Air France may reopen its flights to Tripoli from Paris more than two decades, the carrier said on Monday. "The Paris Charles de Gaulle to Tripoli route is among the destinations of potential interest to Air France," a spokeswoman for the French airline told AFP, without indicating when a decision...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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”...

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...

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...

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...

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...