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32
Passenger activity
During the financial year 74.8 million passengers chose to
travel on the Group’s network, benefiting from a wide
choice of destinations, exclusive facilities and a range of
services recognized for their quality.
A powerful offer based on a network coordinated
around two major European hubs
Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam-Schiphol, the
two powerful, coordinated hubs, offer the Group’s
customers a wide choice of destinations and flight times
as well as a large number of frequencies per destination.
Passengers can choose between eleven daily flights to
New York, five to Tokyo and four to Johannesburg and
Montreal.
This organization is particularly attractive to both high
contribution passengers looking for a direct flight and
connecting passengers who also have the opportunity to
optimize their trip in using the two hubs.
This unique offer has attracted new customers who have
generated 220 million of additional revenues since 2004.
The Air France-KLM offer is extended still further by
SkyTeam and local partnerships.
New long-haul routes departing from Europe
Following the Open Skies agreement, the Group has
established operations at Heathrow, the largest European
long-haul market to the United States: high contribution
traffic flows between New York and London are three
times greater than the flows between New York and Paris,
the leading Continental European market. As of April
2008, in order to establish a meaningful network out of
Heathrow, Air France and KLM made slots available to
Delta Air Lines and Northwest, enabling nine daily flights
to be operated under code share to seven US cities, of
which the two largest are New York and Los Angeles. The
latter is now served by a direct Air France flight, making
Air France the first European carrier to operate a long-haul
flight between two destinations situated outside its
national territory.
The Group offers its passengers
an extensive network
and innovative services