Franco-Dutch airline Air France-KLM Wednesday reported increases in traffic, capacity and load factor for the month of November. Meanwhile, cargo traffic declined 8.1 percent for a 2.3 percent drop in capacity. Cargo load factor decreased 4.3 point to 68.2 percent. Passenger traffic in the month improved 2.5 percent to 16.85 billion revenue pax kilometrres, or [...]
Cost-cutting is back at the top of the boardroom agenda as airlines battle to deal with the sustained high price of oil combined with the continuing sluggishness of economies across the globe. Emirates Airline, Air France-KLM and Scandinavian Airlines have all declared a new war on costs. The Dubai-based airline says it is having “another [...]
Air France KLM today (September 7) reported a 7.6% rise in traffic for August compared with the same month last year. The airline said capacity rose during the month by 6.1% which also saw a 1.2% increase in its load factor to 85.7%. During the month, the airline said it carried 6.8m passengers, an increase [...]
Air France said Monday it was to launch cheap medium-haul flights from French provincial cities in a bid to boost passenger figures and reclaim market share from low-cost carriers. French-Dutch aviation giant Air France-KLM announced that, starting on October 2, 13 new flights would link the southern city of Marseille to destinations in France, Europe [...]
Air France-KLM (AF) Group, Europe’s biggest airline, plans to split an order for about 100 widebody planes between Airbus SAS and Boeing Co. (BA), Chief Executive Officer Pierre Henri Gourgeon told French politicians. Gourgeon declared his intention to divide the contract yesterday in a closed-door hearing at the French national assembly’s commission for sustainable development. [...]
Air France-KLM Group plans to expand the role of its holding company to encourage greater integration between the French and Dutch units and allow for the possible acquisition of carriers including Alitalia SpA. Under the structure, Chief Executive Officer Pierre-Henri Gourgeon will remain as group head while relinquishing the top job at Air France to [...]
After the release of preliminary data regarding the ill-fated Air France flight 447, aviation experts have said that lives could be saved with better pilot training. The recently recovered flight data recorders from the Airbus A330 show that the pilots of the jet had the opportunity to recover it from a three-minute plunge into the [...]
Case-in-point: Air France’s Premium Voyager summer sale. Premium Voyager is the French flag carrier’s take on premium economy. It provides 40 percent more space, a new shell-shaped seat that begets a bit more privacy, a wider video screen, and a smattering of business class amenities – travel kit, better headphones, feather pillow and wool blanket. [...]
French investigators will begin examining the black box data recorders from the Air France Rio to Paris flight that mysteriously crashed over the Atlantic in June 2009, killing all 228 people on board. The two flight recorders were shown to journalists for the first time as they arrived in Paris after being fished from the [...]