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KLM’s results for 2016 show that we’re on track

Thu, 16 Feb 2017 07:15:00 +0100

(*) The joint Air France KLM Final Year Results of 2016 can be found in the download box.

KLM in 2016: a turbulent year with good results

Tue, 27 Dec 2016 10:00:00 +0100

An overview of facts & highlights of 2016. It was turbulent year, in which a lot was achieved. Watch the video below and/or download the factsheet PDF above on the left.

KLM traffic figures for October 2016

Wed, 09 Nov 2016 09:30:46 +0100

“The traffic figures for October are good once again. Compared to October last year, KLM welcomed 320,000 more passengers on board. This amounts to a traffic increase of 6.1%. From this we may conclude that KLM’s strategy to invest in new destinations is bearing fruit. The increase in passenger traffic is keeping pace nicely with capacity expansion.

Growth was strong in Europe, with passenger traffic up 8% and capacity up 8.5%. Load factor was particularly high on routes to Spain and Portugal. Performance was also strong in North America and Asia, with load factor to Montreal at 93% and a sharp increase in load factor to Atlanta. Passenger traffic to Beijing was up 5%, with capacity stable. The increase in passenger traffic to African destinations also exceeded capacity growth. There was a 15% increase in traffic on routes to South Africa.

In a declining market, KLM Cargo saw a slight increase in cargo traffic to North and South American destinations.

These great figures for October may be attributed to the efforts of the KLM employees out there offering every passenger a special travel experience.”

Pieter Elbers, KLM President & CEO

(*) The Air France KLM traffic results can be found in the download section of this release.

Air france KLM June 2016 Traffic Results.

Fri, 08 Jul 2016 07:30:00 +0200

Traffic highlights

Passenger network activity (Air France, KLM, HOP!)	Capacity(ASK, %ch.)	Traffic(RPK, %ch.)	Load Factor (%)	Change (pts)
Long-haul	- 1.5%	- 3.6%	85.7%	- 1.8
North America	- 0.7%	- 3.2%	88.1%	- 2.3
Latin America	+ 0.1%	- 1.8%	87.3%	- 1.7
Asia	- 7.7%	- 8.0%	86.8%	- 0.3
Africa / Middle East	+ 0.7%	- 3.0%	79.2%	- 3.0
Caribbean / Indian Ocean	+ 6.7%	+ 3.8%	83.5%	- 2.3
Short and Medium-haul	- 1.6%	- 1.4%	83.1%	+ 0.2
Total	- 1.6%	- 3.1%	85.2%	- 1.4

Excluding the four days of Air France pilot strike, the capacity remained stable (-0.2%) compared to June 2015
7.0 million passengers, -1.9%
Slight decrease in load factor of the long-haul network, while stable in the short and medium-haul network
Excluding one-offs, the unit revenue per available seat kilometer (RASK) ex-currency down mid-single digit compared to June 2015, reflecting the weak supply-demand balance in the different regions of the network and increasingly soft local flows to France
The impact of the pilot strike on the June operating result is estimated around € 40million

Transavia activity	Capacity(ASK, %ch.)	Traffic(RPK, %ch.)	Load Factor (%)	Change (pts)
Total	+ 10.5%	+ 8.3%	88.9%	- 1.8

1.3 million passengers, +19.4%
Strong increase in capacity driven by Transavia France and the expansion of the Munich base

Total group passenger activity (Air France, KLM, HOP!, Transavia)	Capacity(ASK, %ch.)	Traffic(RPK, %ch.)	Load Factor (%)	Change (pts)
Total	- 0.5%	- 2.1%	85.5%	- 1.4

8.3 million passengers, +1.0%

Cargo activity

Capacity(ATK, %ch.)

Traffic(RTK, %ch.)

