Lufthansa Group carries 145 million passengers in 2019

January 13, 2020, 1:00 p.m.

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Annual balance: the airlines of the Lufthansa Group set a new passenger record last year with 145.2 million passengers. Nevertheless, it is not enough for Europe’s top position. This goes back to Ireland.

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The airlines in the Lufthansa Group carried 145.2 million passengers last year. With this, the crane airlines increased their passenger numbers by around 2.9 million passengers or around 2.3 percent. The Lufthansa Group announced the annual figures on Monday (January 13). The average utilization of the machines rose by one percentage point to 82.5 percent.

The graphic shows the percentage of passengers in the Lufthansa Group in 2019.Source: Company information

The network airlines of the Lufthansa Passage, Swiss and Austrian Airlines groups were able to carry more passengers last year than in the previous year. The passenger numbers of the cheap subsidiary Eurowings were almost at the 2018 level.

• Lufthansa passage Although it transported almost half of all travelers with around 71.3 million passengers, it recorded the lowest growth of all network airlines with growth of two percent.
• The situation is different with the Swiss subsidiary Swiss at 5.7 percent, which was the highest in the group compared to 2017. A total of around 21.6 million passengers flew with the Swiss.
• The third network airline also posted above-average growth Austrian Airlines, The growth of Austrians was 5.1 percent compared to the previous year. The Austrians thus transported around 14.7 million travelers.
• The passenger numbers from euro Wings were almost stable at the previous year’s level with a slight decrease of minus 0.2 percent. With almost 38.2 million passengers handled, the cheap brand is the second largest airline in the group.

The numbers in detail:

* = The change relates to the comparison between 2018 and 2019. | Sources: Lufthansa

The Lufthansa Group also improved its other key figures on transport performance: the number of flights rose by almost 1.2 percent year-on-year to around 1.2 million flights.

In the freight business, however, things went down significantly. Despite an increased number of flights, traffic performance fell by 2.1 percent to 10.7 billion tonne-kilometers. The load factor load factor deteriorated by 5.3 percentage points to 61.4 percent.

Ryanair is Europe’s largest airline

In the battle for the crown of Europe, the Lufthansa Group only comes in second place. Permanent rival Ryanair had a passenger volume of around 152 million passengers in 2019, around 6.8 million more than that of Lufthansa. As early as 2016, the Irish of Lufthansa had temporarily chased the throne.

The graphic shows the passenger development of Ryanair and the Lufthansa Group in the past five years.Source: Company information

Also read: This is how the Ryanair Group performed in 2019

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