Lufthansa on track to hit revised targets

Lufthansa on track to hit revised targets
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German airline Lufthansa is sticking to recently revised full-year profit targets and plans to boost its operations in the low-cost sector.

Lufthansa, in a statement on Wednesday, said that despite the investment needed for a raft of new strategic measures, it "remains confident of its revised business projections for 2014 and 2015".

"The executive board expects to report an operating profit of around 1.0 billion euros ($A1.50 billion) for the current year."

In June, Lufthansa cut its earnings targets for 2014 and 2015 in the face of disappointing developments in passenger and freight business, and financial fallout from strikes.

But to meet the targets, the airline would scale back the planned expansion of its passenger traffic capacity, withdraw a number of aircraft and cut its freight capacity, the statement explained.

Lufthansa also unveiled plans to beef up its presence in the low-cost sector.

"In the dynamic and highly price-sensitive market segments, our current platforms only enable us to exploit the growth potential to a limited extent, in view of their sometimes over-rigid cost structures," said chief executive Carsten Spohr.

"That's why we are now seeking to tap new growth areas."

Lufthansa's low-cost platform at present is is known as Germanwings.

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