Air France

Faced with a regulatory framework that is confusing to say the least, the business travel industry is getting organised to offer passengers a little visibility. Such is the case with Air France, which has announced the launch of a new, free and optional service called Ready to Fly. Already being tested by the airline since June, it has now been extended to...

The Air France group is resuming its expansion with the easing of sanitary conditions around the world. Starting with Transavia, which is continuing to beef up its short-haul network from Orly. Next winter, the carrier will be launching routes from the southern Paris airport to Berlin and Stockholm-Arlanda (three frequencies a week); Krakow (two frequencies a week) and Rome-Fiumicino...

For 25 years now, Air France and SNCF have been offering customers a service that combines rail and air travel in a single booking. This solution allows many French cities to be integrated into the Air France network. Called "Train + Air", this "combi" package is...

This summer, Air France will serve almost 200 destinations worldwide, including over 110 in France, Europe and North Africa. On the short and medium-haul network, in addition to its usual schedule, Air France will be offering 81 seasonal routes this summer, including 23 new ones. More than 40 summer routes will be offered on the domestic network, departing from Paris and...

Vaccination and decontamination are having a positive effect on travel demand, and the Air France-KLM group is reaping the benefits. The long-haul network of the two carriers is recovering. Air France has just announced the densification of its routes to the French overseas departments and territories and the Caribbean islands. The Caribbean zone...

France's first long-haul flight using Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) took place on 18 May. It was Air France flight 342 from Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport to Montreal. Its fuel tanks contained a sustainable aviation fuel produced in its own factories...

Admittedly, the health and regulatory context is not favourable, particularly for air travel. Admittedly, the opening of this route remains subject to possible changes, and conditional on the easing of travel restrictions. Nevertheless, Air France is planning to launch a new service from Paris-CDG. This will be a first for the alliance...

The transformation of the three billion euro loan into a capital increase by the French state in the airline Air France makes it a definitive aid for the company's survival. The four-year loan of three billion euros granted by the French government to Air France last year will no longer have to be repaid. In...

For many years, the most prestigious Air France agency faced the Pont Alexandre III in Paris. The Air France branch at Les Invalides was housed in a beautiful structure reminiscent of an orangery, built in 1900. Air France moved there in 1946. It housed an agency, a baggage check-in desk,...

While Air France has been trialling the ICC AOKpass health certificate on its flights from Paris-CDG to Pointe-à-Pitre and Fort-de-France since 11 March, the Minister Delegate for Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, sees a bright future for these solutions, which make travel more fluid through the secure, digital verification of Covid tests. "It can...

Air France to test the ICC AOKpass digital health certificate. The announcement of a pilot phase for the Covid solution for digitising test results comes just one day after that made by French Bee and Air Caraïbes. And, like the two airlines in the Dubreuil group, this test programme will cover...

Collect Flying Blue miles for personal use using your corporate card: Mooncard has become the first French player to enable companies and their employees to collect loyalty points when paying for their day-to-day business expenses. The French fintech company, which specialises in smart corporate cards and paperless expense management,...

Following the discovery of five covid-19 positive cases on an Air France flight between Paris-CDG and Tianjin near Beijing, the Chinese civil aviation authorities have suspended the route for 15 days. In practice, this decision complies with the rules laid down by the government. The government prohibits...

Air France and SNCF have just confirmed the launch of the "Train + Air" TGV service between Bordeaux Saint-Jean and Massy TGV stations. Massy TGV provides fast access to Orly airport. The first TGVs will start operating on 15 December, the date of the second phase of deconfinement. Passengers...

Benjamin Smith sees Transavia as a key element in a strategy designed to improve the group's short-haul business. This ramp-up of the low-cost subsidiary is being tested first on the domestic French market. During his speech, Benjamin Smith explained that Transavia would enable the Air France-KLM group to turn around a deficit situation on routes...

Last spring, Air France undertook to suspend its operations on domestic routes. This decision applies to routes where rail offers an alternative within 2.5 hours. While CDG has its own TGV station integrated into Terminal 2, Orly passengers must go to Massy TGV station at...

Air France is therefore drawing the necessary conclusions. The airline is returning to a flexible weekly management of its frequencies and destinations. The airline states on its website that "the short and medium-haul flight schedule is up to date until 8 November inclusive. However, last-minute cancellations are possible. Adaptations to our...

The consolidation of all air traffic onto a single hub will take effect on 8 November at Berlin Brandenburg International (BBI) airport, the German capital's new air hub. It took twelve years to inaugurate BBI. Corruption scandals and construction errors undermined the development of the airport.

The impact of new travel restrictions from September has weighed on the Air France-KLM group's third-quarter results. The airline duo announced revenues down by 67% (€2,524 million) and passenger numbers down by almost 70% (8.8 million). These figures include the...

Air France is adapting its commercial policy and offering its customers "100% flexible" tickets to help them with their travel plans and make it easier for them to deal with unforeseen circumstances. Air France had already revised its flight conditions for its passengers in order to offer additional security at a time when the weather conditions...