Air France

Since February 2025, business travellers have been able to present their digital identity card to TGV INOUI, OUIGO and Intercités inspectors. From last October, they have been able to present their driving licence during a roadside check, made available within the France Identité app, while awaiting the possibility to use it for car hire. Now, they will be able to...

Arriving from Delhi and connecting to Seattle? Why not take a break to admire the Eiffel Tower or the Louvre? Air France and Extime Travel have just launched Paris Stopover, a new offer designed to transform layovers at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport into genuine tourist stays. Designed and operated by Extime Travel,...

Summer is a time prolific for creativity at Air France. The airline has indeed just unveiled its revisited La Première lounge at Paris-Charles de Gaulle. The company has aimed to further enhance its premium offering in order to provide its clients with ever more privacy and comfort. The lounge is, moreover, integrated into the philosophy of the…

The new Air France lounge opens its doors on July 7th at London-Heathrow, with a slight delay on the initial schedule which had planned an inauguration in the spring. Business travellers will thus be able to discover this 750 m² space, located within Terminal 4, and equipped with nearly 150 seats. Cap…

"A plethora of challenges". The annual congress of the National Federation of Aviation and its Trades (FNAM) provided an opportunity for its president, Pascal de Izaguirre, to revisit the numerous issues weighing on the activity and competitiveness of French airlines. Decarbonisation, tensions in the supply of new aircraft, armed conflicts,...

Updated on 27 May at 10:00 am. Although cancellations have fallen below April’s record high of 10,100 Q3 flights, according to Cirium, the situation in the Middle East remains turbulent, and rising oil prices and kerosene supply difficulties are weighing on the global aviation industry. An updated overview, airline by airline,…

Updated on 29 April at 09:30 Since 28 February, the skies of the Middle East have been in turmoil, even though activity is on the rise again. If, in the first days of the conflict, cancellation rates peaked above 65 %, according to Cirium, a recovery trend emerged from mid-March, with cancellations being…

When oil prices rise, airfares skyrocket. This equation was already in play in mid-March, when several airlines, particularly in Asia, began passing on the sharp rise in the price of a barrel to their passengers. The conflict in the Middle East and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz continue to have a significant effect on...

Updated on Thursday 16 April at 17:00 Since 28 February, the skies over the Middle East have been in turmoil, even if some companies, particularly from the Gulf, are regaining momentum. An updated overview of flight cancellations and suspensions by airline, and the outlook for the summer season. European Airlines AIR FRANCE has suspended…

70 years of operation has come to an end for a legendary airport, prior to its near disappearance. This is what the airline Air France did last weekend, closing its domestic routes from Paris-Orly to Marseille, Nice and Toulouse, handing over the baton to its low-cost subsidiary Transavia France. A chapter closes for the French national carrier and a...

Air France's 2026 summer schedule reflects the geopolitical situation in the Persian Gulf. The airline continues to avoid serving the Middle East, but is increasing capacity to a number of destinations in Asia. The long-haul offer continues to grow, with an increase of 2% in available seat kilometres compared with summer 2025. This...

Updated on Tuesday 24 March at 3:00 PM Air France will not operate any flights to/from Tel Aviv and Beirut until 4 April inclusive, nor any connections to and from Dubai and Riyadh before 28 March. While several carriers have already postponed services to Near and Middle Eastern metropolises to a later date,...

Updated on Tuesday 23 March at 6pm. Although EL AL has suspended almost all its flights to and from Tel Aviv until 21 March, with the exception of special flights to New York in coordination with the US State Department, the Israeli airline is slowly reopening its flight schedule as the feast of…

Updated on Thursday 26 March at 5.30pm Since 28 February, the skies over the Middle East have been in turmoil, with many airspaces closed and airports running at a standstill. Here's an update on flight cancellations, airline by airline. The situation at Air France-KLM Air France has suspended flights from and to...

The attack on Iran by Israel and the United States could not remain without consequences for air transport. Air fares have risen sharply, as a result of three factors: The drastic reduction in the number of flights available from the major Gulf hubs (Bahrain and Kuwait remain completely closed, while Abu Dhabi, Doha and Dubai are operating...

For years, the Gulf airlines have used their global hubs strategy to take some of their Asian traffic from European carriers. And vice versa. But now the war in the Gulf, with Iran regularly attacking its neighbours, has shaken - temporarily, it seems - the balance of power.

In 2025, the Air France-KLM Group achieved a record operating profit of 2.0 billion euros with more than 100 million passengers on its books - including 76.75 million passengers for the two carriers. This was a first in the history of the two airlines, which improved their operating margin to 6.1 %. As Benjamin...

Passengers will be delighted. Air France has announced a return to the Nice-Los Angeles and Nice-New York JFK routes. Except that this return will be very limited in time. Air France is launching direct flights between the three destinations, but only to coincide with the Cannes Film Festival and the Cannes Lions Festival...

On Wednesday 21 January 1976, at 12.40pm, the Air France Concorde (registration F-BVFA) made its first commercial flight to Rio de Janeiro after a stopover in Dakar. That day, after just 7 hours and 26 minutes in the air, Air France inaugurated its supersonic era, which would continue for 27 years, until 2003. Some 18,000 metres above sea level...

Since the end of 2025, Air France and SNCF Voyageurs have enhanced their "Train + Air" service. This service, which has existed for many years, allows passengers to combine air and rail travel on the same reservation. This offer continues to grow. In addition to the TGV INOUI trains, it is now possible to...