Off the wire
• Economic fugitive returned to China  • Interview: How to operate a successful venue at Milan Expo: China pavilion director  • Turkey ratifies military cooperation agreement with Qatar  • Update: Iran arrests five over deaths of Saudi children in hotel  • Pakistani PM to visit Tajikistan on June 9-10  • Feature: Rwanda in sustainable production campaign  • Roundup: Taliban bomb blast kills 4, Afghan forces kill 11 militants  • Purchases from Asia popular with Slovak shoppers  • Japanese scholars urge settlement of Japan-S.Korea historical issues  • Slovak-Polish gas pipeline receives support from EU  
You are here: 　 Home

Air France-KLM reports rise in passenger traffic in May

Xinhua, June 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

Paris-based Europe's leading airline Air France-KLM reported on Monday a jump in May passenger traffic thanks to the dynamic Latin American market.

The French major airline Air France-KLM saw the group's total passenger traffic rose by 3.2 percent compared to May 2014, the group said in a statement posted on its website.

Flights to and from the Latin American destinations showed the strongest performance with 5.4 percent jump to 2.4 billion euros (2.67 billion U.S. dollars).

Traffic of Africa and Middle East networks lost 0.9 percent due to violent unrest in several countries in the region, it added.

Passenger segment activity gained 0.7 point in load factor to 84.8 percent.

Fewer frequencies pulled down the group's cargo traffic by 12 percent to 741 million euros in May. The load factor was at 59.4 percent, down 4.8 percent from the same month last year (1 euro = 1.113 U.S. dollars) Endit