Lufthansa Group boosts April traffic

Lufthansa Group flew 11.2m passengers during April, a 25.1% increase from the same month of 2016. Passenger traffic in RPKs increased at a similar rate, 25.2%, on ASK capacity increase of 15.8%. Load factor was up 6.2 percentage points to 82.3% as a result. All group airlines reported traffic increases, with Austrian Airlines RPK traffic up 21.6%, SWISS up 18.2%, and Lufthansa up 12%. Point-to-point airlines, which include Eurowings and now 100% owned Brussels Airlines, saw traffic gains of 148.4% as ASK capacity rose 129.7% with the inclusion of the Belgian carrier. Lufthansa Group’s cargo traffic grew 6% in revenue cargo tonne km terms during April. Cargo capacity in available tonne kms was 3.8% higher, leading to a 1.4 percentage point increase in freight load factor to 69.4%. <br/>