Lufthansa warns 2026 profit may fall as fuel costs, strikes bite

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2026-08-04

Frankfurt (dpa) - Lufthansa said the fallout from the Iran war and employee strikes weighed heavily on its second-quarter results and warned that full-year profit could decline in 2026. The airline group's adjusted earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) is now expected come in at between ?1.7 billion and ?2.2 billion ($1.95 billion-$2.53 billion) this year. Chief Executive Carsten Spohr had previously forecast that adjusted EBIT would exceed l......

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