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Good morning and welcome to the Air France KLM third quarter 2025 results presentation. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Benjamin Smith, CEO, and Stephen Zat, CFO. Please go ahead, sirs.

Okay, thank you. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today for the presentation of Air France KLM's third quarter results presentation. As usual, I'll start by sharing the key highlights of the quarter, and then I'll hand it over to our CFO, Stephen Zott, who will walk you through the financial results in more detail. I'll return at the end with a few concluding remarks before we open the floor for any questions you might have. This quarter, once again, demonstrates the resilience of our business model in a challenging environment. In the third quarter, Afron's KLM delivered a stable operating margin of 13.1%. with revenues increasing by 3% year-over-year to €9.2 billion, supported by a 5% increase in passenger traffic, which reached 29.2 million passengers. Passenger network unit revenue was up 0.5% at constant currency, driven by continued strong demand for premium cabins, which I will elaborate on later. Meanwhile, our maintenance business also made a solid contribution. We managed to limit our unit cost increase to 1.3% despite higher airport and air traffic control charges. As a result, operating income improved by €23 million year-over-year to €1.2 billion. Our balance sheet remains robust with leverage at 1.6 times. Year-to-date recurring adjusted operating free cash flow reached €700 million. confirming our ability to combine financial discipline with continued investment in our future. Finally, fleet renewal continues to advance, with new generation aircraft now representing nearly one-third of the fleet, up eight points compared to a year ago. I'm moving to slide five for those of you that are following the deck here. One of this quarter's key highlights is the continued success of our loyalty program, Flying Blue, which has been named the world's best airline loyalty program by Point.me for the second year in a row. This distinction reflects the trust of over 30 million members and underscores Flying Blue's growing role in strengthening our connection with customers. Flying Blue remains a powerful driver of loyalty and commercial performance, and its global recognition is a testament to the value and quality of the experience that we deliver. Let's turn now to slide five. We're pursuing the implementation of our premiumization roadmap across the group with concrete improvement throughout the customer journey. On board, we're rolling out our latest long-haul business cabins at both Air France KLM and KLM's Premium Comfort Class is now featured on more routes. Starting in September, Air France has been introducing high-speed Starlink Wi-Fi on board, available free of charge in every cabin, a first for any major European airline. Almost 30 aircraft have already been equipped, and we expect 30% of the Air France fleet to feature this service by the end of 2025. In addition, we are continuing to enhance the customer experience across multiple touchpoints, This includes upgraded premium lounges with recent improvements in Chicago and Boston and an enriched dining offer featuring new signature dishes from Michelin-starred chefs on U.S. departures and a simplified customer journey from check-in to boarding. A new exclusive ground experience has also been introduced at Los Angeles for La Première customers, and I'm also particularly proud to highlight that our fully redesigned La Première cabin will be available on the Paris CDG to Miami route starting November 10th after following a very, very successful launch on our flights to New York JFK, Singapore, and Los Angeles. Altogether, these initiatives elevate the quality of our product, reinforce our positioning in the premium travel segment, and support our path to higher value revenues. Moving to slide six, as you can see from this slide, the mix of our long-haul cabins is gradually shifting toward higher-value premium segments. At Air France, the share of La Première and business seeds is set to increase from 12% in 2022 to 13% by 2028, while premium economy, now rebranded as premium, will rise from 8% to 10%. At KLM, the trend is even more pronounced. Premium comfort introduced in 2022 is expected to expand to 10% of seats by 2028, while the business cabin segment will grow from 10% to 12%. In other words, by 2028, almost one in four seats across our long-haul fleet will be in premium cabins. This structural shift aligns with our longer-term strategy to strengthen our brand positioning, reflecting evolving customer demand, improving revenue quality, and enhancing the value proposition for long-haul travelers. Turning to our network, we are continuing to expand connectivity across all key markets. This winter, the group will operate a broad network across all regions with balanced capacity growth. In Asia and the Middle East, Air France will serve Phuket, Thailand, while KLM will add Hyderabad, India to its network. In the Caribbean, Air France will launch services to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, and KLM will introduce flights to Barbados. Across Europe, KLM is opening Kittila in northern Finland, while Transavia is launching new services from Deauville, Normandy, and Medina, Saudi Arabia, and Marsa Alam, Egypt, will also be added. And Transavia will increase flights to Morocco, Egypt, and Finland's Lapland region as well. Looking ahead, Air France will launch flights to Las Vegas in summer 2026, further strengthening our North American offerings. Altogether, these additions illustrate how Air France KLM continues to grow strategically, improving connectivity, reinforcing its position in key markets, and maintaining a well-balanced portfolio of routes. With that, I'll now hand it over to Steven, who will walk you through the detailed financial results.

