After a lucrative summer quarter, Lufthansa sees itself on the right track out of the Corona crisis.
"The Lufthansa Group has put the pandemic behind it economically and is optimistic about the future," said CEO Carsten Spohr when he presented the quarterly figures in Frankfurt on Thursday.
The MDax group had already doubled its profit forecast for 2022 last week and is now aiming for an operating result (adjusted EBIT) of over one billion euros.
The Management Board also expects a profit for the otherwise rather weak fourth quarter.
In addition, Lufthansa now wants to repay the remaining state aid for its foreign subsidiaries Austrian and Brussels by the end of December.
In the third quarter Lufthansa once again showed a positive result.
The surplus was 809 million euros in the busiest travel season of the year after a loss of 72 million euros a year earlier.
The group was able to more than quadruple its operating profit to around 1.1 billion euros.
For the group's passenger division, it was the first quarterly operating profit since the beginning of the pandemic - also due to the significant increase in ticket prices.
The freight division Lufthansa Cargo achieved another record value and intends to exceed its record operating profit of 2021 in the current year.
The maintenance division Lufthansa Technik is also expecting a record result in 2022, it said.