Lufthansa Group reports October traffic

In October 2018, the Lufthansa Group airlines welcomed around 13.2 million passengers – an increase of nine percent compared to the previous year’s month. The available seat kilometres were up 8.9% over the previous year, at the same time, sales increased by 9.4%. Consequently the seat load factor increased by 0.4 percentage points to 81.7% as compared to October 2017. Cargo capacity increased by 5.0% year-on-year, while cargo sales decreased by 1.9% in revenue tonne-kilometre terms. As a result, the cargo load factor showed a corresponding reduction, decreasing by 4.6 percentage points to 65.6%. The network airlines including Lufthansa German