Yes. Good morning, everybody, and thanks for taking the time to listen to us. I think we can say it was a tough quarter in the third quarter, especially from a revenue perspective. The impact of the situation in the US regarding visa and immigration rules starts to hurt our lower yield segment in the long haul. And I think also the warm summer didn't help our European network and Transavia. And then on top we had ATC strikes in July, we had ground strikes at KLM, and then all the impact from the taxes and charges which we get In France, from the DSBA, and it's tripled the charges of the lending fees and the increase of our security charges. I think we had last year, we had, let's say, the Olympics. So I think if you look at the tailwinds, which we should have from the Olympics, a big part has been absorbed by these headwinds in this quarter. If we look at the margin, you see a stable margin of around 13%, which is the same as we had last year. On the unit revenue, if you exclude currency, we are at minus 0.5%. And the unit cost, we are quite well under control. I guided you already that we will be at the lower end of the 1% to 3%. So we are very close now to the 1%. and if you include also the fuel benefit you will see that actually our unit cost is coming down with 0.2 percent so let's say unit revenues and unit costs are stabilizing each other in this quarter if you look at the left and you look at the net result you see that it looks down year over year but it comes that we had an unrealized foreign exchange result last year of more than 100 million so if you take that out on the net result we actually improved and we are now at an equity level above 2 billion. If you go business by business, and I will come back on the 0.5 unit revenue on passenger business on the next slide, you have to see at the cargo that we see a minus 5% in unit revenues. This is related to the fact that we had more freighters in maintenance, so we planned more maintenance for our freighters at Schiphol, and it extended also more than what we expected. So this is quite a big impact on our unit revenue. If you look at the cargo contribution to our P&L, it's more or less flat, so it's also, let's say, benefiting from a unit cost perspective over there, absorbing actually the unit revenue decline in the cargo. On Transavia, we grew capacity 13.8%, 15% in France and 12.5% in the Netherlands. In France, by taking over the slots of Air France in Orly and in the Netherlands by upgoaching our fleet. That had an impact on our unit revenue, which is down minus 2.8%. And I think also that the warm weather didn't help our low-cost business due to the fact that the appetite to travel, probably when it's hot, It's less when it is raining dogs and cats outside. So we have a stable result of Transavia of around 217 million. The maintenance business performed quite well, an increase of 13% of our revenues despite the lower USD. Especially on engines and components, we start growing the business. We are now at an order book level. of 10.4 billion. We increased our order book by 1.7 billion compared to the beginning of the last year. So we are strengthening this business segment and you see also that the results are improving quarter over quarter now with an operating margin of 6.3%. So a very good performance on the maintenance business where we also start to recover at the components business to drive up our margin. If we then go to page 11, let's start with Air France. Of course, there was the Olympics last year, but we also had the TSBA impact and the ATC strikes. And all in all, Air France improved the result by 67 million, having now an operating margin of 14%. KLM is especially impacted by the lower yield demand. And this lower yield, especially on the long haul, impacts the unit revenues of KLM. And on top of it, we have the increase of the Schiphol tariffs, which really hurt in KLM. including also the security charges which are going up. So I think these two impacts actually explain all the KLM decline, despite the fact that we continue with our back on track. And you see later that on the productivity side, the unit costs are getting better under control. And also we see that we are getting very close to, let's say, the low limit of our guidance, and especially a big contribution coming from the productivity side. On Flying Blue, a stable result of around 54 million. We had last year, first of all, Flying Blue is impacted by the dollar because we sell miles in the US. And on top of it, we had very cheap seats available for Flying Blue during the Olympics. It has a positive impact, let's say, on the miles cost, which we don't have this quarter, but I think it was a very strong quarter. We grew the business again with 10.5% and the business operating margin of 24% is contributing as we expected to our business model. If you then go to page 12, then you see the big difference, and we took out now also the premium economy. You see that there's a big difference between the premium traffic and the lower-yield economy traffic. So in the first in business, we increased our load factor, we increased our capacity, we increased our yield. On the premium economy, we even increased our capacity with 10%, while at the same time increasing the ticket prices by 5.4%. And then on the economy... There you see it's starting to hurt. It is minus 1.5% in terms of yield and also a lower load factor, although the load factor is still 91%. You see that it is more difficult to fill this seat. If you look, for instance, on our traffic on the North Atlantic to the US, there is minus 10% lower passengers from India, for instance, which is all related to these immigration rules in the US. If you go over the world, you see still that North America on itself is not doing that bad. We have a 2.7% increase in yield, especially driven again by the first and business class and the premium economy and also by the very strong point of sale in the US. Latin America is still strong, 2.8% up in yield. And we see also that in the Caribbean, in the ocean, we could increase our yields year over year. On the long of the outlayer is a bit Africa, where we see that we have a gap on the load factor, which is especially again related to the political situation in Africa, but also the connecting traffic to the US, where there is less traffic from Africa. to the US due to all the immigration rules. And on the right, you see a quite positive trend on Asia at 4.4% in yield. So we are doing quite well in that segment with a limited growth of 