Air France - KLM News

There is some bad economic news related to Montreal's airline industry. Delta airlines and Air France-KLM are both closing their call centres in the city by next August.

Undated file photo of an Airbus A330-200. Photograph by: Handout, Reuters/Air France The local call centres of airlines Air-France KLM and Delta Air Lines will be closed next August, terminating 280 jobs.

Air France had a short stay at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. It launched flights to Paris in May 2001, but shut down eight months later.

An airliner using a 50 percent biofuel mix in one engine has successfully completed a demonstration flight in the Netherlands.

The first Air France A380 superjumbo took off from Paris on Friday, bound for New York with 380 passengers who had bid a total $450,000 in a charity auction organized by the airline.

In this Nov. 17, 2009 photo, A "sold" sign is seen outside a home in Los Angeles.

An airliner using a 50 percent biofuel mix in one engine has successfully completed a demonstration flight in the Netherlands.

Claiming that the downturn "has led to behavioral changes among our customers which are likely to persist beyond the recovery," Air France KLM yesterday proposed an enlarged voluntary redundancy program affecting 1,700 jobs next year as it announced a 147 million loss in its fiscal second quarter ended Sept.

Nov 19th 2009 at 3:01PM Air-France is planning its first cross-Atlantic fligh t with its shiny new Airbus A380 jumbo jet but not all is rosy for Europe's largest airline.

Air France-KLM has announced plans to cut 1,700 jobs by asking workers to take voluntary redundancy.

An Air France A380 superjumbo , the world's largest civilian airliner, is to set off on Friday on the first Air France flight across the Atlantic bound for New York with 538 passengers aboard.

"The situation remains uncertain, and competition is fierce, but we want to play our trump cards," -- Air France CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon.

Air France-KLM, Europe's largest airline, late Wednesday said it swung to a wider-than-expected second-quarter loss as it continued to struggle with lower demand for air travel, particularly in business class, and the burden of its fuel hedges.

Air France-KLM Chief Executive Officer Pierre-Henri Gourgeon addresses reporters during a press conference held in Paris yesterday.

So after 18 months of circling, it finally landed: British Airways announced its highly anticipated merger with Iberia late Thursday, coupling BA's access to the U.S. with the Spanish carrier's routes to Latin America in one of the biggest deals in aviation history.

LONDON: It still refers to itself as "the world's favourite airline" but there is little grandeur about British Airways these days as the once-proud, now-struggling airline pursues a merger with Iberia.

Happy to finally receive the aircraft: Having decided to buy the A380 already in 1996, Air France now has received its first of the type.

A merger between British Airways and Iberia moved closer Nov. 12 as the boards of the two carriers held separate board meetings to finalize details of the planned $7 billion deal.

Passenger traffic with Europe's leading airline group, Air France-KLM, fell for the 10th straight month with a 4.1 percent drop in October, the Paris-based company announced Monday in its monthly traffic statistics.

Alitalia reported a 15 million operating profit in the third quarter, its first since the mid-January re-launch under new ownership with backing from Air France KLM.