Air France to Extend Seat, Route Cuts After Profit Decline

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Air France-KLM Group will drop routes, curb winter-season seating capacity and deepen other cost-cutting measures after second-quarter earnings tumbled 22 percent.

Operating profit fell to 185 million euros ($203 million), hurt by a continuing slide in fares and a stronger dollar that increased fuel prices, the Paris-based company said Friday.