AUA Remains in the Red in 2011

Companies ♦ Published: October 27, 2011; 11:27 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Austrian carrier improved its operating profit by 30% in the third quarter 2011. A positive result, however, will not be achieved in the full year.

AUA Remains in the Red in 2011 / Picture: © Austrian Airlines / Flickr Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Austrian Airlines achieved an operating profit of € 31.6m in the third quarter of 2011, thereby improving its result by 30% (third quarter of 2010: € 24.3m). Cumulatively, this means an operating loss of € 31.5m for the first nine months of 2011. This is the equivalent of an improvement of 29% compared to the previous year (1-9/2010: € -44.4m). The EBITDA fell by 10.8% to €…