Fly with Air France
September 25, 2008 – 12:47 pm
Air France: Making the Sky the Best Place on Earth
Air France is the airline company of France. Its center is in Paris, France. Main airports of Air France are Orly Airport, Lyon Saint Exupéry Airport and Nice Cote d’Azur Airport. Air France is a member of Sky Team.
The slogan of Air France is “making the sky the best place on earth”. It is one of the leading airline companies of the world. Especially in Europe, Air France has a great marketing part.
Establishment of Air France
Air France was founded in 1933. It was founded after some other French Airline companies. French government always supported Air France. After World War II, Air France controlled French air transportation web. With new associations Air France developed itself day by day. The company opened the first terminal and founded Air France International Society. In 1950s, it became one of the greatest airline companies of the world. Government and state owned Air France. Now the situation is like this: State holds approximately %50 of the company. New routes were added to flight list. Air France began to reach more and more destinations.
In 2003, it was renewal time for Air France. It merged with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and the name Air France KLM was given to the new company. After that the company became more powerful. It became one of the leading figures of airline companies.
Air France has partnership agreement with some airline companies. These are Air India, Aircalin, Air Mauritius, Air Seychelles, Alaska Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Bulgaria Air, CCM Airlines, China Eastern, Croatia Airlines, Finnair, JAL, Iran Air, Jet Airways, LOT Polish Airlines, Luxair, MEA, Qantas, Royal Air Maroc, SWISS, TAM, TAROM and Tunisair.
Air France Fleet
Air France has a growing fleet. Passenger flying fleet is approximately 250 planes. Airbus and Boeing models are used. The models used are Airbus A318, A319, A319LR, A320, A321, A330-200, A340-300, A380 and Boeing 747-400, 777-200ER and 777-300 ER. There are new orders on the way. In addition to these, Air France makes cargo transportation and its cargo fleet is 10 Boeing planes. 6 of them are Boeing 747-400BFC and 4 of them are Boeing 747-400ERF.
Main Destinations of Air France
Air France has flights to 185 different destinations in different continents and countries. There are flight to Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania and South America. The countries list includes Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Madagascar, Tunisia, Mali, Niger, Senegal, China, Japan, South Korea, India, Bangladesh, Singapore, Vietnam, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Syria, Azerbaijan, Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, Canada, Mexico, USA, Haiti, Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Uruguay.
Online Services of Air France
Among online services of Air France there is online booking, check in, schedules, reservations, flight and timetable information and many other ones. In addition to these, the site offers cheap flight to Paris and France. You can also find some vacation packages options on the site. It is a well designed airline site on which you can find anything you are looking for.
Visit the homepage of Air France.