Paris — Air France-KLM has signalled that a turnaround that began early in 2017 is continuing as summer bookings rise and tourists from Asia and the US return to France after staying away in 2016. "The second quarter is good and bookings for this summer are also quite positive compared to last year," CEO Jean-Marc Janaillac said, calling the increase in bookings "healthy". Air France-KLM is only just recovering from the collapse in travel that followed terrorist attacks in Paris and Nice over the past two years. "We suffered from terrorist attacks, especially in 2016, but we have recovered this year. Visitors from the US and China and Japan are coming back," Janaillac said. "This year we came back to the situation of two years ago and a bit more. We are quite hopeful that during the next year we are going to keep on increasing our visitors from overseas." Air France-KLM will report June traffic bookings on Monday and will publish results for the second quarter on July 28. Janaillac,...
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