{
  "id": 17930131,
  "title": "Aviation: Premium customers save Lufthansa's quarter",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/luftfahrt-premiumkunden-retten-das-quartal-von-lufthansa",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-11-03T07:32:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/dienstleister/luftfahrt-premiumkunden-retten-das-quartal-von-lufthansa/100265034.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "Frankfurt - Despite geopolitical crises, Lufthansa's revenue rose by nine percent to 12.2 billion euros in the third quarter, according to the airline's latest figures. The adjusted operating result, excluding interest and taxes (EBIT), increased from 1.3 to 1.4 billion euros. The numbers, announced on Tuesday morning, met analyst expectations, which had previously forecasted a revenue of 12.19 billion euros. Since the start of the year, the company has reported a revenue of 32.1 billion euros (compared to 29.6 billion euros last year) and a normalized profit of 1.2 billion euros (compared to 1.5 billion euros last year).\n\nHowever, management has lowered its own forecast for the second time this year, citing high fuel prices. The normalized profit for the year is expected to be between 1.7 and two billion euros. In early August, the company board had already revised the profit forecast downwards, from over two billion euros to between 1.7 and 2.2 billion euros. Lufthansa Group CEO Carsten Spohr stated in the company's announcement: \"The past quarter was the highest-revenue quarter in the history of the Lufthansa Group. With increasing revenues despite constant high demand and strict cost discipline, we managed to compensate for the nearly half-billion euro increase in fuel costs.\"",
  "summary": "Europe's largest airline group can more than offset the high fuel costs. Nevertheless, management is adjusting the forecast downwards slightly for the second time this year.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}