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Allez Hop! as Air France targets budget airlines Air France-KLM is trying to take on the low-costs with a new airline. Hop! has been created through the merger of its regional units Brit Air, Regional Air… 26/03/2013
Air France-KLM trims losses but remains cautious There was mixed news from Air France-KLM as it trimmed its operating losses last year. It did that by booking more passengers in its planes and it was also… 22/02/2013
Air France toe-to-toe with the low-cost carriers Air France is trying to take on the low-cost airlines by introducing a series of mini-fares on domestic flights. A reserved seat and checked-in bags are not… 07/01/2013
Delta ‘may buy Virgin Atlantic stake’ Delta has emerged as a possible buyer of a 49 percent stake in the British airline Virgin Atlantic. Singapore Airlines has confirmed it is in talks with… 03/12/2012
Europe’s top airlines fly high The European aviation sector had wind under its wings on Wednesday, boosted by Air France-KLM and Lufthansa’s better-than-expected quarterly results. The… 31/10/2012
Scuffles between police and Air France workers at Paris airport – nocomment Striking Air France workers have clashed with police inside Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris while demonstrating against job cuts. 28/10/2012
Pilot agreement boosts Air France shares Air France-KLM’s shares rose on Friday after its pilots backed proposals to alter their contracts and working conditions. That is part of the airline’s… 17/08/2012
Air France-KLM’s share price boost hides future concerns Air France-KLM’s better than expected second quarter performance cheered investors. Shares of the group, formed by the merger of French and Dutch giants in… 30/07/2012
Air France suffers net loss Airline group Air France-KLM has cut its operating losses to 66 million euros for the second quarter, compared with 145 million a year earlier. The results… 30/07/2012
Air France speeds up job cuts Air France-KLM has unveiled plans is to cut more than 5,000 jobs by the end of next year. It is part of the Franco-Dutch carrier’s effort – announced… 21/06/2012
Air France-KLM talks job cuts with unions Air France-KLM has started difficult negotiations with its unions over job cuts. The Franco-Dutch airline wants to become more competitive against low-cost… 24/05/2012
Mixed results in the air industry Announcing better than expected earnings for last year, aerospace group EADS is predicting a big jump in operating profit this year to 2.5 billion euros… 08/03/2012
Air France-KLM turnaround plan unveiled Air France-KLM has announced a pay freeze for French staff and cutbacks in its fleet as part of a three-year turnaround plan. Europe’s largest airline in… 13/01/2012
Plane order battle hots up Ahead of next week’s Paris Air Show, order news is starting to build. Hong Kong Airlines has said it plans to buy an as-yet-unspecified number of Airbus… 13/06/2011
Air France crash probe to reveal more – nocomment French investigators probing the crash of Air France flight 447, which crashed into the sea off the coast of Rio killing all 228 people, will know on Monday… 12/05/2011
Scuffles break out over job cuts at Paris airportStriking Air France workers have clashed with police inside Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport in Paris. Scuffles broke out in one of the airport’s departure… 28/10/2012
Air France crash investigators accused of denialPilots and victim’s families have expressed their dissatisfaction at the Air France crash verdict, with several too upset to talk in public… 05/07/2012
Rio-Paris downed by equipment and pilot failureThe official inquiry into the ill-fated flight AF 447 from Rio to Paris, which crashed in 2009 with the loss of all 228 people on board, has reported its… 05/07/2012
Air France hit again by labour rights strikeAir France has again cancelled up to 40 percent of its long-distance flights on the third day of a strike by pilots and other staff. Some other airlines… 08/02/2012
Strike over right to strike hits French flightsHundreds of flights in France have been cancelled on day two of a four-day walkout over plans to make aviation workers give more notice before striking. Air… 07/02/2012
Air France partially grounded by pilot strikeAir France was forced to cancel around 20 per cent of its flights on Monday as pilots protested over plans to reform industrial action laws. The government… 06/02/2012
Air France strike hits holiday travellersA strike is grounding planes in France during a busy holiday weekend. Air France has cancelled about one in five flights after attendants began a five-day… 29/10/2011
Rio-Paris crash inquiry urges better pilot trainingBetter pilot training is being called for after the black boxes of doomed Air France Flight 447 delivered their secrets. Those manning the controls of the… 30/07/2011
Crash probe says Rio-Paris crew ignored warningsThe pilots of an Air France flight which plunged into the Atlantic ignored warnings and failed to follow textbook procedures according to a new… 29/07/2011
French plane crash bodies return homeA salvage vessel carrying the bodies of 104 people who died in the 2009 Air France plane crash has docked in the south-western French port city of… 16/06/2011
2009 Air France crash black box reveals first secretsAnalysis of black boxes from the Air France crash two years ago shows the plane fell erratically for over three and a half minutes before hitting the Atlantic… 28/05/2011
Air France jet stalled in mid airThe Air France plane that plunged into the Atlantic en route from Brazil to France in 2009 stalled in mid air, according to French investigators. The black… 27/05/2011
Rio-Paris crash probe raises no urgent A330 safety concernsFirst readings of flight recorder data from an Air France passenger plane that crashed in the Atlantic have eased any immediate concerns over the A330… 17/05/2011
