British Airways followed its larger European rival, Air France-KLM, by reporting a net loss for its fiscal year.

英国航空公司继其欧洲强劲对手法航荷航集团之后，也宣布其本财年为净亏损。

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The charges of unfair competition from the likes of Lufthansa, Air France-KLM and Air Canada fail to stack up.

来自汉莎航空，法国KLM航空以及加拿大航空的指责并未产生过多影响。

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Analysts said Europe's legacy flag carriers, including British Airways, Lufthansa and the Air France-KLM combination, would feel the most pain from the shutdown because they have high fixed costs.

分析人士指出，欧洲剩下的标志性航空企业，包括英国航空，德国汉莎航空和法国荷兰联合航空，在这次停飞中承受的损失最大，因为他们存在太高的固定成本。

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Air France KLM, for example, announced unexpectedly last month that its new chief executive would be Alexandre de Juniac, formerly chief of staff to Christine Lagarde when she was France's finance minister.

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The group's busiest airport, Inverness, which handled about half of all HIAL passengers, recorded growth of 0.5%, which the company attributed to an increase in international traffic due to the success of the city's Amsterdam route and the recently introduced Air France KLM code share.

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The biggest challenge to the incumbent airlines operating out of Heathrow will come from carriers in the SkyTeam alliance, that includes Air France and KLM, Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines News, and Continental Airlines.

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