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Joon's future has been on hold for some weeks, even months. It is now sealed. Since his arrival at the head of Air France KLM, Benjamin Smith had made no secret of his doubts about this hybrid airline with its ambiguous positioning. For many observers, Joon was doomed to disappear or evolve. The disappearance of the...

Despite strikes and disruptions in governance, 2018 seems to have been a good year overall for the Air France KLM group. For the first time in its history, it even passed the symbolic 100 million passenger mark. In total, there were 101.4 million passengers in 2018, compared with...

On 17 December, Air France launched a new service designed to simplify the journey for business travellers wishing to use public transport to get to Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport. A baggage check-in counter has been set up at Paris-Nord station, next to track 3, opposite the SNCF shop. Open to...

With Benjamin Smith's term as interim CEO of Air France coming to an end at the end of the year, it became urgent to appoint a new boss to take the reins of Air France. And so it was that a female boss was chosen on Wednesday by the airline's Board of Directors. The internal option was...

Rumours very often have a basis in truth. And the rumour that has been circulating for a few weeks about the possible closure of Joon, Air France's hybrid subsidiary, seems to have found its way into the airline itself. It has to be said that Joon has yet to prove its worth, after just one year...

Will Joon, the hybrid airline launched by Air France, disappear just over a year after its launch? If Le Figaro is to be believed, its death certificate has almost already been written. "Benjamin Smith, the new CEO of the Air France-KLM group and interim CEO of Air France, has decided to...

It seems that the Airbus A380 has had a long life at Air France. The new management, led by Benjamin Smith, the new CEO, has announced that the airline will be reducing its A380 fleet by 50 %s, from 10 to 5 aircraft. The first two aircraft will be returned to their original...

"Reinventing travel, mobility and logistics" is the aim of BigBlank, the start-up incubator set up by Air France-KLM. A subsidiary of the group, the start-up studio aims to create, from innovative ideas, companies that will meet the future needs of travellers. To achieve this, BigBlank will help entrepreneurs transform their project into a start-up...

Is the global airline alliance model being undermined? In addition to Qatar Airways' forthcoming departure from Oneworld - the official date is only a matter of time now - China Southern has officially announced that it will be leaving the Skyteam alliance in 2019. The Chinese airline based in Guangzhou (Canton) indicated a few days ago that it would...

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....