Air France crash probe to reveal more on MondayFrench investigators probing the crash of Air France flight 447, which crashed into the sea off the coast of Rio killing all 228 people, will know on Monday… 12/05/2011
Air France flight 447 relatives want bodies backBrazilian relatives of the 228 victims of Air France flight 447, which crashed into the sea en route from Rio to Paris in 2009, have been reacting to a… 11/05/2011
Opinions split on recovery of bodies from air disasterThe recovery of a body from the shattered wreckage of flight AF 447 almost four kilometres beneath the surface of the ocean has highlighted the debate on… 06/05/2011
Officials find second black box from Air France crashFrench investigators said on Tuesday that have found the second flight recorder of the Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic almost two years… 03/05/2011
Air France data recorder from crash jet foundFrench search teams have found one of two data recorders from an Air France flight that crashed off the coast of Brazil nearly two years ago. The object was… 01/05/2011
Bodies found after 2009 Air France crashFrench experts say they could start recovering bodies of victims of the Air France plane that crashed off Brazil within weeks. The Airbus plunged into the… 04/04/2011
Air France crash: fresh hopes of solving 2009 mysteryAn initial search found wreckage and bodies. Now, nearly two years after an Air France plane plunged into the Atlantic, investigators may be closer to… 04/04/2011
Snow job for airline profitEurope’s airlines are starting to add up the cost of the weather disruptions. AirFrance-KLM says the latest problems over the weekend will mean a loss of… 21/12/2010
The Concorde’s tragic demiseIt was a quarter to five in the evening on July 25, 2000. An Air France Concorde crashed after take-off in Paris. The plane came down on a hotel not far from… 25/07/2010
Air France-KLM planes fullerAir France-KLM’s revenues rose strongly in June. Passenger and cargo activity grew faster than the airline’s capacity, which it deliberately kept low during… 07/07/2010
Air France-KLM posts huge lossesAir France-KLM has announced a loss for the year 2009-2010 of over one and a half billion euros, the worst since the group was formed in 2004. It follows on… 19/05/2010
Ash clouds Air France KLM traffic figuresAir France KLM on Monday became the latest airline to reported a major slump in traffic in April because of the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud airspace… 10/05/2010
Air France crash probe hones in on black boxesInvestigators probing the crash of Air France flight 447 say they have narrowed down the location of the aircraft’s black boxes. The Airbus A330 crashed in… 06/05/2010
Air France crash probe narrows black box locationInvestigators probing the crash of Air France Flight 447 say they have narrowed down the location of the aircraft’s black boxes. Two sophisticated salvage… 06/05/2010
Search resumes for answers to Air France crashInvestigators into last June’s Air France crash in the Atlantic have launched the third phase of the operation to recover the Airbus 330’s flight… 26/03/2010
Air France and Ryanair in subsidy rowAir France is angry at low-cost Irish carrier Ryanair which it said is getting unfair subsidies from European regional governments to use their airports. It… 11/03/2010
Fewer passengers for Air France-KLMPassenger traffic at Air France-KLM fell in January by 1.6 percent, but there were fewer empty seats as the airline reduced the number of flights. The… 08/02/2010
Concorde: Paris court caseNearly 10 years after Concorde crashed into a hotel in Paris, killing 113 people, a French court is to begin proceedings to establish exactly who was to… 01/02/2010
First transatlantic flight for superjumbo jetAn Air France A380 has touched down at Kennedy airport. The Paris to NewYork journey was the world’s largest airliner’s inaugural transatlantic flight… 21/11/2009
Air France gets hold of its first airbusAir France has become the first European airline to get its hands on an Airbus A380. The French company was presented with the giant passenger carrier at a… 30/10/2009
Air France crash relatives’ anger over investigationThe agonising wait for information goes on for relatives of the victims of the Air France crash three months ago. After their first meeting with the… 25/09/2009
Suitors line up for JALAir France-KLM is reportedly the latest company that wants to invest in Japan Airlines. Various carriers are keen to take a stake in the loss-making JAL in… 15/09/2009
Air France to cut more staffAir France has launched a voluntary redundancy scheme to eliminate 1,500 jobs to reduce costs. Negotiations are now underway with the unions. The… 04/09/2009
Friday 31st JulyEuropean shares finished lower as investors reacted negatively to the bigger than expected drop in US consumer spending in the second quarter. But the… 31/07/2009
First report delivered into AF447 crashFrench investigators looking into the Air France crash over the Atlantic a month ago have delivered their first report. They said they were still far from… 02/07/2009
French Navy searches for Comoros jet wreckageTwo French Navy ships are expected to arrive today in an area where a Yemeni airliner crashed into the sea off the Comoros Islands . The French military… 01/07/2009
Yemen defends airline’s safetyYemen’s transport minister said the stricken plane had passed an inspection in May, supervised by Airbus engineers, and in line with international standards… 30/06/2009
Anger at Yemen’s “dustbin” airlineYemenia airlines is increasingly coming under fire especially from relatives of the victims left at the other end of the tragic journey. Back in Paris and… 30/06/2009
Comoros crash survivor foundRescuers searching the Indian Ocean for survivors of the Comoros plane crash have picked up a 14-year old girl, alive, from the water. 153 people were on… 30/06/2009
