Air France-KLM passenger numbers plummet 56%
The airline may need €6bn in government loans to help it survive the coronavirus crisis
09 April 2020 - 10:58
Paris — Air France-KLM, one of many leading airlines around the world that has been hit hard by the impact of the coronavirus, reported a sharp drop on Thursday in passenger numbers for March, compared with a year earlier.
Air France-KLM carried about 3.6-million passengers in March, down 56.6% from a year earlier. Its load factor — which measures the extent to which an airline’s planes are full — also fell by 20.5 points from a year ago...
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