Franco-Dutch airline Air France-KLM (AFRAF.PK, AFLYY.PK) Friday reported growth in traffic and capacity for the month of May, along with increases in load factor and the number of passengers.
Traffic, measured in revenue pax-kilometers, or RPKs, rose 4.7 percent to 18.98 billion while available seat-kilometers or ASK, a measure for capacity, improved 3.5 percent to 23.23 billion.
Load factor for the month grew 0.9 percentage points to 81.7 percent from 80.8 percent. Passengers carried rose 3.9 percent to 6.80 million from 6.55 million in the prior year.
Unit revenue per available seat kilometer or RASK ex-currency fell from last year, a a calendar effect penalized business traffic.
Segment-wise, traffic rose 4.5 percent on the Americas network and capacity grew 3.4 percent, leading to a 0.9 point rise in load factor to 87.6 percent.
The Asia network witnessed a 5.3 percent increase in traffic and a 6 percent growth in capacity, while load factor fell 0.6 points to 81.4 percent.
Traffic rose 3.5 percent in the European network while capacity slid 1.7 percent. Load factor improved 3.9 points to 78.1 percent.
The cargo business posted a 6.4 percent decline in traffic and capacity was down 3.5 percent with load factor falling 1.9 points to 62.3 percent. Unit revenue per available tonne-kilometer or RATK ex-currency fell from last year.
Among others in the industry, Germany's Air Berlin Plc. (AIBEF.PK) Thursday said that traffic rose 2.3 percent in May while there was a drop in number of passengers and capacity.
UK-based low-cost airline easyJet Plc (ESYJY.PK,EZJ.L) posted growth in passengers and load factor for the same month.
Air-France KLM stock is up 0.2 percent in early morning trade in Paris at 7.46 euros.
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