1.7%. On the right, you see again Transavia, which are already explained. So this is minus 2.7. And you see this hot summer had an impact on our short and medium haul, which was more or less flattish year over year. If we then go to page 13, you see we guided you that we would be at the lower end of the 1, 2, 3. So we are very close to the 1 now. That will also be the case in the next quarter. We see the unit costs are coming down as productivity is kicking in. But of course, the premiumization, which contributes 0.6% to our unit costs and also this increased ATC charges and the Significant increase of the airport charges, especially in Amsterdam, that drives actually the cost here still. But our own unit cost, which we can directly influence, you see that the labor price is compensated by 1.3% on unit cost on productivity. And then on the operations, it's still going up 0.8%. mainly driven also that we have expensive ground and also on the maintenance side is still quite a difficult environment so but all in all good to see that the unit cost excluding the ATC charges and the premiumization are more or less flattish and we see also a positive trend towards Q4. On page 14 you see the cash flow so a big jump positively in terms of operating free cash flow. We had 1.5 billion, where we were last year at 28 million. Then we still have in there around 400 million of deferred social charges and weight tax. And if you take these exceptionals and you take also the payment of the lease debt, you see that we are now at a recurring adjusted operating free cash flow of more than 700 million, where last year we were at 23 million. And if you look at the right, you see that the net debt is coming up. Of course, these exceptionals of 400 million are added actually at the end of the day to our net debt. And we signed a lease contract on the 787-9, where we extended the leases till the period 2033 and 2035, which had a 300 million impact. on our modified lease debt. But of course, that has not an impact in the coming period on our free cash flow because we continue to operate these profitable planes. If we then go to page 15, you see that the leverage is down now at 1.6. We have 9.5 billion of cash at hand, which is very stable over the year, which is well above the 6 to 8 billion target. We launched very successfully a bond of 500 million, pure vanilla, for five years with a coupon of 3.75%. We had the lowest credit spread ever. in our history of Air France KLM. So we are extremely proud of that. And we continue to simplify our balance sheet. So we redeemed Apollo for 500 million in July. We issued a new hybrid into the market, but we will also pay back the 300 million of our hybrid convertible bond in the market. So in total, We are reducing this hybrid stock with 300 million this year, and within that result generation, we see that we continue to strengthen our balance sheet where we are now above the 2 billion of equity. Let's then go to the outlook, and let's start with the forward bookings. We see that there is a gap of 3% in the long haul, 2% in the minimum, and 4% at trans-agri. We have seen this every quarter. At the end of the day, we were always able to almost close completely this gap. So that is also, let's say, that is a little bit the trend what we see now in our industry. To give you a bit of an indication, if you look at the first 28 days of October, we see a unit revenue increase of 2%, excluding currency impact, with a load factor gap of 1%. And we see again a difference between premium traffic, including premium economy, and the low-yielding classes in the overall long-haul network, giving confidence on our premiumization strategy. Then also I will for one time also guide you on the cargo because usually I don't do that because I think that we don't have a lot of bookings in. But we had a very exceptional situation last year where we had a positive impact of the front loading. especially related to the U.S. elections in the fourth quarter. I already indicated in our loss call that the Q4 cargo unit revenues would be negative. And for the first four weeks of October, we see a decrease in unit revenue of 11%. Although cargo has a very short booking window than the passenger business, and it's difficult to predict the unit revenues, but in our internal forecast, we expect a double-digit decline in unit revenues compared to last year for the fourth quarter. If we then go to page 18 on the hedge, so you see that we have hedged now 70% of 25% and 50% of 26%. We are quite stable in our fuel bill. I think we last time indicated $6.9 billion, and we are now at $6.9 billion. So a very stable fuel price if you look at it over quarter to quarter. It can go up and down during the weeks, but I think we are now reaching a kind of normal plateau for the fuel price. If we then go to page 19 on the capacity, so we still aim at the capacity of 3% to 5% on the long haul, 3% to 5% on the short and medium haul, and Transavia, especially because we had very strong operations in the third quarter, we expect to be above 10% for the full year. But overall, we still guide at the 4% to 5% versus 2024. On page 20, you see the outlook, and it is every quarter the same. It becomes a bit boring, maybe. So group capacity, 4% to 5%. Unit cost, I'm very confident in the low single-digit increase, where we will see in the fourth quarter that we're at the very low side of this guidance. So we are comfortable for the full year on this low single-digit increase in unit costs. Net capex between 3.2 to 3.4 billion, also probably more at the low end of the... of the bandwidth and NetApp's current EBITDA, we will keep that between 1.5 and 2. Then we strengthened further our position in Canada. We have a very strong cooperation with WestJet, which is the second largest airline with the leading market positions in Western Canada. We already have since 2009 a co-chair and a loyalty program with them. And it's interesting to see that they are the number six partner of our Air France KLM-enabled revenues. So next time when we do all a pub quiz, I will invite you to tell me who are the number two, three, four, and five. Number one, you can easily guess, but it's interesting to see that they drive really up our revenue. So we were happy that together with Delta and Corinaire, we could lock them in for our business, and we took a stake of 2.3%, solidifying our integrated way of working with Delta and securing our position in Canada. With that, I hand over to Ben for the final remarks. Thanks, Steven.

