Airline – Lufthansa is aiming for a profit of 1.5 billion euros – Economy

The return of the desire to travel has made Lufthansa more confident. The board of directors raised its target for adjusted operating profit (EBIT) and is now aiming for around 1.5 billion euros in 2022 instead of more than one billion, as the airline announced on Tuesday. The average revenue in the passenger business would be well above the level of the year before the corona pandemic. In addition, record results should be achieved at Lufthansa Cargo and Technik. The Lufthansa share price rose by almost five percent. In the spring, Spohr did not even want to promise black numbers for 2022 after the group had suffered an operating loss of more than 2.3 billion euros in the second Corona year 2021. As business recovered in the following months, he first announced an operating profit of more than half a billion euros in the summer – and doubled his forecast in October to more than one billion euros. Only a few experts had expected that it could be 1.5 billion. Lufthansa wants to present its annual figures on March 3rd.

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