Lufthansa strike leads to passenger growth at SWISS and Austrian Airlines in November

The Lufthansa Group transported around 7.6 million passengers in November which corresponds to an increase of 5.9 percent compared to the previous year. The seat kilometres offered increased by 9.3 percent and sales were simultaneously up by 10.1 percent. Load factor thus increased by 0.5 percent to 75.8 percent. Austrian Airlines was able to record the largest growth in the number of passengers with 10.9 percent. At SWISS, growth was smaller at 4.3 percent. The growth of both airlines can, amongst other things, be traced back to the Lufthansa strike, during which the airlines deployed larger aircraft on their flights