And just to summarize and conclude, the comments that were just made. So Q3, again, was a mixed quarter, softer leisure demand and operational headwinds, but we're pleased that there was revenue growth and a stable margin, which clearly shows that we've got a resilient, well-balanced network, strong cash generation, and the outlook is reconfirmed. So altogether, these results demonstrate Nafrans KLM's ability to navigate challenges resiliently while building a stronger position for the future. So thank you for your time and attention. We're now available to answer any of your questions.

Thank you. If you would like to ask a question, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. If you change your mind and want to withdraw your question, please press star 2. And please ensure your lines are unmuted locally as you'll be prompted when to ask your question. So again, to join the queue for questions, please press star one. Our first question today comes from the line of Jared Casson from UBS. Please go ahead.

Good morning, everybody. Thanks. I'll ask three, please. Just quite interested to get any thoughts that you might have at the moment on at least the direction of ex-fuel production costs going into 2026. Secondly, any impact from US shutdown on your North Atlantic? I see they're going to reduce the amount of capacity flying in the US. Is this more domestic in your view or will it have an impact on international? And then lastly, just the current French economic slash political backdrop. If you could just go through some of your thoughts in terms of what these budgetary pressures might mean for your business.

Thanks. Good morning, Gerrit.

I will take the first question and then we'll take the second and the third question. So we are currently busy with our budget for 2026. But we, of course, we, you know, we have back on track. We have the same actually measures also at our funds. So we are driving our productivity further. So let's see where that will end when I come back with the guidance for 2026. But we are, of course, aiming, if you look at the full year, to be lower than where we were this year. You see every quarter the unit cost development is coming down, which is strengthening our position also for the next year. But we have to define our full year budget before I will guide you on any number.

Hi, Jared. So the U.S. shutdown, from the information we received this morning, it's only going to impact domestic flights and that international flights, as of today, should be business as usual. On the political side in the Netherlands and in France, the main focuses for us are international Will there be any additional taxes or charges imposed on customers, passengers, or us directly, or airports? So far, we don't see anything different or new from what we've seen already and what we've been lobbying to change or get rid of. Again, one of the big negatives that impact us in France are The air traffic controller strikes. So far, we don't have any visibility for the rest of the year, so we're hoping things will stay stable. We have a new head of the government body which oversees the air traffic controllers. He is quite close to the file. It's their number one file today, so we're hopeful there will be some improvement because it's cost us a lot of money this quarter and a lot of money this year, and the the operational impact that we're experiencing is much worse. This is in France, much worse than any other country in Europe. And so far in the Netherlands, it's a bit too early to tell whether there will be any change in policy towards aviation.

Thanks very much.

The next question comes from a line of Stephen Furlong from Davie. Please go ahead.

Yeah, good morning, gentlemen. Maybe, Stephen, you can just talk about what's going on with cargo. Sometimes historically it's been a leading indicator, but I'd just like to understand because I haven't seen that level of declines from other airlines. And then, Ben, maybe can you talk about orally how – how the work is going there and obviously as you build up an entirely trans largely transavia business there uh i'd be interested in that thank you good morning uh stephen uh yeah let's say the the the booking window of cargo is very short so that is always difficult to predict

