FRANKFURT, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Air Berlin said it carried 8.7 percent more passengers in September than in the year-earlier period, helped by recent acquisitions.
Germany's second-biggest airline after Lufthansa last year took over routes from TUI Travel's TUIfly and this year boosted its stake in Austrian carrier NIKI.
The carrier said on Thursday it carried 3.65 million passengers in September. But its load factor -- a measure of capacity utilisation -- widened only slightly, by 0.1 percentage point to 82.7 percent.
(Reporting by Maria Sheahan) Keywords: AIRBERLIN/TRAFFIC (maria.sheahan@thomsonreuters.com; +49 69 7565 1286; Reuters Messaging: maria.sheahan.thomsonreuters.com@thomsonreuters.net) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2010. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters.
Germany's second-biggest airline after Lufthansa last year took over routes from TUI Travel's TUIfly and this year boosted its stake in Austrian carrier NIKI.
The carrier said on Thursday it carried 3.65 million passengers in September. But its load factor -- a measure of capacity utilisation -- widened only slightly, by 0.1 percentage point to 82.7 percent.
(Reporting by Maria Sheahan) Keywords: AIRBERLIN/TRAFFIC (maria.sheahan@thomsonreuters.com; +49 69 7565 1286; Reuters Messaging: maria.sheahan.thomsonreuters.com@thomsonreuters.net) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2010. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters.