Flights between India, Europe to increase; route profitability remains challenge: Air France-KLM

Air France-KLM will increase its passenger-carrying capacity between India and Europe by more than 25 per cent from this winter even as profitability remains one of the biggest challenges for its flights on this route, a senior executive of the airline said.

“One of the major challenges in India is the route profitability. From a historical point of view, it has always been a bit of challenge. Our flights are doing well. But the economical performance is always a bit of a concern,” Welmer Blom, the senior vice-president (Middle East, Gulf and India), Air France-KLM, told PTI.

He said India is a “strategic” market for airlines and the conglomerate would be expanding flight connectivity between Europe an India.