Air Berlin fare yields fell by 1 pct in October

FRANKFURT, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Air Berlin (AB1.DE: Quote, Profile, Research), Germany's second-biggest airline, said profitability per seat sold eased in October, which is the first decline this year.

Revenue per seat kilometre fell by 1 percent to 6.19 euro cents, the company said on Thursday. The load factor, a measure of capacity utilisation, widened by 0.2 percentage points to 80.2 percent.

The number of passengers Air Berlin transported fell by 0.9 percent to 2.73 million, including passenger on the former TUIfly city routes, which Air Berlin recently took over. (Reporting by Maria Sheahan, Editing by Michael Shields)