BERLIN -Germany's biggest airline, Deutsche Lufthansa AG, says its third-quarter earnings dropped by 21 percent amid global economic uncertainty and high fuel prices.
Lufthansa on Thursday reported net earnings of euro494 million ($687 million) for the July-September period — down from euro628 million a year earlier.
The group's revenue rose to euro8.08 billion from euro7.57 billion — an increase of 6.7 percent.
Lufthansa already issued a profit warning last month, blaming a disappointing performance in August, deteriorating booking forecasts for the airline industry and wider economic uncertainty. It stuck to the revised full-year outlook it gave then.
The Lufthansa group includes Swiss International Airlines, Austrian Airlines, budget offshoot Germanwings and Britain's BMI.
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