ACW - Air Cargo Week
06/18/2012
Air France-KLM combats tough conditions
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Air France-KLM flew 901 million cargo tonne-km in May, down by 8.8 percent on the same month of last year. With capacity down by 3.9 percent over May 2011, the cargo load factor fell by 3.4 percentage points to 64.3 percent.
Business was difficult across just about all the regions in which the joint cargo carrier is active, with freight traffic down in Europe (by 21.2 percent), the Americas (by 13.4 percent), the Asia Pacific region (by 5.1 percent) and the Africa/Middle East sector (by 9/9 percent).
Only on Caribbean and Indian Ocean routes was there a year-on-year increase in AF-KLM's cargo traffic - of 8.1 percent.
The picture for the first five months of this year is a little better. Freight traffic was down across all regions by 7.3 percent and, with capacity having only been reduced by 2.8 percent, the cargo load factor fell by 3.1 percentage points to 64.6 percent. Traffic on the Americas sector suffered the most, falling by 9.3 percent.
Some expansion continues, however, On 15 May, KLM launched a three times a week services to Lusaka in Zambia. The route is flown by A330 equipment, the same aircraft type used by Air France on a new link to Abuja that it inaugurated on 4 June.
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