Deutsche Lufthansa Ag Reg (DLAKF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Lufthansa Group Q2 2026 results analyst call. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session you will need to press star 1 and 1 on your telephone and you will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question please press star 1 and 1 again. We do ask callers to please limit yourself to two questions each. Please be advised, today's conference is being recorded. Right now, I'd like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, Marc Medisam. Please go ahead. Thank you very much and also from my side, welcome ladies and gentlemen to the presentation of our second quarter results 2026. With me on the call today are our CEO, Carsten Spohr, and our CFO, Till Streichert, and they will both present our results for the past quarter and discuss our commercial outlook for the remaining six months of the year. And as mentioned afterwards, you have the opportunity to ask two questions so that everybody can participate in the Q&A session. Thanks a lot in advance, and with that, Carsten, over to you. Yeah, thank you, Marc, and a warm welcome to our half-year analyst conference, also on behalf of Till and myself. Obviously, 2026 is a landmark year for Lufthansa as we celebrate our centenary, but maybe more important, it's a time where the industry is facing a highly challenging environment, which is on the one hand shaped by the ongoing Middle East crisis, on the other hand, significantly higher fuel costs, and all that resulting also in bookings being made increasingly with even shorter lead times. The encouraging news is that demand remains extremely stro...