Reservations Chinese groups to Europe down 50% – warns Air France – PressTUR

This breakdown, according to PressTUR sources, will greatly
 probably be reflected in Portugal, many of the groups of tourists
 Asian receiving come via Paris.

The impact of terrorism on long journeys search
 for Europe was one of the factors to which the Air France KLM group assigned higher
 relevance to explain why today dropped its traffic revenues and advance
 the outlook for the coming months.

“Our reserve ratios are lower than the
 last year, “said the CFO of the group, Pierre-François Rocciali, now
 press conference, who also commented that in July the group also
 He managed to overcome the occupation of flights, but at the expense of price degradation.

Now, recalled if “is very easy to fill the planes” downloading
 prices, the aim, however, must be getting it “preserving the revenue.”

According to the French press was in this context that
 Pierre-François Rocciali advanced that the group began to feel an ‘escape’ from
 Japanese customers following the attack against Charlie Hebdo, which joined
 More recently, following the attacks in the Brussels Airport and
 Nice, among others, a ‘leak’ too Chinese.

But this is not the only one of the group’s concerns, according
 said today, as also perspective breakdown of arrivals to Paris
 other sources of long-haul, including quotes Brazil, anticipating that the
 Summer will be a decrease of 10%.

Group traffic data relating to Air France KLM
 June already indicated a drop of passengers on its long-haul flights in
 3.9% to 2.128 million, with the strongest breaks to occur in Asia sector
 and the Pacific, with a drop by 8.9% to 486,000.

The second strongest drop was in flights to / from America
 North, with a decrease by 3.9% to 711,000.

Still, throughout the first half of the Air Group
 France KLM also had 1.8% of passengers on flights to / from North America,
 totaling 3.525 million, but the links with Asia and the Pacific recorded a
 breaking 4.3%, to 2,873,000, in which, incidentally, was the only sector of flights
 long course that finished the semester in fall.

And, according to data released today by the group,
 long-haul flights earned him an income of six billion euros in
 first half, with Asia and the Pacific to represent 24%, just below
 31% of North American sector.

Africa and Middle East is the third sector more
 contributes to revenue long haul, with 20% of the total, following the
 Latin America with 13% and the Caribbean and Indian Ocean with 12%

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