As I gave you the numbers for October, I think I want to be totally transparent where we are currently. I think we will be in that range also, let's say, for the coming month. But it's very difficult to exactly explain. But we saw last year that there was a lot of upfront loading towards the U.S., in expectations for what would be the outcome of the election. So that has first already before the elections it started. And then, of course, when Trump came into the White House, or at least he was elected to be in the White House in January, there was a lot of front-loading in that quarter. So Q4, if you still remember, we had a very good unit revenue on the cargo level, and that is going to normalize. So on itself, the demand is not... I think it is normal and it is, of course, better than in the other quarters. But I think the year-over-year reference is quite difficult due to the fact that we have this positive situation in the fourth quarter last year. Hi, Steven.

Regarding Orly, if you look at the overall Air France group, so Air France and Transavia and HUB, which is the regional carrier group, So excluding the rest of the business units in the Air France KLM. So just Air France Group. We're extremely pleased with the performance of the Air France Group, despite all the challenges we're having with the air traffic controllers and the rest of the operations and taxes that are being imposed specifically in France. So with respect to Transavia at Orly, it has to be taken in context with the entire Air France Group performance. because we've been progressively shifting slots from Air France to Transavia. So we have half of the capacity, 50% of the slots at Orly, which is about 150 departures, and we operate about one-third of those in 2018 were operated by Transavia, and the rest by Air France, our regional operator, Air France Hub. Those slots there are being transferred to Transavia and the totality of those slots will have been transferred to Transavia by April of next year. On many of those flights, it's a significant upgauge. If you take a HOP aircraft, as an example, 70 seats, and you're going to a 737 or an A320neo above 180 seats, it's a big jump, and we're cutting our domestic capacity by a couple digits, and so those slots are being redirected to new routes in Europe, and to start up a new route takes some time, but we do have a very, very strong position at Orbit, and we do have our loyalty program and we do have a cost structure that's similar to the competitors that we are going up against at Orly Airport. So the strategy we're quite pleased with. What is difficult to measure or to at least report out on is how the benefits flow between Transavia and Air France. So Air France has been able to shed the bulk of its domestic operation to date and will be the entire domestic operation in April and that of course will be transferred to a lower operating unit which is Transavia and we will have significantly reduced capacity. And this being done in a very complex, this is a project that should have been done 30 years ago. It was very, very difficult to put this into place. It impacts a lot of employees, a lot of unions are involved with this. And to be able to balance this out by saying, okay, we've Transavia is going to be profitable or not. I think, for me, if we can get the overall Air France group along the path that we've committed to the market to get it to an 8% margin, we're on the path. Is it being divided correctly between Transavia and Air France with this transfer? I'll give you an example. Whenever there is an air traffic controller strike to protect the long-haul line, which is our number one moneymaker, we try to shift the impact of the strikes or the airport to impact Transavia as an example. So they take the example of a negative like a strike. So I think it's unfortunate we're not able to put all that into our disclosure, into our press releases. But I think that kind of level of detail is I think if we were able to share that or if we had the time to share that, I think it would be accepted and well understood that the strategy is the right one. It has to be looked at in context with the rest of the Air France group performance, which, as you know, over the last two years, we've been hitting record coy results.

