Lufthansa planning aircraft order

Lufthansa Group is planning to order 108 new aircraft – up to 100 short and medium-range aircraft and eight long-range aircraft. The carrier is in negotiations with Airbus and Boeing but the deliveries will be made between 2015 and 2025. Lufthansa Group posted revenues of €30.1 billion – up 4.9% over last year – and generated an operating profit of €524 million, a decline of 36.1%. The Group had forecast an operating profit for 2012 in the mid-three digit million euro range. The operating result contains restructuring costs arising from measures taken in the SCORE Change for Success programme, which