Air France KLM posts higher October traffic figures

Air France KLM reported higher passenger traffic figures for October, as its new CE Ben Smith embarks on plans to improve performance after costly strikes earlier this year. Air France KLM said it carried about 9.2m passengers in October, up 3.3% from last year. The group’s load factor - a measure of how packed an airline’s planes are - increased by 0.5 percentage points to 87.5% from last year, the company said. Smith joined Air France KLM in September from Air Canada, and within weeks struck a pay deal with staff unions to end a dispute that had led to protracted and costly strikes which grounded hundreds of flights earlier this year. <br/>