The airline Air France-KLM issued Monday traffic figures for January 2010 on its planes. There was a 1.6% decline in passenger traffic over this period. Activity has decreased mainly because of bad weather in Europe and the two-day strike of French air traffic control.

This is the thirteenth consecutive monthly decline in passenger numbers recorded by the Franco-Dutch group, but it is nevertheless lower than in December, which was -4.6%. In parallel, the capacity of the group were down 3.4%, thereby enhancing the load factor, which increases by 1.4 percentage points to 78%.

On the cargo business, Air France-KLM has had on January traffic increased by 2%, thanks to the Asian network, which showed "a sharp recovery in terms of both volume of traffic," the statement said .The load factor reached 64.3% and, up 8.5%, due to the capacity reduction of 11.4% on the cargo segment.

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