Air France

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...

On Tuesday 21 July, four of the world's largest carriers - American Airlines, IAG, Lufthansa and United Airlines - asked the European Commission and the White House to set up a programme for testing passengers to determine whether they are negative for COVID-19. Such a measure would encourage a resumption of travel between...

At a time when Paris was putting pressure on Beijing to grant Air France-KLM as many flights between China and France as Chinese airlines, i.e. three weekly connections, the French airline received notification yesterday that it had been authorised to operate a second flight between Paris and Shanghai, a new weekly service which should begin as early as this week...

The Air France group's restructuring plan today confirms the closure of some of its domestic routes, in order to meet the target of reducing capacity on the French domestic network by 40% by the end of 2021. This was one of the conditions laid down by the French government for financial support totalling seven billion euros, of which...

Air France is stepping up a gear as summer approaches. The airline has set a target of 150 destinations connected this summer, representing 80% of its network. However, the programme will logically remain limited: at the end of the month, 20% of the usual capacity will be operational. The ratio will reach 35% in July, and 40%...

Is it a bluff or a helping hand for the Minister of the Economy? On 24 May, Bruno Le Maire announced a €7 billion package which, in his words, "is not a blank cheque. We have set Air France profitability conditions, because it's the French people's money...

Another victim of the Covid-19 pandemic, Air France's fleet of nine Airbus A380s will not be returned to service once the crisis is over for the carrier. Air France had decided to ground these nine aircraft at the start of the pandemic, but the crisis hastened the decision to stop operating them. Originally,...

Following in the footsteps of British Airways, the Lufthansa group, TAP Air Portugal and KLM, Air France has now revealed which airlines it will be reintroducing into service, although the programme is still subject to the uncertainties associated with the lifting of travel restrictions. The flight schedule is valid until the end of the month...

Unsurprisingly, the Air France-KLM group's balance sheet, examined on 6 May by the group's Board of Directors, has been shaken by the Covid-19 effect. According to the figures unveiled by the airline group, operating income of €815 million is €529 million down on the previous year, a decline "entirely due to the impact of the Covid...

The announcement of a €7 billion support plan for Air France, made official on 24 April, included a number of quid pro quos, and the environmental aspect was explicitly targeted. Wednesday's comments by Bruno Le Maire confirmed the creditor's demands of the company, emphasising that "this support for Air France is not a condition for the...

As confirmed on 24 April by the management of the Franco-Dutch group, France will release a €7 billion package to ensure the survival of the Air France KLM group. Most of this aid (four billion) will be based on a loan guaranteed by the French State, which provides for two one-year extension options....

Since last Monday, the French airline has been distributing masks at the entrance to aircraft to passengers who are not already wearing them, a measure introduced for flights on which social distancing between passengers is not possible. The company was recently singled out for criticism by a France 2 report showing the lack of...