infrastructure we would expect that all right that would be the advice to the german finance minister from fabia lynn from homs book foundation thank you so much for being here today. well more passengers more coghlan more profits than ever before twenty seventeen was a bump a year for tons of c.e.o. has plenty of good news he can share with the carriers shareholders today at the annual meeting but aviation experts say the challenge for germany's flagship kerio will be to keep the good times rolling beyond the end of the year look turns is flying high on the back of its twenty seventeen annual report germany's leading airline carried more passengers than ever before and it defended its position as europe's largest carrier thanks to higher income in its cargo logistics and maintenance units of terms is looking at the most profitable year in its history. the bottom line is that lufthansa saw net profits jump by a third to almost two point four billion euros and its free cash flow which allows the airline to maintain its fleet and pay for new acquisitions almost doubled to two point two billion euros an