight sector the filling rate increased by 3.6 points percentage to reach an average of 68% while traffic in RTK (Revenue Ton-Kilometer) increased by 15.2%. The volume of goods transported amounted to 4,458 tons
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