Air France-KLM Group is Two airlines, three core businesses: passenger transport, cargo transport and engineering, and aircraft maintenance services.
The Group is the world leader in terms of international passenger traffic; and its cargo activity (not including integrators) and is one of the world’s major maintenance service providers.
The Group counts more than 104,600 employees throughout the world.
Passenger transport is the Group’s main business, accounting for 80% of turnover (2007-08 financial year), with 74.8 million passengers carried, a fleet in operation of 607 aircraft, and 258 destinations worldwide.
The Group structure is simple: a holding company with two airline subsidiaries. [1]
Contents
- France: Fuel Prices Ignite Protests Truck drivers in the dispute have been joined by Air France staff, who have blocked access to some terminals at Charles de Gaulle airport. [2]
Criticisms
- IRAN: France Steps Up Its Investments in Iran Air France resumed flights to Tehran this month after a seven-year hiatus. And the carmaker Renault is about to make the first large-scale, long-term direct investment in the country by a French company since the 1979 revolution that toppled the pro-American Shah Reza Pahlavi. [3]
- US: FedEx subpoenaed in US probe of cargo industry The investigation appears to be part of global probe of airlines suspected of fixing cargo prices that began in February, when the European Union’s executive arm and the U.S. Justice Department raided a number of airlines on both sides of the Atlantic. Other carriers have been asked for information. [4]
Brands & Subsidiaries
- Air France, Régional, Brit Air, KLM, KLM cityhopper, Martinair, Transavia Airlines1, CityJet, VLM Airlines