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Air France Resumes Flights to Greece from Regional Airports

2020-06-13 by Delia Gavrilescu

#Franceisintheair

Air France has announced the resumption of service to Athens and Heraklion in Greece from regional airports in France.

Tags: Air France, AirFrance-KLM, COVID-19 safety, Crete flights, france, Greece 2020, Greece flights, Greece tourism, Greece vacation, Heraklion flights, pandemic

The U.S. Covid-19 Travel Ban Signals a Disaster of a New Order

2020-03-12 by Phil Butler

Trump Coronavirus Task Force

Stock markets are in freefall over the COVID-19 pandemic and Europe is in a panic over Trump’s travel ban. But this is only the beginning.

Tags: aeroflot, Air France, airlines, CAC, Coronavirus 2019, COVID-19, DAX, Delta, DOW, Dow market, economy, Europe flights, Europe travel, Italy, Italy coronavirus, Italy lockdown, Italy outbreak, KLM, President Trump, Russia travelers, Spain, Spain coronavirus, travel ban, Trump travel ban, Wall Street, WHO

Air France gives in to pilots

2014-09-25 by Delia Gavrilescu

Courtesy Air France Corporate

Pilots striking against Air France over a proposed expansion of the airline via subsidiary Transavia have apparently won. Air France and KLM have now announced their intention of dropping the Transavia Europe operation.

Tags: Air France, airline strike, Europe airlines, KLM, Transavia Europe

Air France strike grounds half of flights

2014-09-15 by Rhett Butler

Waiting - Courtesy Air France Facebook

Air France has said more than half the airline’s flights will have to be grounded on account of a week-long pilot’s strike. The airline’s plans to start its own low cost carrier are at the center of the dispute that had crippled the airline this morning.

Tags: Air France, airline strikes, Europe airlines, KLM, Transavia

Ryanair Issues Ice Bucket Challenge to Industry

2014-08-23 by Phil Butler

Courtesy Ryanair Corporate

Ryanair, Europe’s leading budget airline, called out CEOs of IAG (Willie Walsh), Air France (Alexandre de Juniac), and Lufthansa (Carsten Spohr) to take the ice bucket challenge. Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary literally overdid the ice bucket event in Dublin on Thursday, much to the delight of 200 employees of his airline.

Tags: Air France, Denis O'Leary, IAG, Lufthansa, Ryanai

Air France-KLM Changes Leadership

2013-03-26 by Phil Butler

ALEXANDRE DE JUNIAC

Air France-KLM is to have new leadership according to news from the company. Current CEO Jean-Cyril Spinetta, along with Vice Chairman Leo van Wijk step down as of July 1st of this year. , we had a twofold objective,” the pair declared in a joint statement.

Tags: Air France, airline news, airlines, Alexandre de Juniac, France businesses, France news, Jean-Cyril Spinetta, KLM, Leo van Wijk

Opodo Deal Gets EU Thumbs Up

2011-05-31 by Phil Butler

Opodo UK landing

Private equity firm Permira, and France’s Axa, have received the “go” from EU regulators in their bid to buy online travel entity Opodo. The two investors intent to merge the Spanish Opodo company with Go Voyages and eDreams will create one of the digital world’s biggest online booking agencies.

Tags: Air France, Alitalia, Amadeus, Axa, EasyJet, eDreams, EU, EU Travel, EU travel commission, Europe travel, Expedia, Go Voyages, online companies, online travel, Opodo, OTA, Permira, regulators, Ryanair, travel commission, travel deals




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