Air France-KLM is pursuing the reduction in capacities for the 2009 Winter schedule (October 25, 2009 – 27 March 2010), cutting its offer measured in available seat kilometres by 2% compared with the 2008 Winter schedule (-3.6% compared with Winter 2007), while maintaining the efficiency of its hubs in Paris and Amsterdam In a still difficult economic environment, with sharply lower business traffic, the 2009 Winter schedule steps up the reduction in capacity already undertaken during the last Winter season.
The reduction in capacity will be 1.8% on the long-haul network and 2.9% on the medium-haul network (-3.2% on the French domestic network).
The new features of this programme are:
– the new class, “Premium Voyageur” which will be installed on all Air France’s long-haul aircraft by the end of 2010, except for aircraft servicing the Caribbean and Indian Ocean network. The first destinations on which the new class will be available are New York (October 25), Tokyo (November 16), Beirut, Singapore (December 28), Pekin and Hong Kong (January 18);
– the arrival of the first three Airbus A380s, which will enable a reduction in the number of frequencies to New York, Dubai and Johannesburg, while maintaining the same number of seats.
– the optimization of our transatlantic services, in the context of the joint venture between Air France-KLM and Delta.