Load Factor

(%)

Change (pts)

Total

- 4.9%

- 9.4%

57.2%

- 2.8

Unit revenue per available ton kilometer (RATK) ex-currency clearly down compared to June 2015

Agenda

27^th July: 1^st Half 2016 results
8^th August: July 2016 traffic
8^th September: August 2016 traffic

STATISTICS

Passenger network activity*

		June		Year to date
Total Passenger network*	2016	2015	Variation	2016	2015	Variation
Passengers carried (‘000s)	6,993	7,127	(1.9%)	38,624	37,856	2.0%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	19,978	20,628	(3.1%)	113,910	112,372	1.4%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	23,462	23,834	(1.6%)	134,642	134,056	0.4%
Load factor (%)	85.2%	86.5%	(1.4)	84.6%	83.8%	0.8

Long-haul
Passengers carried (‘000s)	2,128	2,215	(3.9%)	12,324	12,168	1.3%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	15,984	16,578	(3.6%)	92,373	91,385	1.1%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	18,654	18,945	(1.5%)	107,756	107,145	0.6%
Load factor (%)	85.7%	87.5%	(1.8)	85.7%	85.3%	0.4

North America
Passengers carried (‘000s)	711	740	(3.9%)	3,525	3,464	1.8%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	5,079	5,249	(3.2%)	25,176	24,602	2.3%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	5,764	5,805	(0.7%)	28,997	28,103	3.2%
Load factor (%)	88.1%	90.4%	(2.3)	86.8%	87.5%	(0.7)

Latin America
Passengers carried (‘000s)	258	262	(1.8%)	1,513	1,458	3.8%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	2,484	2,529	(1.8%)	14,513	14,047	3.3%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	2,845	2,841	0.1%	16,670	16,327	2.1%
Load factor (%)	87.3%	89.0%	(1.7)	87.1%	86.0%	1.0

Asia / Pacific
Passengers carried (‘000s)	486	533	(8.9%)	2,873	3,000	(4.3%)
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	4,268	4,641	(8.0%)	25,003	26,114	(4.3%)
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	4,918	5,329	(7.7%)	29,051	30,636	(5.2%)
Load factor (%)	86.8%	87.1%	(0.3)	86.1%	85.2%	0.8

Africa / Middle East
Passengers carried (‘000s)	427	441	(3.1%)	2,619	2,523	3.8%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	2,338	2,411	(3.0%)	14,560	14,046	3.7%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	2,954	2,933	0.7%	18,083	17,856	1.3%
Load factor (%)	79.2%	82.2%	(3.0)	80.5%	78.7%	1.9

Caribbean / Indian,Ocean
Passengers carried (‘000s)	247	239	3.3%	1,794	1,723	4.1%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	1,815	1,749	3.8%	13,121	12,576	4.3%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	2,173	2,037	6.7%	14,955	14,224	5.1%
Load factor (%)	83.5%	85.9%	(2.3)	87.7%	88.4%	(0.7)

Short and Medium-haul
Passengers carried (‘000s)	4,865	4,912	(1.0%)	26,300	25,688	2.4%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	3,995	4,050	(1.4%)	21,537	20,987	2.6%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	4,808	4,889	(1.6%)	26,887	26,910	(0.1%)
Load factor (%)	83.1%	82.8%	0.2	80.1%	78.0%	2.1

* Air France, KLM, and HOP!

Transavia activity

		June		Year to date
Transavia	2016	2015	Variation	2016	2015	Variation
Passengers carried (‘000s)	1,329	1,113	19.4%	5,657	4,748	19.1%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	2,220	2,050	8.3%	9,650	8,835	9.2%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	2,496	2,259	10.5%	10,943	9,876	10.8%
Load factor (%)	88.9%	90.8%	(1.8)	88.2%	89.5%	(1.3)

Total group passenger activity**

		June		Year to date
Total group**	2016	2015	Variation	2016	2015	Variation
Passengers carried (‘000s)	8,322	8,240	1.0%	44,281	42,605	3.9%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	22,198	22,678	(2.1%)	123,560	121,207	1.9%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	25,959	26,093	(0.5%)	145,585	143,932	1.1%
Load factor (%)	85.5%	86.9%	(1.4)	84.9%	84.2%	0.7

** Air France, KLM, HOP! and Transavia

Cargo activity

		June		Year to date
Total Group	2016	2015	Variation	2016	2015	Variation
Revenue tonne-km (m RTK)	680	750	(9.4%)	4,121	4,456	(7.5%)
Available tonne-km (m ATK)	1,189	1,250	(4.9%)	6,999	7,421	(5.7%)
Load factor (%)	57.2%	60.0%	(2.8)	58.9%	60.0%	(1.2)

Air France and HOP! activity

		June		Year to date
Total Passenger network activity	2016	2015	Variation	2016	2015	Variation
Passengers carried (‘000s)	4,312	4,567	(5.6%)	24,183	24,372	(0.8%)
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	11,676	12,431	(6.1%)	67,553	67,996	(0.7%)
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	14,049	14,519	(3.2%)	80,881	81,707	(1.0%)
Load factor (%)	83.1%	85.6%	(2.5)	83.5%	83.2%	0.3

