Good evening from Birmingham Airport where I'm sitting in the public terminal area as I prepare to execute my end of year qualification run: As you look at this map, you'll notice there's a fair bit of convoluted routing... and that's just in New York and Newark. The mess that is Europe will provide some surprises (as a train will feature heavily in this trip … [Read more...]
Air France prepares for big layoffs and fleet cuts
Air France-KLM Group seems to be suffering still, with further deeper cuts to be made, with a further 2,800 jobs on the line as the airline tries to cut costs. Air France will try and make these cuts via voluntary redundancy. Already, the airline has is to cut 5,100 staff from its global 69,000 workforce, but the group is missing the savings required. For those remaining in … [Read more...]
CityJet to pull London City – Edinburgh Route
It seems that CityJet is giving up a key route between London City Airport and Edinburgh, with the suspension of the route after the 26th October CityJet operates between the two cities 4 times a weekday, with fierce competition from British Airways who operate 8 return flights a weekday. It seems this competition was enough to make CityJet reconsider its options. Existing … [Read more...]
Air France plans A380 service increase to Shanghai
Air France is toying with the edges of it deployments, by adding an extra A380 flight between Paris CDG and Shanghai Pudong. The combined timetable looks like this, featuring a mixture of Airbus A380, Boeing 777-300ER and Boeing 777-200 aicraft Paris CDG to Shanghai PVG AF112 DEPART CDG 13:30 ARRIVE PVG 07:30+1 Boeing 777-200 AF116 DEPART CDG 23:25 ARRIVE PGG … [Read more...]
Air France trims its Paris to Hong Kong Service for Winter
Air France is reducing it's services to Hong Kong over the winter period - from 14th January 2014 to 29th March 2014. This will reduce the service from 10 rotations weekly to 7 services a week (a daily service) The timetable looks like this: AF188 DEPART CDG 23:20 ARRIVE HKG 18:05+1 AF185 DEPART HKG 23:30 ARRIVE CDG 05:50+1 Booked Equipment: Boeing 777-300ER Operates … [Read more...]
Air France to introduce “Hop!”
It seems airlines are in the mood to set up airlines within airlines, with Air France-KLM group setting up a new subairline called "Hop!" Hop combines the Regional Services offered by Brit Air, Regional and Airlinair under one banner with a jaunty exclamation mark, operating 530 daily flights, serving 104 destinations (32 destinations for Air France) with a fleet of 98 … [Read more...]
Air France goes “Mini” on some routes to combat Low Cost Carriers
The spread of Low Cost Carriers has raised questions for some legacy carriers on how to handle them. Some set up airlines (Lufthansa and Germanwings), some operate an airline within an airline (who remembers Ted by United, Song by Delta) and some do LCC pricing inside the airline to fill extra capacity. This is the line that Air France are taking, with the introduction of … [Read more...]
Safety Video Saturday – Air France
It's Saturday again, so please stow your table, place your seat in the upright position and ensure your seatbelt is fastened as this week, we leave safety in the hands of Air France Another safety video next week! … [Read more...]
AirFrance-KLM and Ethiad annouce codeshare tie up
Codeshares seem to be the heart of the industry these days. And it seems AirFrance-KLM Group and Etihad have major codeshare agreement which will bolster Etihad's presence within mainland Europe and allow Air France-KLM the opportunity to strengthen its market reach in the Subcontinent and Australia. The agreement starts quickly - on 28th October 2012. To start with Air … [Read more...]
Air France to revamp its B777 and A380 fleets
Air France is preparing to refurbish its Boeing 777 and Airbus A380 fleets in a bid to fight back from other carriers it seems. Their entire fleet of Boeing 777's are to be to refurbished where the airline will spend "hundreds of millions of euros" according to Air France's CEO Alexandre de Juniac. The airline is aiming to improve its onboard product and service to make … [Read more...]
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