{"id":26512,"date":"2015-07-30T11:50:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T11:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=26512"},"modified":"2015-07-30T11:50:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T11:50:58","slug":"lufthansa-sees-q2-profit-soar-helped-by-cheaper-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lufthansa-sees-q2-profit-soar-helped-by-cheaper-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa sees Q2 profit soar, helped by cheaper fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lufthansa says its earnings trebled in the second quarter compared with a year earlier, helped by falling fuel costs. <\/p>\n<p>Deutsche Lufthansa AG, which includes airlines such as Swiss, Austrian Airlines and Germanwings, on Thursday reported net earnings of 529 million euros ($584 million) for the April-June period, up from 173 million euros a year earlier. Revenue rose 8.9 percent to 8.39 billion euros from 7.7 billion euros. <\/p>\n<p>Lufthansa confirmed its full-year outlook for adjusted pre-tax earnings of over 1.5 billion euros before strike costs. <\/p>\n<p>The second quarter saw no strikes by Lufthansa&#8217;s pilots in a long-running dispute that has led to repeated disruptions. <\/p>\n<p>Chief financial officer Simone Menne said, alongside &#8220;extra momentum&#8221; for Lufthansa&#8217;s passenger airlines, &#8220;the fall in fuel costs is largely responsible for the improvement in our results.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lufthansa says its earnings trebled in the second quarter compared with a year earlier, helped by falling fuel costs. Deutsche Lufthansa AG, which includes airlines such as Swiss, Austrian Airlines and Germanwings, on Thursday reported net earnings of 529 million euros ($584 million) for the April-June period, up from 173 million euros a year earlier. Revenue rose 8.9 percent to 8.39 billion euros from 7.7 billion euros. Lufthansa confirmed its full-year outlook for adjusted pre-tax earnings of over 1.5 billion euros before strike costs. The second quarter saw no strikes by Lufthansa&#8217;s pilots in a long-running dispute that has led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}