Air France

The Air France-KLM group has announced its results for the fourth quarter of 2022 and for the past year. The Group made a profit: total Group sales reached 26.4 billion euros, while operating income amounted to 1.2 billion euros. This generated an operating margin of...

Let there be no mistake: SAF made in France is "in the pipeline". At least judging by the list of participants at this "Meeting on sustainable fuels for aviation", held on the morning of 14 February. All the decision-makers involved accepted the invitation of three ministers: Agnès Pannier-Runacher to...

An increase in capacity of 25% compared with 2019. This is what Air France will be offering to Canada this summer. In summer 2023, the airline will be operating up to 50 flights a week to five destinations: Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, as well as Quebec City and Ottawa during the summer season. Ottawa is in fact...

Anne-Marie Couderc, non-executive Chairman of the Air France-KLM group and of the Air France Board of Directors, Benjamin Smith, Chief Executive Officer of Air France-KLM, and Anne Rigail, Executive Vice President of Air France, welcomed the press this week as part of their annual New Year's greetings. This was an opportunity to unveil part of what will set the pace for Air France's development in 2023. The three personalities have...

Business travellers who have already become accustomed to using the famous instant messaging application will now be able to add another useful contact to their WhatsApp network. On Tuesday, Air France announced that it was joining the group of market players connected to WhatsApp, such as Latam and Amex GBT. The airline already had a presence on Facebook Messenger. It is now...

Air France's Caribbean Regional Network is set to evolve. The airline announced this on Monday, making official a new route between Cayenne and Belém. This will be part of a four-stop itinerary, which will include Pointe-à-Pitre, Fort-de-France, Cayenne and Belém. Air France points out that this will enable travellers from Guadeloupe and Martinique to reach Brazil...

From 20 January 2023, a Boeing 777-300 ER equipped with Air France's latest long-haul travel cabins will connect Paris-Charles de Gaulle to New York-JFK. The aircraft will also serve Rio de Janeiro airport from 21 January and Dakar on 22 January. The refitting of 12 Boeing 777-300 ERs in the long-haul fleet...

A few days after seeing its carbon emission reduction targets validated by the SBTi initiative - i.e. -30% by 2030 - , Air France-KLM is continuing its momentum with the announcement of an order for sustainable aviation fuel from TotalEnergies, adding to previous orders placed at the end of October with Neste and DG...

Air France-KLM is serious in its fight against global warming. The Air France-KLM Group and its airlines are committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from aviation fuel by 30% per revenue/tonne/kilometre (RTK) by 2030 compared with 2019. This ambition is in line with...

On Monday, Air France released some details of its roadmap for the summer of 2023. And several business destinations are included in this summer programme. The route between Paris CDG and Zanzibar will be strengthened with an additional frequency of three flights a week. Above all, a new route to Dar Es Salam will be...

After a test phase starting in July 2021, the SNCF is today launching its new "Train + Plane" (ex-TGVAIR) digital ticket in partnership with twelve airlines, including Air France, which has already switched to this solution since last summer and sold 40,000 tickets. The new service is designed to be entirely digital and does not require...

In Southern Europe, Air France-KLM has until now had its eyes on ITA. The previous Italian government had selected the consortium formed by Certares, Delta Air Lines and Air France-KLM. On August 31, this consortium was granted exclusive negotiating rights to acquire a stake in the airline. But everything...

Both the major hotel groups and the main airlines can be delighted with the results presented for the third quarter of the year. The period was buoyed by leisure customers, and in particular the welcome upturn in long-haul travel, but also by a traditionally busy September for business travellers. The Accor group explains...

Following in the footsteps of other airlines which have announced large-scale orders for sustainable aviation fuel in recent months, the Air France-KLM group is now one of the major purchasers of SAF. This "sustainable aviation fuel" is seen as one of the major solutions for decarbonising air transport. Air France-KLM has announced the signing of a...

The recovery is well and truly underway for Air France, as Henri de Peyrelongue, Executive Vice President Commercial Sales Air France-KLM and Henri Hourcade, Executive Vice President France Air France-KLM indicated at IFTM Top Resa. Traffic is almost at its pre-covid passenger level, as is the offer. "On North America, the offer is even greater than in 2019,...

Air France has unveiled its flight schedule to the African continent. The schedule includes a number of downward adjustments to frequencies during the month of November. This reduction in the number of flights particularly affects Abidjan, Douala, Lagos, Libreville, Luanda, Malabo and Pointe Noire. [link-block prefix="Also worth reading:" post="130329"] The biggest...

Modified on 14/09 at 10:15 This Friday 16 September, business travellers will have to cope with "severe disruption" to air traffic, according to a press release from the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC). The DGAC has reportedly asked airlines to cancel half of their flight schedules. The reason: a strike...

Gone are Lufthansa and its partner MSC. The future of ITA Airways lies with Air France KLM and the offer made alongside Certares and Delta. The Italian Ministry of the Economy and Finance made it official on August 31: "following the procedure governed by the decree of the Prime Minister, ITA Airways...

While Air France announced ten days ago the return of its Paris CDG-Newark route, suspended for twelve years, this is not the only new feature in the French carrier's long-haul winter programme. The airline will also be increasing frequencies on a number of routes. Miami and Costa Rica to...

From 12 December 2022, Air France will operate a daily direct service between its Paris-Charles de Gaulle hub and New York-Newark Liberty Airport (EWR). EWR is the second largest international airport in the New York area. It is located around 30 km from Manhattan. Air France had already operated a...