The company

Air France is a leading global player in its three main areas of activity: passenger transport, cargo transport and aircraft maintenance. Air France is a founding member of the SkyTeam global alliance, alongside Korean Air, Aeromexico and Delta. With the North American airline, Air France has also set up a joint venture dedicated to the joint operation of several hundred transatlantic flights every day.

Founded in 1933, Air France is the number one French airline and, together with KLM, one of the world's largest air carriers by revenue and passengers transported. It is active in passenger air traffic - its core business -, cargo traffic and aviation maintenance and servicing. In 2019, the Air France-KLM group posted overall turnover of 27;é billion euros, of which 86% was for the network’s passenger operations, 6% for Transavia and 8% for maintenance. Air France governance is structured around two bodies, the Board of Directors comprising 18 directors on one side and the Executive Committee comprising 12 operational managers of the company and its subsidiaries.

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Air France has fundamental assets in a strongly competitive context: the powerful hub of Paris-Charles de Gaulle, a balanced network, an optimized fleet, member of SkyTeam, a global alliance with 19 member airlines, a trans-atlantique joint venture agreement with Delta, an innovative product offer, putting the customer at the heart of its strategy, a strict cost control strategy

Passenger

As the airline's main activity in terms of revenue, passenger traffic is Air France's core business. It draws on a balanced and dense network structured around its Paris-Charles de Gaulle hub and platforms in Paris-Orly and Lyon-Saint-Exupéry. Thanks to its membership of the SkyTeam global Alliance and the transatlantic joint venture set up with its partners Delta and Alitalia, Air France is significantly enriching its global network to serve its passengers.

Renowned the world over for the quality of its offering, the structure and density of its network and its efforts in digital innovation and customer service, Air France is regularly recognised with awards in a variety of fields and in all regions of the world. A global alliance of 19 airlines In 2000, Air France, Aeromexico, Delta and Korean Air created the SkyTeam alliance, which now has 19 members. As the world's second-largest airline alliance, SkyTeam enables its member airlines, including Air France, to develop and supplement their respective offerings with flights operated by their partners.