German airline Lufthansa on Tuesday posted a decline in second-quarter earnings, hurt by price competition on short-haul routes in Germany and Austria as well as rising fuel costs.
Fuel costs were 255 million euros higher than in the previous year, it said.
Lufthansa said it expected the European market to remain challenging until at least the end of this year.
The company maintained its guidance for 2019, having in June cut its full-year profit forecast due to lower prices and higher fuel costs compounding the effect of losses at its budget subsidiary Eurowings.
The market declined more than 5 percent from 15 EUR to 14.2 EUR.