Thanks, Ben. Thanks, Stephen.

Our next question comes from a line of Harry Goers from JP Morgan. Please go ahead, Harry.

Hi, morning, gents. A couple of questions from me. First one, Stephen, I think you gave the plus 2% unit revenue remarks for October, which was for the passenger network. So maybe the network business, sorry. So maybe you could give us what you saw in Transavia specifically. Second question, I mean, just in terms of the French ticket tax increase, the shiphold tariff increases, clearly these are external headwinds which are impacting passenger demand to a certain extent for Air France specifically. So anything you can do at all to try and offset or minimise those impacts on demand? And then third question, just on the costs, do we have any idea yet or any visibility on where airport tariff increases could go in 2026? Thanks a lot.

Harry, let me come back on your questions and then maybe Bek will follow up on it. So let's first start on the unit revenues on Transavia. I don't have any number, to be honest, on Transavia yet. So we always wait for the full closing which we are going to do and on the passenger business because it's the main part. of our business i get a daily report so i have those those figures actually always up to date but i didn't hear any negative news for the moment and probably as we see bigger demand in october probably related also due to holidays i expect that also to come from transafria On the Schiphol tariff, yeah, it is a very terrible situation what we are overseeing there. We know that Schiphol was the number nine in terms of cost in Europe. We could develop very strongly our connecting traffic. And of course, the fact that they increased so much the tariff and we are a connecting airline, so we need to have lower cost than our competition. So we are working on that. So first we are working on it. in what we call back on track and you see the productivity measures are kicking in now in our unit cost to get that down also to compensate all those increased charges which we get at Schiphol and we have to review also what we are going to do with KLM what is the right model and we are working on that also close with, let's say, the Schiphol management, because we cannot go on like this. The first indication which you ask, what is the airport tariffs are going to do? So at least the good news is that they're not going up, but they went already up with more than 40%, but they're not going up in 26% for Schiphol. I don't have the indication for ADP yet, but usually they are much more modest in the last years.

Great. Thanks a lot.

The next question comes from a line of James Goodall from Rothschild & Co. Redburn. Please go ahead, James.

Hi, everyone. So three from me, please, as well. So just coming back to the 2% unit revenue increase in October, is there any color that you can give us in terms of how that's trending by region? Secondly, coming back to that chart on page six on the increasing premium mix, assuming that there's the flat yields over the course of the next three years, can you give us an indication of what the RASC accretion just in terms of mix would be from that premium cabin growth over the course of the next three years? And then finally, you know, with, leverage now sub two times liquidity is well above target. And I guess with a very positive direction for free cash flow generation as the exceptionals roll through and with EBIT expansion on the back of your medium term targets. Have you guys started to think about any potential use of that free cash flow? I guess you haven't paid a dividend since I think pre-GFC. Is there any potential in that restarting? Thank you.

