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The main German airline, Lufthansa, said yesterday that passenger traffic rose 9.2 percent in August, which had begun to fly an Airbus A380 in Beijing and then fly one in Johannesburg.

cargo operations had benefited from a rebound in world trade in both, the airline said in a statement.

The Lufthansa passenger numbers reached 5.4 million last month, while the number of passengers carried by all the Lufthansa Group increased 20 percent to 8.5 million people, the statement said.On a comparable basis that does not include traffic with Austrian Airlines and BMI, two companies that Lufthansa has been fully integrated since last year, the number of passengers gained 3.3 percent.

The factor of cargo security group, which measures the total of its aircraft remained at a relatively high 83.2 percent, while the Lufthansa aircraft flew in 82.9 percent of capacity due to strong demand during the summer of German.

On 1 September, Lufthansa launched a weekly service from Frankfurt to Beijing with an Airbus A380 with 526 people capacity in the configuration chosen by the German airline. September 12 will also fly an A380 in Johannesburg twice a week.

stronger global trade with North and Latin America has boosted activity by Lufthansa, which carried 155,000 tons of cargo in August, up 17.9 percent over the same month last year, the statement said.

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