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Lufthansa improves traffic performance
More passengers and freight after nine months

11.10.2004
Lufthansa has improved its traffic performance in the first nine months 2004. The Lufthansa Group increased passenger and freight volumes as well as capacity utilisation in comparison to the same period of the prior year.

The number of passengers carried grew by 12.7 per cent to 38.6 million. The 14.3 per cent increase in available capacity was outpaced by the growth in sales, which climbed by 16.1 per cent. As a result, capacity utilisation rose by 1.2 percentage points to 74.3 per cent.

In the first three quarters of the year, Lufthansa Cargo transported around 1.3 million tonnes of freight and mail. This is eleven percent more than in the same period last year. The cargo load factor rose substantially and at 66.2 per cent exceeded the prior-year figure by 2.1 percentage points.

The Lufthansa Group raised its overall load factor (passenger and cargo business) by 1.7 percentage points to 70.9 per cent.

The Lufthansa Group will publish its financial result for the first nine months on 11 November 2004. On that date it will be available for downloading from the Internet at www.lufthansa-financials.com in German and English.

Deutsche Lufthansa AG
Corporate Communications