The Air France KLM Group’s schedule for summer 2010 remains practically unchanged compared with 2009 showing slight growth for the long-haul network with a reduction for the medium haul network.
New destinations will be enhancing the Group’s network: Denpasar (Bali) and Aruba for KLM, Abu Dhabi and Bata for Air France as well as Bari in code-share with Alitalia.
Today’s common way of making things easier, on-line check-in, has got its even more dynamic successor – mobile check-in. Sound names like KLM or Air France belong among those who started working on mobile check-in project first, closely followed by German airlines Lufthansa.
When can you use mobile check-in?
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KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will be the first airline in the world to make a demonstration flight on bio-kerosene with a select group of passengers. This will also be the first ever flight in Europe on bio-kerosene. On November 23, 2009, KLM will operate a flight using Boeing 747 equipment. One of the aircraft engines will be running on a fuel mixture made up of 50% sustainable bio-fuel and 50% traditional kerosene.
Along with Air France, KLM has for many years led the airline industry in the field of sustainable development. For example, Air France-KLM this year topped the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the fifth consecutive time. The Dutch wing of the Worldwide Fund for Nature (Wereld Natuurfonds – WNF) also voted KLM its Business Partner of the year for 2009.
Effective with tickets issued November 1, 2009, Air France will introduce a revised baggage policy for customers traveling in Economy Class between the US and Europe including Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. Passengers will be able to check one bag, weighing up to 50 pounds (23 kilos), free of charge.
If passengers would like to check a second bag, with the same maximum weight allowance, they may do so for a fee of $50 for all flights departing from the US or €50 for all flights departing from Europe. Additionally, the fee for checked bags weighing between 50 and 70 pounds (23 to 32 kilos) will increase from 50 dollars or Euros to 100 dollars or Euros. Beyond the second checked bag, additional bags of the same maximum weight will be charged 200 dollars or Euros.
Air France won the First Prize for Design Strategy 2009 for its new logo unveiled in February 2009, designed by the Brandimage agency.
The new logo, which is in now just one word, in an elegant style and with a lighter typography, aims to express what Air France represents today, i.e. an airline which is proud of its national identity and its values, but which has also become a global brand through the creation of the Air France-KLM Group, with more than half of its customers living outside France. More logos and pictures can be found at airfrance.com.
In April 2009, Air France started selling the first tickets in the Premium Voyageur cabin on daily flights from Paris to New York (first flight on October 25) and Paris – Tokyo (first flight on November 16).
Air France customers can now book seats in the Premium Voyageur cabin on flights to Beirut and Singapore for travel as from December 28, 2009 and to Beijing and Hong Kong as from January 18, 2010.
AIR FRANCE KLM today informed the Czech Ministry of Finance of its decision to withdraw from the tender process for the privatization of Ceske aerolinie a.s. (CSA). The current economic environment has significantly impacted the airline business. Under such circumstances, AIR FRANCE KLM believes that CSA might focus on developing and implementing a stand-alone recovery plan aimed at restoring its profitability.
In this context AIR FRANCE KLM wishes to further strengthen the existing partnership between the two groups and to continue to explore with CSA any new areas of cooperation that could be of mutual benefit to each company.
Following the interline agreement signed on February 4, Air France, KLM and WestJet announced that, the 2 European companies will offer interline itineraries that connect their passengers into WestJet’s Canadian network. Initially, connections will be made through the gateways of Calgary and Vancouver, with the option to continue on to Vancouver, Calgary or Edmonton.
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Air France has signed a code-share agreement with the Swiss airline Baboo, to enable its customers to travel as from July 1, 2009 to 5 new destinations in France with an AF flight number on departure from Geneva.
Starting on July 1, 2009, Geneva is directly linked to:
Biarritz 5 times a week,
Bordeaux 6 times a week,
Nice 12 times a week,
Saint Tropez 3 times a week,
Toulouse 6 times a week.
Flights to Bordeaux, Nice, Saint Tropez and Toulouse will be operated by Baboo with aircraft such as the Embraer E190 with 100 seats and the Bombardier Dash Q 400 with 74 seats. To Biarritz, the 3 weekly services by Baboo, which will have Air France flight numbers, will be in addition to Air France’s 2 weekly flights operated by Régional with Embraer RJ145 aircraft with 50 seats.
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Prague Airport has introduced a new service – a system that enables airlines’ passengers to check in using their mobile phones or PDA devices. The first airline to have extended its service portfolio with the mobile check-in service has been the AIR FRANCE KLM airline group.
Passengers travelling to Amsterdam are able to board with a boarding pass on a phone display. Thus the only paper document required for boarding an aircraft remains passenger’s ID card. Another line operated by the group where the new service will be introduced is Air France’s line to Paris.
How does the mobile check-in work?
