Air France

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...

Transavia, Air France's low-cost subsidiary, will be starting its first domestic routes from Orly and Nantes this autumn. On 2 November, Air France's low-cost subsidiary Transavia will take over the Paris Orly-Biarritz route, offering up to three daily frequencies. It will also be taking over four routes from Nantes-Atlantique, offering thirty weekly frequencies....

Air France has just announced new commercial measures to enable its customers to book their travel with complete peace of mind. The airline is hoping to attract passengers as it reintroduces flights to almost 170 destinations, including over 70 cities in Europe. If customers wish to cancel their trip, their ticket will...

A degree of normality seems to be returning to Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), the Texas megalopolis' main international hub. This upturn in activity follows an unprecedented decline in traffic due to Covid-19. According to the authorities at Houston Airports, which manages the city's four airports, two-thirds of international airlines have resumed flights...

The reopening of Paris-Orly airport at the end of June means that Air France is gradually returning to the southern Paris hub. Alongside its main hub at Roissy CDG, the airline now serves around twenty destinations from Orly. For the time being, the network is purely domestic, and includes the services of "La...

Both countries have confirmed that they will be operating special flights until at least 10 September. Air France is offering up to three daily flights between Paris CDG and Casablanca, two daily flights to Marrakech and one or two daily flights to Rabat. For its part, Royal Air Maroc is continuing to operate up to two daily flights from Paris to...

It was an election with the flavour of a plebiscite. With a turnout of 82.63% and 90.37% in favour, the SNPL, the majority union of Air France pilots, finally validated on 12 August the plan to reorganise the domestic network proposed by the management of the Air France-KLM group, after months of negotiations....

2020 will go down as one of the most difficult years for Strasbourg airport. After the COVID crisis, which halted all traffic for two months with the exception of medical, freight and repatriation flights, Strasbourg is now faced with the restructuring of the Air France group, with the cessation of flights in the near future...

COVID-19 weighed heavily on the Air France-KLM group's results in the first half of 2020. The number of passengers carried collapsed (-62% in the first half of 2020) while capacity fell by 53% for the group (including -89% in the second quarter alone). [link-block prefix="See also:" post="90597"] The losses are therefore...

India has closed its borders and suspended international flights since 23 March. However, since 16 July it has authorised certain routes under an "air bubble" agreement with Germany, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and France. These air corridors are initially in force from 22 July to...