Air France

The FlexFly platform, launched by Air France last April and tested by the airline over a period of several months, is designed to enable private individuals to purchase tickets that have not been used by another passenger due to unforeseen circumstances. Its principle is based on that of participative economy platforms. Through Flexfly, a...

Air France-KLM has unveiled its winter programme, with capacity - expressed in seat-kilometres - increasing by 2.8%, compared with just 1.1% for the medium- and short-haul network passenger business. This represents 44 new routes on the long-haul medium- and short-haul networks compared with winter 2017-2018, giving a total increase in capacity of 2.5%. On...

To help French start-ups develop, Air France is offering passengers the chance to try out the services and products of ten companies specialising in new technologies, as part of the "French Tech takes off" operation. Six of them can be discovered until 12 October in the lounge in hall M of terminal...

The anecdote would certainly make you smile. At the beginning of July, the American news agency Bloomberg published a very serious article about the reduction in the surface area of aircraft cabins... toilets. In reference, Delta Air Lines was the first, back in 2014, to use a narrower model on its domestic and regional routes. The...

We now know more about the roll-out of wifi on board Air France aircraft. On Wednesday, the airline set out its plans for the Air France Connect programme, which will be marketed on the basis of three offers. The free 'Message' pass, as its name suggests, will be limited to messaging applications, to the...

Patrick Alexandre, Executive Vice President Air France-KLM Commercial, Sales and Alliances and Zoran Jelkic, Executive Vice President Market France reviewed the airline's development on Tuesday at the IFTM Top Resa trade fair. In an economic climate troubled by social unrest in the first half of the year, the carrier has held up well. "Our performance is good and progressing...

How would you broadly define the Joon brand? Jean-Michel Mathieu - Joon is Air France's take on new-generation travel; travel for everyone, not just millennials. To create this airline, we have drawn on very contemporary codes, particularly those used by the 18-35 age group:...

The Airbus A330 in Air France livery will make its debut on the tarmac at Dallas-Fort Worth airport on 31 March. This new destination will be served up to five times a week, with a total capacity of 224 seats, including 36 in the Business cabin, 21 in Premium Economy and 167 in Economy: "The most beautiful...

Barely appointed by the Air France Board of Directors, and with the open support of the French government - Air France's main shareholder - the new CEO of Air France, Benjamin Smith, is already causing controversy. He will officially take up his post on September 30, but his arrival is causing waves among the trade unions, which are...

Air France KLM does have a pilot. Or at least, his arrival is imminent. As had been rumoured for several days, Ben Smith has been chosen to take the helm of the airline group, which has been without any real governance since the resignation of its CEO, Jean-Marc Janaillac, three months ago. [link-block prefix="See also:"...

Journalists who accepted Air France KLM's invitation on 1 August in search of information about the group's new governance were left wanting more. As a symbol, Anne-Marie Couderc, acting Chairman, did not make the trip to the Pullman Tour Eiffel on Wednesday morning for the traditional announcement of the half-year results....

The project did not make it past the summer... Since the beginning of June, AccorHotels had been looking at Air France KLM. The French hotelier had even expressed its interest in a very official way, by way of a press release. Since then, the airline group has not really moved out of the...

If there is one area where the 'globalisation' effect is in full swing, it is air transport, with its multiplication of networks and hubs, the famous hubs for connecting flights. Hardly a day goes by without one or more airlines inaugurating new routes. Sabre, a provider of technology services to the air transport industry, has...

Partly unveiled last January, the new Air France Business lounge in Hall L of terminal 2E at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport is now fully open to business travellers. With a total surface area of 3,200 sq. m., compared with 2,180 sq. m. accessible to the public until now, and a seating capacity of 540, this...

Could AccorHotels become a shareholder in Air France-KLM instead of the French state? The hotel group announced on Sunday evening its interest in taking over the 14.3 % stake in the airline. This would make AccorHotels the largest shareholder, ahead of Delta Air Lines and China Eastern, which took a stake in Air France-KLM last year and both hold 8.8 % of the airline's...

Air France and Qantas have just renewed a code-share agreement which in fact enables Air France to consolidate its position in the Asia-Pacific market, one of the world's most buoyant markets. "Thanks to this agreement, the Air France-KLM group is able to offer its customers one of the best travel solutions from Europe to Australia. This...

At its meeting this morning, the Air France-KLM Board of Directors appointed Anne-Marie Couderc as head of the airline group. A member of the Air France-KLM Board of Directors, the former minister in Alain Juppé's government between 1995 and 1997 will take over as interim CEO following Jean-Marc Janaillac's resignation, following the rejection of his proposed wage agreement. The members of the Board...

On this first day of strike action following the resignation of Air France-KLM CEO Jean-Marc Janaillac, the airline is expected to record its lowest cancellation rate since the strike began in February. In fact, Air France expects to operate almost 85% of its flight schedule this Monday 7 May. Almost all of these -...

On Friday 4 May, the majority of Air France employees said "no" to the proposed wage agreement launched by the CEO of Air France-KLM in an attempt to end the strike action. All Air France employees were asked to respond to the question "In order to achieve a positive outcome to the current dispute, are you in favour of...

This Thursday 3 May sees the start of another round of strikes, both on the SNCF network and at Air France. On the rail network, SNCF expects to operate half of its scheduled TGV services. Internationally, 3 out of 5 trains should be able to accommodate business travellers. The Lyria network (2 trains out of...