Frankfurt - Lufthansa, Germany's number one airline, said on Tuesday that its passenger numbers rose again in January.
Lufthansa said in a statement it carried 6.943 million passengers in last month, 2.0% more than during the same month last year.
At the same time, the airline reduced the number of flights by 1.2%.
That meant the so-called seat-load factor, which measures the number of seats filled on flights, increased by 0.8 percentage point to 75.6% in January.
"The airlines of Lufthansa group improved the load factors for their aircraft once again in the new year," the statement said.
In addition to the Lufthansa brand, the group also owns SWISS and Austrian Airlines.
The volume of freight transported by its Lufthansa Cargo unit increased by 1.2% to 116 000 tonnes in January, the statement added.