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. [...]

French investigators will unveil fresh findings that reveal the exact circumstances of 2009’s deadly Air France jet crash over the Atlantic. France’s aviation authority BEA told of how a third formal report from the investigation it is running will be made available. This report is going to present the exact circumstances that played a part [...]

Unions representing Air France cabin crew have called for employees to strike during the country’s peak holiday period. The four days of planned action, set to start at the end of the month, could cause chaos as holidaymakers either set off or return from their annual breaks. The French carrier is facing increasing pressure from [...]

French authorities will utilise a Brazilian DNA database to aid with the identification of recently recovered bodies from the wreckage of Air France flight 447. The news came on Wednesday from the affected families’ spokesman Nelson Marinho, whose son was among the 228 people that perished in the Atlantic went the flight went down in [...]

Air France’s plans to initiate lower-cost services to domestic destinations will begin with routes to Toulouse, Marseille and Nice. The move will also make Marseille the company’s first regional budget centre, which it hopes to have up and running by mid-autumn. SNPL, Air France’s largest pilots’ union, is set to vote on the matter on [...]

Salvage efforts to retrieve bodies and evidence from the 2009 Air France crash wreckage have ended. According to Philippe Vinogradoff, a representative of the victims’ families, a total of 104 bodies were recovered from the floor of the Atlantic where the ill-fated flight had gone down in bad weather two years ago. They are currently [...]

Air France and Air Seychelles have extended a 14-year partnership. The new agreement goes into effect today and will provide a boost for the development of tourism in the Seychelles. The contract was finalised yesterday (May 31) at Seychelles International Airport, where both Dominique Patry, Air France’s VP for international affairs and alliances, as well [...]

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 [...]

US-based carrier United Airlines has apologised for accidentally reintroducing flight numbers that had been retired following the 9/11 attacks. The airline recently began booking passengers on flight numbers UA93 and UA175, the same two flights ill fated that were highjacked on September 11th, 2001. Following the ordeal, United retired the two flight identifiers until now [...]

The French authorities have entered a controversial stage of the mission to recover the wreckage of an Air France passenger jet which ditched into the Atlantic nearly two years ago. Investigators have managed to bring two bodies to the surface using highly specialised robotic submarines. However, the families of the victims are split over whether [...]