Lufthansa, Germany’s number one airline, said on Tuesday that its passenger numbers were higher in October, as demand increased across all regions.

Lufthansa said in a statement it carried 9.671 million passengers in October, 2.4 percent more than during the same month last year.

At the same time, capacity increased by 1.8 percent so that the so-called seat-load factor, which measures the number of seats filled on flights, increased by 1.6 percentage points to 80.5 percent, the statement said.

Lufthansa — which also owns Austrian Airlines and SWISS — said the number of passengers on Lufthansa-only flights rose by 3.0 percent to 7.127 million last month.

Austrian Airlines passengers edged up by 0.9 percent to 1.038 million and the number of passengers flying with SWISS crept up 0.5 percent at 1.507 million.

“The airlines reported improvements in all regions. European traffic saw the steepest rise,” Lufthansa said.

The volume of freight transported by its Lufthansa Cargo unit increased by 0.7 percent to 150,000 tonnes last month, the statement added.

SOURCE AFP