So very good question. Let's first start with the coloring of October. So I think I already indicated that premium was doing much better than let's say the lower yielding segments. We see a very strong unit revenue actually in North America and actually all over the world on the long haul it is pretty strong. On, let's say, the European side, it is still going up, but it is not as strong as we are seeing on the long haul. So you could say that it is, let's say, 3% on the long haul and 1% on the European network. So still, the driving force is the long haul and the driving force is the premium traffic. Yeah, that's a very good question. We are just building, again, the budget for it, but I would say it is around 1% increase of unit revenues. That looks modest, but it is directly... it will bring a margin up with 1%. So I would say you have part which is in the unit revenue, but also part which is in the unit cost. And I would say if I have to give an indication in a pub quiz, because I don't have exact numbers here, I would give that it would bring at least 1% in margins on those networks. Then on the cash flow, we have indeed a very strong cash position and we are driving up now our cash flow. We will use that to pay off our hybrids because the hybrids are more expensive. than, let's say, a normal vanilla loan, as you have seen what we did in August. So the first thing for the short term, and the short term is for me 26, is to further pay off our hybrid stock. We have 500 million to pay to Apollo next year, and we will pay that from our own cash flow. That's at least if the situation stays where we are today. And then I think the moment of dividends is more when we end, actually, the era of that we don't have this payback of the social charges in France and the wage taxes in the Netherlands. So that's more for that time horizon. But it's not now, let's say, to disclose to the whole world. We need to first discuss that with the board because we didn't have these discussions with the board so far.

Brilliant. Thank you.

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Hi, everyone. Two questions, please. So first one regarding back on track for KLM. You mentioned the productivity is improving. So is it going faster than what you planned? And can we still expect 450 million improvement this year? And second one, on maintenance outlook, how do you see the current headwinds, impact EQ, tariff, FX and chain issue? Thank you.

Hi Antoine, how are you this morning?

To start with, back on track. So we still see this contribution of back on track. Of course, that is also to offset, let's say, the Schiphol tariffs and all those kind of increases of cost but we are fully in sync with the back on track target which we announced at the beginning of the year and we will come back on it at the full year results where we exactly are on the maintenance we don't see any real big impacts coming from the new terrace we usually the parts are excluded we know that some parts where there's a lot of metal can have an impact in terms of tariffs, but we don't see a significant increase. And you've seen the beautiful results in the third quarter from our engineering and maintenance business. So, so far, that impact is very, very limited and not noticeable and not material in our results.

Thank you.

The next question comes from a line of Antonio Duarte from Goodbody. Please go ahead.

Good morning, Ben, and good morning, Stephen. A question from me just on TransAvi FMA, and mainly in your, where do you see strengths and weakness within Europe considering this such increase in capacity? Any routes that you see special that you would like to highlight or where you're seeing particular weakness? Thank you.

So, I look at it from a different way. The strength of Paris and the fact that it's the largest inbound tourist market in all of Europe and that the airport is very close to Paris and has now got a new direct metro line directly into the terminal, a new line 14. It's a very attractive airport. We've not been able to exploit our position there in the past because the cost structure of Air France And HAARP was probably one of the highest in Europe. And we had a limit on the number of Transavia airplanes we could operate because of the collective agreement we had in place with the Air France pilots. So we negotiated in 2019. It was not an easy negotiation to have that limit removed. We can now operate as many Transavia flights as possible. So now with a competitive cost structure, we can really take advantage of the opportunity here in Paris. So I think the Parisian market is very strong. It's showing resilience. It's actually growing. So we're trying to position all the new capacity that we're putting into Europe with a strong focus on inbound. This is new for us. It's traffic we did not have in the past. And, of course, we're trying to deploy this traffic where also there's a strong outbound component as well from Paris. So, you know, the typical markets, leisure markets in Italy and Greece and Spain and Portugal are all still quite strong. But where we're seeing... Very, very good growth is in Northern Africa, in the Maghreb countries, so Morocco, in Algeria, in Tunisia, as well as Beirut, so in Lebanon and Tel Aviv and Israel, as well as a few destinations in Cairo. So it's quite a unique breadth of destinations that we've got. Not typical for a low-cost carrier, but the fact that it's got so many opportunities to to serve the Paris market with a very competitive cost structure, plus the benefits of Flying Blue. Not all the benefits. We don't want to bog it down with the costs that Flying Blue can sometimes entail, but there is... quite an array of unique benefits that we offer to customers on Transavia. So a loyal Air France customer does have a low-cost carrier option, which is quite unique in Europe from the main base city of the full-service airline that we have. Meanwhile, at Transavia Holland, we've been trying to manage through a situation where we don't have full visibility on the number of slots and the curfew situations at Schiphol. And, of course, the bulk of the Transavia aircraft at Schiphol do start their day early in the morning. So we do have... I think, more visibility than we had three years ago now that the Dutch government has agreed to go through the European Commission balanced approach process, which is enabling us to take some decisions on the deployment of our fleet at Transavia. And so we'll be refining the network offering at Transavia Holland, and we believe that this should improve in the near future.