Long-haul
Passengers carried (‘000s)	1,265	1,347	(6.1%)	7,401	7,406	(0.1%)
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	9,249	9,839	(6.0%)	54,185	54,453	(0.5%)
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	11,062	11,353	(2.6%)	63,794	64,220	(0.7%)
Load factor (%)	83.6%	86.7%	(3.1)	84.9%	84.8%	0.1

Short and Medium-haul
Passengers carried (‘000s)	3,047	3,220	(5.4%)	16,782	16,966	(1.1%)
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	2,427	2,592	(6.3%)	13,367	13,543	(1.3%)
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	2,987	3,165	(5.6%)	17,088	17,487	(2.3%)
Load factor (%)	81.3%	81.9%	(0.6)	78.2%	77.4%	0.8

		June		Year to date
Cargo activity	2016	2015	Variation	2016	2015	Variation
Revenue tonne-km (m RTK)	283	303	(6.4%)	1,722	1,783	(3.5%)
Available tonne-km (m ATK)	576	580	(0.5%)	3,344	3,384	(1.2%)
Load factor (%)	49.1%	52.2%	(3.1)	51.5%	52.7%	(1.2)

KLM activity

		June		Year to date
Total Passenger network activity	2016	2015	Variation	2016	2015	Variation
Passengers carried (‘000s)	2,681	2,560	4.7%	14,441	13,484	7.1%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	8,302	8,197	1.3%	46,357	44,376	4.5%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	9,414	9,315	1.1%	53,761	52,349	2.7%
Load factor (%)	88.2%	88.0%	0.2	86.2%	84.8%	1.5

Long-haul
Passengers carried (‘000s)	863	868	(0.5%)	4,923	4,762	3.4%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	6,735	6,739	(0.1%)	38,187	36,932	3.4%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	7,592	7,592	0.0%	43,962	42,926	2.4%
Load factor (%)	88.7%	88.8%	(0.1)	86.9%	86.0%	0.8

Short and Medium-haul
Passengers carried (‘000s)	1,818	1,692	7.4%	9,518	8,722	9.1%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	1,567	1,458	7.5%	8,170	7,444	9.8%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	1,821	1,723	5.7%	9,799	9,423	4.0%
Load factor (%)	86.1%	84.6%	1.4	83.4%	79.0%	4.4

		June		Year to date
Cargo activity	2016	2015	Variation	2016	2015	Variation
Revenue tonne-km (m RTK)	396	448	(11.5%)	2,399	2,673	(10.2%)
Available tonne-km (m ATK)	612	671	(8.8%)	3,655	4,037	(9.5%)
Load factor (%)	64.7%	66.7%	(2.0)	65.6%	66.2%	(0.6)

Air France KLM May 2016 Traffic Results.

Wed, 08 Jun 2016 07:30:00 +0200

Traffic highlights

Passenger network activity (Air France, KLM, HOP!)	Capacity(ASK, %ch.)	Traffic(RPK, %ch.)	Load Factor (%)	Change (pts)
Long-haul	+ 0.5%	- 0.5%	84.1%	- 0.9
North America	+ 2.5%	+ 0.9%	86.8%	- 1.4
Latin America	- 0.9%	- 1.6%	83.3%	- 0.6
Asia	- 4.8%	- 5.3%	83.8%	- 0.5
Africa / Middle East	+ 4.3%	+ 3.2%	77.5%	- 0.8
Caribbean / Indian Ocean	+ 5.6%	+ 4.2%	88.3%	- 1.2
Short and Medium-haul	+ 2.2%	+ 2.1%	81.3%	- 0.0
Total	+ 0.9%	+ 0.0%	83.5%	- 0.7

6.9 million passengers, +1.2%
Slight decrease in load factor of the long-haul network, while stable in the short and medium-haul network
Unit revenue per available seat kilometer (RASK) ex-currency down mid-single digit compared to May 2015, reflecting the increasingly weak supply-demand balance in the different regions of the network.

