Company portrait

Business activities

Deutsche Lufthansa AG is a global aviation group. The Group operates in five business segments, each dedicated to high quality standards. The five units – the passenger airline business, logistics, MRO, catering and IT services – all play a leading role in the industry in which they operate. The Lufthansa Group includes a total of more than 400 subsidiaries and associated companies.

Organisation

Deutsche Lufthansa AG acts as the parent company with an Executive Board consisting of four members. The Executive Board is responsible for managing the Group, determining its strategy and ensuring a sustainable increase in its ´value. The Supervisory Board appoints and advises the Executive Board and monitors its activities. The Lufthansa passenger airlines as well as the individual business segments are each accountable for their business results. They are monitored by their own supervisory boards, on which members of the Group Executive Board and top management are represented.

Corporate structure

Strategy

Foremost at Lufthansa are such attributes as quality and innovation, safety and reliability. We are well positioned strategically, operationally and financially to negotiate ups-and-downs in the economy. Our corporate strategy is geared to sustainable value creation and is expressed in our commitment to shareholder value. We attach priority to profitability over size.

Group strategy

The Lufthansa Group employed some 117,000 personnel at the end of 2010, and achieved total operating revenue of EUR 27.3 billion for the year.