Brazil calls off Air France searchNearly four weeks after the Air France plane crash, Brazil has called off the search for victims and wreckage. Flight 447 came down in the Atlantic on June… 27/06/2009
Air France denies black box detectedAir crash investigators have denied finding the flight recorders of the Air France airliner which came down earlier this month. It follows a report in the… 23/06/2009
Confusion over Air France black box signalsAs the search continues for bodies and wreckage from the Air France crash there is confusion over whether the black boxes have been located. A French news… 23/06/2009
Air France to compensate crash victimsAir France says it will compensate families of victims aboard flight 447 which was lost over the Atlantic on June 1st. The airline says it still does not know… 20/06/2009
Air France to cut more jobsEurope’s biggest airline,Air France-KLM, may need to cut a further 3,000 jobs its chief executive has confirmed. Asked to comment on a newspaper report… 19/06/2009
Air France investigators expect breakthroughInvestigators into the Air France crash which killed 228 people have expressed guarded optimism that a cause will be found. Paul Louis Arslanian, the… 17/06/2009
Airbus calls for patience on crash causeAs the search for more bodies and debris from Air France 447 continues over the Atlantic off Brazil, the plane maker Airbus has appealed for patience in… 15/06/2009
Rescue teams recover more bodies from Air France crashThe French and Brazilian navy continue to recover the victims from the Air France plane which crashed in the Atlantic last week. Officials say the remains… 10/06/2009
More bodies and plane tail found from tragic Air France flightPart of the tail of the Air France flight 447 has been recovered from the Atlantic Ocean, eight days after the plane disappeared from radar screens. It is… 09/06/2009
Brazilian Army recovers more bodies from crashed Air France airbusThe Brazilian army says it has recovered three more bodies from the Air France airbus crash, and that a number of other bodies have been seen, but only bad… 07/06/2009
Two bodies recovered from doomed jetA huge air search in the Atlantic is continuing after two bodies from the crashed Air France flight 447 were found yesterday. The remains are thought to be… 07/06/2009
Bodies found from crashed Air France jetBrazil’s air force claims to have found bodies and wreckage from the doomed Air France plane that disappeared over the Atlantic on Monday. A massive… 06/06/2009
Air speed seen as factor in Air France crashAs the search continues for wreckage of the Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic continues, experts are increasingly looking at speed as a factor… 05/06/2009
Debris found in ocean does not belong to doomed Air France flightMystery continues to surround the disappearance of the Air France jet which plunged into the Atlantic on Monday killing all 228 people on board. Brazilian… 05/06/2009
Air crash victims’ families threaten Air France with lawsuitAs the search for clues to what caused the disappearance of Air France flight 447 with 228 people on board continues – relatives of the missing passengers say… 04/06/2009
France laments for the lost of flight 447Relatives, friends and colleagues of those who were on the stricken Air France flight earlier this week, have been to a remembrance service at Notre Dame… 03/06/2009
Officials warn flight af447 crash may stay a mysteryIn the waters around Fernando de Noronha, off Brazil’s northern coast, a grim task has begun in earnest. Search teams are attempting to retrieve wreckage… 03/06/2009
Flight 447 relatives await informationThe latest guests at a hotel near Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris are not there for any kind of holiday. It has been set aside for the families of the… 02/06/2009
Missing Air France plane probably crashed into AtlanticIt now seems almost certain an Air France passenger jet that went missing between Rio de Janeiro and Paris has crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. The Airbus… 01/06/2009
Missing Air France plane thought to have crashedIt is now believed that an Air France passenger plane that disappeared over the Atlantic overnight on its way from Rio to Paris crashed into the ocean… 01/06/2009
French crisis support for passengers’ familiesRelatives of those on board the missing Air France Airbus are being cared for in a special area of Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. Loved ones have been… 01/06/2009
Investigators focus on A330’s distress messagesIf the missing Air France passengers and crew are confirmed dead – as looks increasingly likely – it would be the worst accident involving the Airbus A-330… 01/06/2009
Air France jet vanishes – 228 on board missingAn Air France passenger jet has gone missing on a flight from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to Paris. French airport officials say they have no hope for any… 01/06/2009
New Alitalia rises into uncertain skiesAlitalia has been reborn by the Rome government shifting its debts and unprofitable parts of the company onto the Italian taxpayers’ shoulders and merging it… 13/01/2009
Alitalia relaunch disrupted by protestsThe relaunch of Italy’s ailing airline Alitalia as a smaller, privately-owner carrier has been disrupted by protests. Once a symbol of Italy’s post-war… 13/01/2009
New, privatised Alitalia takes to the skiesA new, privatised Alitalia has taken to the skies today despite threats of disruption by protests on the ground. The former state-owned airline company… 13/01/2009
Air France-KLM takes Alitalia stakeAlitalia’s directors have approved the sale of a 25 percent stake to Air France-KLM for just over 320 million euros. That came one day before the relaunch… 12/01/2009
