Air France KLM traffic up

On Wednesday, the Air France-KLM group announced higher results for February 2012, with both traffic and load factors up on the same period in 2011, despite the strikes which dominated the group's news.

February saw the Air France-KLM group record higher results than in 2011. Group traffic rose significantly (+6.2%), as did the load factor (+2.8 points) and the number of passengers carried (+5% to 5.34 million). However, a number of strikes disrupted the group's operations - as did a number of others.Iberia or Lufthansa - but European traffic followed the upward trend (+4.9%). The Africa-Middle East (+6.9%) and above all the Americas (+13.1%) networks appear to be the main drivers of this growth, while performance in Asia is stagnating (+1.6%).