Air France-KLM March traffic hit by Japan, Mideast
Market Watch Friday 8th April, 2011
0.00% ) on Friday said March traffic rose 1%, while capacity that rose 3.5%, while the load factor fell 1.9 points to 78.6%. The airline said calendar effects, the Japanese earthquake and tsunami and political unrest in the Middle East and Africa all affected activity in the month. Unit revenues held up well in Asia, excluding Japan, Latin America and Caribbean and Ocean networks, but could not offset the decline in troubled regions. Unit revenue per available seat per kilometer (RASK), excluding currency was down relative to March 2010, which benefited from an uptick in traffic and revenues as well as the calendar positioning of Easter. Forward bookigns for summer remain of "high quality," both in terms of volumes and revenues, it said. For cargo businses traffic fell 0.3% and capacity ...
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