Transavia activity	Capacity(ASK, %ch.)	Traffic(RPK, %ch.)	Load Factor (%)	Change (pts)
Total	+ 10.4%	+ 8.1%	89.3%	- 1.9

1.4 million passengers, +19.1%
Strong increase in capacity driven by Transavia France and the planned expansion of the Munich base

Total group passenger activity (Air France, KLM, HOP!, Transavia)	Capacity(ASK, %ch.)	Traffic(RPK, %ch.)	Load Factor (%)	Change (pts)
Total	+ 1.8%	+ 0.8%	84.1%	- 0.8

8.3 million passengers, +3.8%

Cargo activity

Capacity(ATK, %ch.)

Traffic(RTK, %ch.)

Load Factor

(%)

Change (pts)

Total

- 2.8%

- 5.8%

57.6%

- 1.8

Unit revenue per available ton kilometer (RATK) ex-currency clearly down compared to May 2015

Agenda

8^th July: June 2016 traffic
27^th July: 1^st Half 2016 results
8^th August: July 2016 traffic

STATISTICS

Passenger network activity*

		May		Year to date
Total Passenger network*	2016	2015	Variation	2016	2015	Variation
Passengers carried (‘000s)	6,915	6,833	1.2%	31,631	30,729	2.9%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	19,672	19,670	0.0%	93,931	91,744	2.4%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	23,558	23,354	0.9%	111,180	110,222	0.9%
Load factor (%)	83.5%	84.2%	(0.7)	84.5%	83.2%	1.2

Long-haul
Passengers carried (‘000s)	2,080	2,090	(0.5%)	10,196	9,953	2.4%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	15,612	15,696	(0.5%)	76,389	74,807	2.1%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	18,562	18,463	0.5%	89,102	88,201	1.0%
Load factor (%)	84.1%	85.0%	(0.9)	85.7%	84.8%	0.9

North America
Passengers carried (‘000s)	660	659	0.1%	2,814	2,724	3.3%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	4,727	4,687	0.9%	20,097	19,354	3.8%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	5,445	5,312	2.5%	23,233	22,298	4.2%
Load factor (%)	86.8%	88.2%	(1.4)	86.5%	86.8%	(0.3)

Latin America
Passengers carried (‘000s)	245	250	(2.1%)	1,256	1,196	5.0%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	2,370	2,409	(1.6%)	12,029	11,518	4.4%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	2,844	2,869	(0.9%)	13,825	13,485	2.5%
Load factor (%)	83.3%	84.0%	(0.6)	87.0%	85.4%	1.6

Asia / Pacific
Passengers carried (‘000s)	481	510	(5.8%)	2,387	2,467	(3.3%)
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	4,226	4,462	(5.3%)	20,735	21,473	(3.4%)
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	5,042	5,294	(4.8%)	24,133	25,307	(4.6%)
Load factor (%)	83.8%	84.3%	(0.5)	85.9%	84.9%	1.1

Africa / Middle East
Passengers carried (‘000s)	432	416	3.7%	2,192	2,081	5.3%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	2,358	2,285	3.2%	12,222	11,635	5.0%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	3,043	2,917	4.3%	15,129	14,923	1.4%
Load factor (%)	77.5%	78.3%	(0.8)	80.8%	78.0%	2.8

Caribbean / Indian,Ocean
Passengers carried (‘000s)	263	254	3.4%	1,548	1,484	4.3%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	1,931	1,853	4.2%	11,307	10,827	4.4%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	2,187	2,071	5.6%	12,783	12,187	4.9%
Load factor (%)	88.3%	89.5%	(1.2)	88.5%	88.8%	(0.4)

Short and Medium-haul
Passengers carried (‘000s)	4,835	4,744	1.9%	21,435	20,776	3.2%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	4,060	3,975	2.1%	17,542	16,937	3.6%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	4,997	4,891	2.2%	22,078	22,021	0.3%
Load factor (%)	81.3%	81.3%	(0.0)	79.5%	76.9%	2.5

* Air France, KLM, and HOP!

