Lufthansa Group refines forecast for 2013

Lufthansa Group has increased its adjusted operating result by 47% in the first nine months of 2013. Excluding restructuring costs in connection with the Score program (€168m) and project costs for product improvements (€30m), the Group generated an operating profit of about €860m in the period from January to September. This is an increase of around €280m compared with the adjusted result for the same period last year. Including the project and restructuring costs, the operating result for the first nine months came to around €660m. In the same period last year, the Group recorded an operating result of €907m.