Additional Businesses and Group Functions

Additional Businesses and Group Functions include the Group’s service companies, above all Lufthansa Aviation Training and Lufthansa Systems, as well as the Group Functions for the Lufthansa Group. At the start of the 2025 financial year, Lufthansa Industry Solutions, which previously formed part of the MRO business segment, was allocated to Additional Businesses and Group Functions. The figures for the previous year have been adjusted accordingly. Lufthansa AirPlus Servicekarten GmbH was sold in July 2024.

Lufthansa Aviation Training continues to benefit from high level of demand for training

Lufthansa Aviation Training GmbH (LAT) is one of the world’s leading aviation training companies, providing vocational and professional training for cockpit and cabin crew at twelve international training centres. LAT’s customer portfolio includes the companies of the Lufthansa Group as well as more than 250 German and international airlines.

Following a number of years characterised by increased training requirements in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the level of demand for training for cockpit and cabin crews returned to normal in the 2025 financial year. Accordingly, LAT achieved a stable training volume in its Pilot Training and Safety Service Training business areas.

In 2025, the company once again allocated significant capital expenditure to new training equipment and infrastructure. At the start of the year, LAT inaugurated new simulators for long-haul aircraft types at its sites in Switzerland and Austria. At Zurich Airport, a state-of-the-art full flight simulator (FFS) and several cabin training devices for the Airbus A350 have entered into service. In Vienna, LAT added an FFS for the Boeing 787-900 “Dreamliner” to its fleet of simulators, its first latest-generation long-haul model at this site. These acquisitions align with LAT’s strategy of offering optimal training in close proximity to its airline customers.

In 2025, Lufthansa Aviation Training continued to actively participate in the development of innovative digital training solutions. At the most recent European Aviation Training Summit (EATS) it presented, for the first time, the virtual reality prototype resulting from its D-CEET research project. This project concerns a Digital Cabin Emergency Evacuation Trainer which is able to simulate emergency scenarios such as a drop in cabin pressure, fire fighting or evacuations. All training sessions are fully digital and allow for variable levels of difficulty as well as customisation in line with airline-specific procedures.

LAT’s prestigious European Flight Academy (EFA) has developed positively. It registered a continuously high level of demand in the reporting year. Around 300 trainee pilots began their training at LAT’s training locations in Germany, Switzerland and the USA.

LAT is also expanding its business activities beyond traditional airline training. Its offering includes not only fear-of-flying seminars held by psychologists and pilots but also tailored Human Factors Academy training courses to strengthen social skills.

LAT’s Adjusted EBIT amounted to EUR 19m in the 2025 financial year (previous year: EUR 21m).

Lufthansa Systems achieves further progress as a leading IT provider in the airline industry

The 2025 financial year marked not only the 30th year of Lufthansa Systems but also another important step in its successful development as a leading IT provider for the airline industry. The company further consolidated its position and achieved significant progress in a market environment which proved challenging but also promising.

It has given its international presence a lasting boost through the development of a large number of new customer relationships and by deepening existing customer relationships. The development of a new location in India was another key milestone. This will expand its global delivery structure and provide additional technological expertise.

At the same time, the launch of a comprehensive internal transformation programme provided the basis for significant profitability growth and efficiency gains in key business segments.

The company further expanded its business within the Lufthansa Group and consolidated its role as a strategic digitalisation partner. In its external market, Lufthansa Systems likewise continues to play a key role in the success of its roughly 350 customers worldwide.

Lufthansa Systems’ Adjusted EBIT came to EUR 9m in the 2025 financial year (previous year: EUR 2m).

Lufthansa Industry Solutions delivers innovative value contribution to the digital transformation

Lufthansa Industry Solutions is one of the 20 largest IT consultancy firms in Germany and supports digitalisation initiatives inside and outside the Lufthansa Group. The company has more than 3,000 employees and comprises ten entities and offices in Germany, the USA, Switzerland and Albania, including the Audi joint venture amplimind GmbH and Cargo Future Communications GmbH.

Lufthansa Industry Solutions continued its growth trajectory in the reporting year and made an ongoing contribution to the Lufthansa Group’s digital performance. The focus of its advisory work for the Lufthansa Group was formerly primarily on refinements to the HR and finance systems, as well as IT solutions for maintenance at Lufthansa Technik and logistics at Lufthansa Cargo. Its business with the airlines in the Lufthansa Group has since been expanded significantly. In addition to developing software solutions and strengthening cybersecurity, know-how from Lufthansa Industry Solutions on artificial intelligence and data structuring is particularly in demand. An efficiency programme to optimise costs enabled profits to be sustainably increased and delivered key earnings and synergy contributions to the Lufthansa Group’s ONE IT programme.

Lufthansa Industry Solutions currently has more than 300 external customers, most of them core customers with long-term service agreements. Its sector focus extends beyond aviation and includes automotive, logistics, industry, retail and energy.

Lufthansa Industry Solution’s Adjusted EBIT amounted to EUR 40m in the 2025 financial year (previous year: EUR 28m).

Group Functions result is above previous year’s level

The earnings for the Additional Businesses and Group Functions business segment are largely determined by the Group Functions, whose earnings reflect the currency hedging and financing activities carried out by Deutsche Lufthansa AG on behalf of the companies in the Group. The result is therefore generally heavily exposed to exchange rate movements.

The operating income of the Group Functions rose by 9% to EUR 1,717m (previous year: EUR 1,581m) in the reporting year. This reflected higher exchange rate gains in particular. Operating expenses of EUR 1,934m were 6% higher than in the previous year (previous year: EUR 1,831m), due above all to higher variable salary components as part of staff costs. Group Functions’ Adjusted EBIT improved by 13% to EUR ⁠-⁠217m in the 2025 financial year (previous year: EUR ⁠-⁠250m).

Result for Additional Businesses and Group Functions up on previous year

Operating income from Additional Businesses and Group Functions declined by 8% in the 2025 financial year to EUR 3,239m (previous year: EUR 3,537m). The sale of AirPlus was one factor here. Its income is still included in the previous year’s figures.

At EUR 3,400m, operating expenses were 9% lower than in the previous year (previous year: EUR 3,744m), likewise on account of the sale of AirPlus.

Adjusted EBIT improved by 36% to EUR ⁠-⁠92m in the reporting year (previous year: EUR ⁠-⁠144m), supported by earnings improvements at Lufthansa Systems, Lufthansa Industry Solutions and the Group Functions as well as the absence of AirPlus’s negative result from the previous year. EBIT came to EUR ⁠-⁠90m (previous year: EUR ⁠-⁠79m).