British Airways owner tops Air France with 100m customers
IAG’s passenger count jumped 14% to 100.7m last year, propelling it past Air France-KLM Group by that measure for the first time. Customer numbers were boosted by a full year of figures from Aer Lingus, which IAG purchased in 2015, together with gains at Iberia and the Vueling discount unit. Air France-KLM’s tally rose 4% to 93.4m, putting the group more than 7m passengers behind IAG after it had ended 2015 more than 1.5m ahead. Even on a pro-forma basis IAG added 6.3% more patrons. Air France itself actually lost customers in 2016, with the total down by 691,000, or 1.4%. Group figures were rescued by the addition of 1.8m travellers at KLM and 2.5m at low-cost arm Transavia. IAG didn’t give a breakdown of passenger figures at its individual airlines. <br/>
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British Airways owner tops Air France with 100m customers
IAG’s passenger count jumped 14% to 100.7m last year, propelling it past Air France-KLM Group by that measure for the first time. Customer numbers were boosted by a full year of figures from Aer Lingus, which IAG purchased in 2015, together with gains at Iberia and the Vueling discount unit. Air France-KLM’s tally rose 4% to 93.4m, putting the group more than 7m passengers behind IAG after it had ended 2015 more than 1.5m ahead. Even on a pro-forma basis IAG added 6.3% more patrons. Air France itself actually lost customers in 2016, with the total down by 691,000, or 1.4%. Group figures were rescued by the addition of 1.8m travellers at KLM and 2.5m at low-cost arm Transavia. IAG didn’t give a breakdown of passenger figures at its individual airlines. <br/>
