After the big Bmi takeover, Lufthansa is now looking at a 13.4 percent year on year rise in passenger traffic for August. The carrier went on to say that last month’s seat sales had actually risen 9 percent on 2008, but only by 2.1 percent if the figures of the British carrier were not included. Thus, the successful takeover of Bmi has helped Lufthansa find growth.

Lufthansa went on to say that a 14 percent year on year jump in European capacity, due to the consolidation of Bmi, had been met by a 19.2 percent increase in demand. Of course, these August figures were defined by the weak marketplace and the effects of strike actions last year.

Either way, Lufthansa was able to show growth in August for most of its group figures. Lufthansa load factors went up by 1.4 percent year on year, and the carrier also saw a 5.9 percent increase in the number of flights it offered. The Lufthansa Passenger Airlines Figures, which did include the Lufthansa Regional and Lufthansa Italia, were up on last year’s numbers as well, except for the number of flights offered.

In August, Lufthansa was able to carry 4.9 million passengers. This is an increase of about 0.4 percent on last year’s numbers. The capacity and seat revenue numbers for last month rose by 1 percent and 3.2 percent year on year respectively. The load factor was able to see a increase of 1.7 percent. As far as regions go, Lufthansa said that Europe was the only place to see a drop in passenger sales in August – the numbers fell by 1.2 percent year on year.