Transavia activity

		May		Year to date
Transavia	2016	2015	Variation	2016	2015	Variation
Passengers carried (‘000s)	1,392	1,169	19.1%	4,328	3,635	19.1%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	2,383	2,205	8.1%	7,430	6,785	9.5%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	2,669	2,417	10.4%	8,446	7,617	10.9%
Load factor (%)	89.3%	91.2%	(1.9)	88.0%	89.1%	(1.1)

Total group passenger activity**

		May		Year to date
Total group**	2016	2015	Variation	2016	2015	Variation
Passengers carried (‘000s)	8,307	8,002	3.8%	35,959	34,364	4.6%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	22,055	21,875	0.8%	101,361	98,529	2.9%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	26,227	25,771	1.8%	119,627	117,839	1.5%
Load factor (%)	84.1%	84.9%	(0.8)	84.7%	83.6%	1.1

** Air France, KLM, HOP! and Transavia

Cargo activity

		May		Year to date
Total Group	2016	2015	Variation	2016	2015	Variation
Revenue tonne-km (m RTK)	698	741	(5.8%)	3,441	3,705	(7.1%)
Available tonne-km (m ATK)	1,212	1,248	(2.8%)	5,810	6,170	(5.8%)
Load factor (%)	57.6%	59.4%	(1.8)	59.2%	60.1%	(0.8)

Air France and HOP! activity

		May		Year to date
Total Passenger network activity	2016	2015	Variation	2016	2015	Variation
Passengers carried (‘000s)	4,288	4,301	(0.3%)	19,871	19,805	0.3%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	11,549	11,671	(1.0%)	55,876	55,565	0.6%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	13,975	13,976	(0.0%)	66,833	67,189	(0.5%)
Load factor (%)	82.6%	83.5%	(0.9)	83.6%	82.7%	0.9

Long-haul
Passengers carried (‘000s)	1,233	1,248	(1.2%)	6,137	6,059	1.3%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	9,037	9,156	(1.3%)	44,937	44,614	0.7%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	10,829	10,852	(0.2%)	52,732	52,867	(0.3%)
Load factor (%)	83.5%	84.4%	(0.9)	85.2%	84.4%	0.8

Short and Medium-haul
Passengers carried (‘000s)	3,056	3,052	0.1%	13,735	13,746	(0.1%)
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	2,512	2,515	(0.1%)	10,940	10,952	(0.1%)
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	3,146	3,124	0.7%	14,101	14,322	(1.5%)
Load factor (%)	79.8%	80.5%	(0.7)	77.6%	76.5%	1.1

		May		Year to date
Cargo activity	2016	2015	Variation	2016	2015	Variation
Revenue tonne-km (m RTK)	292	291	0.4%	1,438	1,480	(2.8%)
Available tonne-km (m ATK)	576	563	2.3%	2,767	2,804	(1.3%)
Load factor (%)	50.7%	51.7%	(1.0)	52.0%	52.8%	(0.8)

KLM activity

		May		Year to date
Total Passenger network activity	2016	2015	Variation	2016	2015	Variation
Passengers carried (‘000s)	2,626	2,533	3.7%	11,760	10,924	7.6%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	8,123	7,999	1.6%	38,055	36,179	5.2%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	9,584	9,379	2.2%	44,348	43,033	3.1%
Load factor (%)	84.8%	85.3%	(0.5)	85.8%	84.1%	1.7

Long-haul
Passengers carried (‘000s)	847	841	0.7%	4,059	3,894	4.2%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	6,575	6,539	0.5%	31,452	30,193	4.2%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	7,733	7,612	1.6%	36,370	35,334	2.9%
Load factor (%)	85.0%	85.9%	(0.9)	86.5%	85.5%	1.0

Short and Medium-haul
Passengers carried (‘000s)	1,779	1,691	5.2%	7,701	7,030	9.5%
Revenue pax-kilometers (m RPK)	1,548	1,460	6.1%	6,603	5,985	10.3%
Available seat-kilometers (m ASK)	1,851	1,767	4.7%	7,977	7,699	3.6%
Load factor (%)	83.7%	82.6%	1.1	82.8%	77.7%	5.0

		May		Year to date
Cargo activity	2016	2015	Variation	2016	2015	Variation
Revenue tonne-km (m RTK)	406	450	(9.8%)	2,003	2,225	(10.0%)
Available tonne-km (m ATK)	637	685	(7.1%)	3,043	3,366	(9.6%)
Load factor (%)	63.8%	65.7%	(1.9)	65.8%	66.1%	(0.3)

KLM wins “Best Airline” award for second time at Reisgala 2016

Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:20:35 +0100

The awards are based on market research carried out among 10,000 Dutch consumers. There are 17 different award categories, including Best Airline. The “Nederlandse Vakantie Awards” are initiated by Travmedia, ANVR, SGR and Thuiswinkel.org.