Air France-KLM

July 29th marked the official deadline for submitting takeover bids in the privatisation of the Portuguese airline TAP Air Portugal. Two of Europe's largest airline groups, Air France-KLM and Lufthansa Group, have each submitted their offers to Parpública, the Portuguese state investment company, in order to acquire a stake…

Business travellers are accounting for an ever-smaller proportion of air passengers. According to the latest National Air Passenger Survey (ENPA) published by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC), they accounted for just 17% of passengers in 2025, compared with 19% the previous year. This is a far cry from the 28% recorded by the survey…

The American financial sirens will ultimately have had their way with easyJet's resistance to a US investment fund entering its capital. On Friday, 3 July, at the end of the day, easyJet announced that it had reached an agreement in principle with the American investment company Castlelake on a proposed acquisition valuing the airline at approximately 5.2 billion…

The companies of the Air France-KLM Group (Air France, KLM and Transavia) are reassuring customers who have not yet booked their holidays for the coming summer months. While questions about fuel availability have occupied the media space since spring, the information gathered to date allows the Group's companies to confirm that they will be…

The acquisition of a majority stake in SAS Scandinavian Airlines and, potentially, TAP Air Portugal, calls into question the name of the Air France-KLM duo, which will have to demonstrate greater "neutrality" in its description. With a new historical turning point expected for the Air France-KLM group: a change of…

Air France-KLM today took a further step in the process of privatising TAP Air Portugal by submitting a non-binding offer (NBO). The two-headed airline is not the only one courting TAP Air Portugal. Last November, Lufthansa expressed an interest in participating in the privatisation process...