Austrian Airlines Group closed the third quarter of 2006 with a turnover of EUR 748.9m, 3.2% more than the same period last year. The operative result of the first nine months was EUR 24.1m (+72.6%), mostly thanks to the growth of traffic (+7.8%): 8,412,709 passengers were carried in the first nine months of 2006. In the third quarter EBIT turned from 11.8m to 41m. Despite the increase of fuel costs,...