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Air France

Air France (French pronunciation: [ɛːʁ fʁɑ̃s]; formally Société Air France, S.A.), stylised as AIRFRANCE, is the flag carrier of France headquartered in Tremblay-en-France. It is a subsidiary of the Air France–KLM Group and a founding member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance. As of 2013, Air France serves 29 destinations in France and operates worldwide scheduled passenger and cargo services to 201 destinations in 78 countries (93 including overseas departments and territories of France) and also carried 46,803,000 passengers in 2019. The airline's global hub is at Charles de Gaulle Airport with Orly Airport as the primary domestic hub. Air France's corporate headquarters, previously in Montparnasse, Paris,[9] are located at the Roissypôle complex on the grounds of Charles de Gaulle Airport, north of Paris.[10]

This article is about the French airline. For the band, see Air France (band).

IATA

8 February 1919 (1919-02-08)
(as Société Générale des Transports Aériens)

30 August 1933 (1933-08-30)
(as Air France)

243

€16.3 billion (2022)[7]

€483 million (2022)[7]

38,000[8]

Air France was formed on 30 August 1933[11] from a merger of Air Orient, Air Union, Compagnie Générale Aéropostale, Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aérienne (CIDNA), and Société Générale de Transport Aérien (SGTA). During the Cold War, from 1950 until 1990, it was one of the three main Allied scheduled airlines operating in Germany at West Berlin's Tempelhof and Tegel airports. In 1990, it acquired the operations of French domestic carrier Air Inter and international rival UTA – Union de Transports Aériens. It served as France's primary national flag carrier for seven decades until its merger with KLM in 2003.


In 2018, Air France and its regional subsidiary Hop carried 51.4 million passengers.[12] Air France operates a mixed fleet of Airbus and Boeing widebody jets on long-haul routes, and uses Airbus A320 family aircraft on short-haul routes. Air France introduced the A380 on 20 November 2009 with service to New York City's JFK Airport from Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport. Air France Hop (formerly HOP!) operates the majority of its regional domestic and European scheduled services with a fleet of regional jet aircraft.[13]

Air France Sud Aviation Caravelle in the oldest Livery

Air France Sud Aviation Caravelle in the oldest Livery

Air France Airbus A310 in the 1976 Livery

Air France Airbus A310 in the 1976 Livery

Air France Boeing 777 in the 2009 Livery

Air France Boeing 777 in the 2009 Livery

Air France Boeing 787 in the 2017 revised livery

Air France Boeing 787 in the 2017 revised livery

Air France Airbus A350 in the 2019 revised livery

Air France Airbus A350 in the 2019 revised livery

Air France Airbus A220 in the 2021 revised livery

Air France Airbus A220 in the 2021 revised livery

: Air France's intercontinental and biggest hub, with 335 daily departures. It is also a hub for Air France's subsidiary Air France HOP.

Charles de Gaulle Airport

: Air France's second biggest base, it is also the principal hub of Air France's subsidiary Transavia France.

Orly Airport

Air France is the official airline of the .[156]

Cannes Film Festival

Air France "flight 273" is the plane that "Chat Noir" in " 1412" episode 18: Golden Eye (Part 2): Kid vs Chat Noir Showdown, uses to escape.[157]

Magic Kaito

Dirigisme

List of airlines of France

List of airports in France

List of companies of France

Transport in France

Air transport in France

Rocher, Alexis (October 2023). "Les 90 ans d'Air France: Première partie 1933–1939" [90 Years of Air France: Part 1 1933–1939]. Le Fana de l'Aviation (in French) (647): 48–59.  0757-4169.

ISSN

Air France fatal accident list – in English and French

Financial Times, 17 October 2007 – Air France and Delta target London

Archived 16 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine

Airwise, 17 October 2007 – Air France And Delta Set Transatlantic Venture

FT.com/Business Life, The Monday Interview, 30 September 2007 – Pilot who found the right trajectory

The Seattle Times, Business & Technology, 25 May 2007 – Air France-KLM splits order for jets

ASIATravelTips.com, 18 June 2001 – Air France confirms major A380 order

Archived 29 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine

M.R. Golder, The Changing Nature of French Dirigisme – A Case Study of Air France, St. Edmunds Hall, Oxford. Thesis submitted at Trinity College, 1997

The New York Times, 31 August 1994, Air France's New Adviser

Record of Air France accidents/incidents at the ASN Aviation Safety Database

Official website

pp. 866–868 on massive route expansion of Air France including trans-Atlantic route

"Wings Over Four Continents" Popular Mechanics, December 1935