Lufthansa traffic up marginally in Mar-2011; British Airways strike deadline looms.

Lufthansa reported traffic across its group airlines edged up 0.5% in March. Traffic at the main Lufthansa unit rose 2.3%, to 5.1 million passengers, while traffic at SWISS was up 3.9% to 1.3 million. Austrian Airlines traffic declined 2.4%, while bmi traffic fell 14.3%.