French labour unions are threatening an Air France strike on Monday. According to the Europe 1 website, almost all of the Paris-based carrier’s labour unions would be involved in the walkout, which comes in response to new laws that tighten workers’ restrictions on the right to strike. Should the action take place, workers will strike [...]

Paris-based carrier Air France has signed a deal with two Libyan carriers to repair aircraft damaged in recent months. Air France officials said on Wednesday that the firm was working with Libyan Airlines as well as Afriqiyah Airways in the effort of getting their fleets back in the sky following damaged suffered amid the overthrow [...]

Air France has said it should be able to double revenues in the Chinese market in around six years, if it can maintain current growth rates. The optimistic forecast came on Friday via newly appointed chief executive of Air France-KLM, Alexandre de Juniac. The company head said to reporters from a Chinese newspaper that growth [...]

Air France has suspended Chinese maintenance operations on its aircraft. The Paris-based carrier has said that the decision was made after French workers had discovered some 30 screws to be missing from one of its Airbus A340 jets after undergoing maintenance operations by Chinese firm Taeco in mid-November. The news came in Beijing on Thursday [...]

Air France-KLM has vowed to instigate changes to the way in which it operates, as well as introduce a range of cost cutting procedures, as quarterly profits are less than anticipated. The results mean that many are predicting that at the end of the financial year, the airline will have to announce an operating loss. [...]

Air France was forced to cancel flights at the weekend due to industrial action, but fewer that previously projected. The Paris-based airline had originally said it would have to cancel up to 20 per cent of its flights but later reported successful operating 87 per cent of scheduled flights on Saturday and the figure grew [...]

Paris-based carrier Air France has announced an immense order for new aircraft that will be split between US jetmaker Boeing and France’s Airbus. The massive purchase will total nearly €9 billion (£7.5 billion) and includes 25 Airbus A350 aircraft and about 25 Boeing 787 Dreamliners. Air France-KLM, which is Europe’s largest airline, says the move [...]

Gerard Depardieu was escorted off a commercial flight on Thursday. The French actor, who starred in Green Card and Cyrano de Bergerac, was on a CityJet flight bound for Dublin yesterday. He asked flight attendants if he could go to the lavatory, but he was told to stay seated as the plane’s cabin door was [...]

Next month will see fine dining options become available to economy class passengers on Dutch airline KLM. Gourmet cuisine has long been available to premium class passengers, but soon KLM economy class long-haul travellers can select and order one four fine-dining meal choices 48 hours before any flight departing from the carrier’s hub in Amsterdam. [...]

French aviation officials have reported that the pilots in the Air France Rio crash hadn’t received proper training. The accusation comes via the BEA, France’s accident investigation agency, which said that the pilots of the 2009 crash were supposed to have received training on how to deal with repeated stall warnings, which Air France denies. [...]