Posted by mkmajeed in Airline Financial News on January 12th, 2010 | No Comments
Air France-KLM reported traffic down during December
Air France-KLM has reported that its traffic in December 2009 decreased 4.6% to 16.07 billion revenue pax-kilometers, compared to 16.84 billion revenue pax-kilometers in December 2008. The airline’s capacity decreased 5.5% to 20.16 billion available seat-kilometers, compared to 21.35 billion available...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on December 1st, 2009 | No Comments
Air France A380 returns to New York after computer glitch
An Air France A380 super-jumbo jet returned to New York 90 minutes after taking off for Paris on Saturday because of a glitch with its navigation system, Agence France Presse reported Monday. "The plane is new and is still getting into its stride," an Air France spokesman told AFP. "It...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline Financial News on September 15th, 2009 | No Comments
Air France and KLM in talks to take minority stake in Japan Airlines
Air France-KLM is in talks with Japan Airlines to form an alliance by injecting a few hundred million dollars and taking a minority stake in the struggling carrier, a source familiar with the matter said. Air France-KLM, Delta Air Lines and American Airlines are in separate "early stage" talks...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on August 28th, 2009 | No Comments
Codeshare deal extended between China Southern airlines and Air France
China Southern Airlines and Air France have expanded their codeshare agreement to another six routes. Air France will place its code on China Southern’s Guangzhou-Kunming, Guangzhou-Xiamen and Guangzhou-Wenzhou services, say the SkyTeam alliance members. China Southern’s code will be placed...
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Posted by Yamna in Current Affairs on June 12th, 2009 | No Comments
Woman missed fatal Air France flight, dies in car crash
An Italian woman who arrived late at the airport for the fatal Air France flight 447 has died in a car accident, according to ANSA news agency. Johanna Ganthaler, a pensioner from the Bolzano-Bozen Province (South Tyrol, Italy) and her husband, Kirk, were on vacation in Brazil and missed flight 447 after...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline Offers on May 18th, 2009 | No Comments
Air France : Spring Sale in Full Bloom!
Book before 05 June. Air France is offers spring sale on all major long-haul flights from UK, a look at some of the fares offered by Air France can be seen below Flights to Dubai  from £265. Flights to Hong Kong cost from £336 Havana flights as low as £367 Flights to Singapore from £415...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Worldwide Flights on May 8th, 2009 | No Comments
2009 Cannes Film Festival Air France at the Movies
Like last year, Air France is spotlighting the Cannes Film Festival in its in-flight entertainment programme. During May, a selection of past winners from the Festival will be available to watch on board in the “Movies” section. * "Entre les murs", by Laurent Cantet, Palme d’Or in 2008...
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Posted by Naseer Ahmad in Airline News on May 8th, 2009 | No Comments
Relaunch of Alitalia progressing as planned: Air France
Nearly two months in, the Air France–KLM takeover of Alitalia is progressing “in line” with the business plan the Franco-Dutch carrier had outlined, with a smaller crew and a more regional focus. Jean-Cyril Spinetta, Air France Chairman, has been reported by local media saying that he was “pleased”...
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Posted by Yamna in Worldwide Flights on April 30th, 2009 | No Comments
France urges EU ban on Mexico-bound flights
How far should Europe go to protect itself from swine flu?  While passengers continue to return from Mexico, France will call for an EU-wide ban on all flights to the stricken country. The proposition will be discussed by the bloc’s health ministers. But, with precautions already being taken at...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Worldwide Flights on April 25th, 2009 | No Comments
US authorites divert Air France flight carrying ‘no-fly’ journalist to Mexico
Hernando Calvo Ospina, who works for Le Monde Diplomatique and has written on revolutionary movements in Cuba and Colombia , figured on the US authorities’ "no-fly list". Air France said the April 18 flight was forced to divert to the French Caribbean island of Martinique before continuing...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Worldwide Flights on April 21st, 2009 | No Comments
Air France KLM and Travelport GDS Sign Global Full Content Agreement
Travelport GDS, one of the world’s leading providers of global distribution systems (GDS), and Air France KLM, one of the world’s largest airline groups, have today jointly announced a new, multi-year global distribution agreement which will see full content provided to all Galileo and Worldspan-connected...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on April 18th, 2009 | No Comments
Air France maintains Paris dominance especially on domestic route
In the same way that London’s multiple airports dominate air travel in the United Kingdom, air travel in and out of France is dominated by Paris, which is served by two main airports at Orly and Roissy (Charles de Gaulle). In 2008 London’s five major airports (Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline Financial News on April 15th, 2009 | No Comments
Crisis-hit Air France to cut up to 3,000 jobs
PARIS (AFP) — Air France said on Wednesday it would cut up to 3,000 jobs over the next two years as the European airline giant feels the pinch following a sharp decline in traffic due to the global economic crisis. "We should reduce our staff by 2,500 to 3,000 in the next two financial years,"...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on April 14th, 2009 | No Comments
Air France-KLM in talks with domestic airlines for code-share
Amsterdam, April 13 Air France-KLMKLM is in talks with Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines for having a code-share agreement, a senior KLM airline official has said. The conclusion of the code-share agreement could help passengers, especially from smaller cities, to travel further on the network of...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline Financial News on April 8th, 2009 | No Comments
Aer Lingus plans no merger with Air France
Irish airline Aer Lingus (ISE:AERL) denied having discussed a possible merger with Air France-KLM, The Irish Examiner wrote Wednesday (8 April 2009). An insider, however, said that the senior management of the two carriers met in Paris two weeks ago and expected the government and shareholders to support...
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