That's right. Thank you.

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Hi, good morning. This is Kate Xiao on behalf of Muniba. I have a question on Unicost, which is tracking at the lower end of FY Guide. Just wanted to ask about 4Q Outlook. Are you seeing you know, the trend continue at about, you know, 1.3% year-on-year growth into 4Q and any kind of base effect we need to keep in mind when thinking about 4Q. And then just another question on your forward bookings on slide 17. If I'm reading the numbers right, I'm seeing about 2% to 4% kind of lower growth. loading factor compared to 2024, but the commentary is in line booking. So just if you could clarify that, am I reading the slide correctly? Thank you very much.

Good morning.

Let's first start on the unit cost. I'm quite optimistic about the fourth quarter unit cost. I already gave the indication where we would end in the second half year. And I think Q4 will even be a better development than Q3. We see quite some productivity coming in and with, let's say, the more modest labor costs increase. and also having our operations better running. We are quite optimistic on the fourth quarter, but we don't give an exact number. We have a full year guidance, and you can see where we will end for the full year. For the load factor, yeah, I think that what you, of course, the numbers are right. If you have followed also the previous presentations, you have seen that we have every time we had these kinds of gaps, and at the end of the day, we were able to close them. So in the first quarter, we were almost closing the full gap. In the second quarter, we were 0.1%, so in terms of load factor gap, so very close to zero, and we started almost the same. And in the third quarter, we also saw the same, and we closed at minus 0.5. So I don't say that we will fully close this load factor gap. We saw a small load factor gap. in october but we saw quite some good unit revenues but it is too soon to tell these are the numbers and of course there's no mistake in it that's very helpful thank you we have a question from exxon stasi from morgan stanley please go ahead exxon yeah morning everyone thanks for doing my questions i have two if i may and the first one is could you maybe provide any

Quantitative guidance on the back on track program contribution on EBIT for 2026. Do you still expect to be on track for the medium term guidance? And a second question is a follow up actually on the potential French corporate tax proposals. We have heard a lot of things in the press last week and, you know, many legislative hurdles before any such proposals actually passed. But could you just provide any indication of how much of group PBT is really to France?

Thank you very much. Good morning, Axel.

Yes, I'm back on track. We will see, of course, an outflow in 2026. I'm not yet there to guide you on the cost. As you know, I say that it's coming down and coming down and coming down. If you look at the unit cost increase, but we have not finalized the full guidance on it. The program on itself is delivering, but we see now that especially the low-yielding traffic is getting worse, so that I heard that especially also KLM plus the Schiphol Terrace, and we have to review what are our next steps with our KLM operations. So that is where we are currently working, and also together with the KLM management.

The second question, I don't have any figures, but... Axel, how it's been... From what we've seen over the last week, we don't have any aggregate figures on that and how that could impact us. As you know, things are moving all over the place. But the current government that's sitting, I think we have a good feeling that what we had in place last year is going to be very similar to what should be in place this year. But as you know, it's not very stable here. But the big items could impact us.

seem to be under control. And coming back, sorry, on the guidance, because that was a question, Axel, we will come back on that with the full year results. But we are still, let's say, aiming at 8% margin in the period 26-28.

Okay, thank you very much.

There are no further questions, so I hand back over to you, Serge, for closing remarks.

Okay, well, thank you, everyone, for joining us today, and we look forward to sharing our results at the end of the year, the end of the fourth quarter. Thank you.

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