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23
Financial benefits
• The power of the Air France-KLM double hub attracts
high-contribution passengers seeking to optimize their
journey times.
• Routes where the traffic is highest, fed by flights
coming from smaller outstations, can be operated in
larger-capacity aircraft which are also cheaper.
What are the benefits of the hub?
Environmental benefits
In combining small flows of medium-haul traffic on a
long-haul flight, the hub works very much like car
pooling: a passenger from Marseilles and another from
Stockholm thus travel together between Paris and New
York. Fewer flights are needed to carry the same
number of passengers to their destinations, reducing
CO2emissions.
Customer benefits
• The hub gives access to all world regions, whatever
the point of origin.
• Each flight combines connecting and point-to-point
traffic, increasing the volume of traffic and the
frequencies for each destination.
• The hub favors the opening of new direct long-haul
routes fed, in part, by the pooling of small traffic flows.
Air France has thus been able to introduce a direct flight
to Santiago de Chile, whereas this destination had
previously involved a stopover in Buenos Aires, enabling
the Air France-KLM passenger to gain three hours on
the total journey time.
• The hub increases frequencies and the choice of flight
times.
Air France-KLM, the most connecting
opportunities in Europe
Air France-KLM 30,566
Lufthansa-Swiss 22,664
British Airways 7,156
Number of medium-haul/long-haul connecting opportunities
in under two hours
(Source: OAG, summer 2008)