One week to the day after Pierre-Henri Gourgeon was ousted from the Air France KLM group, Jean-Cyril Spinetta speaks out in an interview with Le Monde. He has already set out one of the main tasks that Alexandre de Juniac will have to tackle as soon as he takes over at the helm of Air France: "reacting to the emergence of new competitors, particularly low-cost carriers". The recent In the words of Ryanair's CEOAir France, which plans to almost double its traffic over the next ten years, bears witness to increasingly tough competition in the airline sector, which Air France's regional offensive should help to contain. Jean-Cyril Spinetta also touched on the infighting within the French carrier that cost Pierre-Henri Gourgeon his job. In particular, he referred to "differences of opinion [which] unfortunately crystallised into a conflict of legitimacy".
