Ferrying about 1 million passengers from the Middle East to Germany and onward in 2012, Lufthansa continues to make its mark on a region that aviation giants such as Emirates and Etihad call home. Executive sat with Lufthansa’s Carsten Schaeffer, vice president of sales and services in Southeast Europe, Middle East and Africa, to talk about Lufthansa’s success in the region. What is the size of Lufthansa as we speak at the end of April 2013? To do our numbers justice, I should talk about the full year 2012 in which we had 75 million passengers in Lufthansa Passenger Airlines and 103 million in the whole group, which includes Swiss International Airlines, Austrian, Air Brussels and German Wings. If we talk about flights that originate from the Middle East and Africa, who do you see as your biggest competitors? In Africa, Air France is our biggest competitor, mainly in the
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