Carrier confirms it would buy 25 of the jets, as it signs a memorandum of understanding with Rolls-Royce to buy its engines to power the aircrafts

PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus sealed a long-awaited order for 25 A350-900 aircraft from Air France-KLM worth $7.2 billion at list prices after Rolls-Royce and the airline reached a deal over engine maintenance.

PARIS, June 19 (Reuters) - Airbus sealed a long-awaited order for 25 A350-900 aircraft from Air France-KLM worth $7.2 billion at list prices after Rolls-Royce and the airline reached a deal over engine maintenance.

PARIS, June 19 (Reuters) - Airbus won an order for 25 A350-900 aircraft from Franco-Dutch carrier Air France-KLM worth $7.5 billion at list prices, the planemaker said at the Paris Airshow on Wednesday.

Air Francelooks poised to sign a long-awaited $7 billion deal to buy 25 AirbusA350 jets after talks narrowly avoided collapse, industry sources said on Tuesday.

PARIS, June 18 (Reuters) - Air France looks poised to sign a long-awaited $7 billion deal to buy 25 Airbus A350 jets after talks narrowly avoided collapse, industry sources said on Tuesday.

PARIS, June 18 (Reuters) - Air France looks poised to sign a long-awaited $7 billion deal to buy 25 Airbus A350 jets after talks narrowly avoided collapse, industry sources said on Tuesday.

France has a culture of political protest that is, to say the least, robust.  I'm in town to report on the Paris Air Show, and walking around town this weekend, I came across three different demonstrations taking on a variety of causes. There wa

TOULOUSE, France, June 14 (Reuters) - After the Dreamliner, the Hushliner?

TOULOUSE, France, June 14 (Reuters) - After the Dreamliner, the Hushliner?

PARIS -- After two days of air traffic controller strikes, French rail workers walked off the job Thursday to protest a reorganization of the national...

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- More than a thousand flights flying in and out of France were cancelled on Wednesday as a strike by French air controllers continued for a second day. France's civil aviation authority (DGAC) asked airlines to cancel 25% of al

One look at the airplane traffic map below should be enough to convey which socialist European country has a just started a 3-day air traffic controller strike. Sure enough, as a result of the French ATC union demands for 'fairness', i.e., an elimin

Air traffic controllers in France on Tuesday began a three-day strike to protest European Union plans to accelerate the integration of the region’s fragmented air space.    

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- France's civil aviation authority (DGAC) said over the weekend that several air-transport unions are planning to strike from Tuesday June 11 to Thursday June 13, in protests against changes to the Single Sky regulations initia

PARIS, June 9 (Reuters) - French air-transport unions plan to strike from Tuesday to Thursday and airlines should reduce flights to the major airports, France's civil aviation authority (DGAC) said.

Airlines will charge you for pretty much anything these days. In an effort to find even more revenue, some European full-service carriers are taking fine dining to economy class. From Bloomberg: Air France (AF) is tempting economy-class custome

THE diplomatic air is becoming increasingly thick in the run-up to an international conference on Syria, starting perhaps as soon as June 15th but more likely in July, which few people think likely to lead to an early peace. Britain and France were l

The results saw the European aviation sector make gains as well – Lufthansa added 3.6% to €16.07 and Air France-KLM rose 4% to €7.71

PARIS, May 14 (Reuters) - Franco-Dutch airline Air France-KLM said on Tuesday that passenger traffic rose 2.3 percent in April, lifted by new routes to the Americas.

European airline group reiterates goals of cutting costs and debt as disappointing revenue performance outweighs cuts in unit cost and net debt

Air France-KLM said its net loss widened significantly in the first quarter, but said it is continuing its efforts to cut unit costs and shrink its debt.

* Q1 operating loss 530 mln euros vs proforma 611 mln loss

With growth in China slowing, Air France is looking for help in opening Australian routes.

PARIS, April 11 (Reuters) - Air France-KLM said it is finalising talks with planemaker Airbus about postponing deliveries of the next A380s it has on order by several months as it tries to rein in...

PARIS, April 11 (Reuters) - Air France-KLM said it is finalising talks with planemaker Airbus about postponing deliveries of the next A380s it has on order by several months as it tries to rein in spending and reduce debt.

PARIS, April 11 (Reuters) - Air France-KLM said it is finalising talks with planemaker Airbus about postponing deliveries of the next A380s it has on order by several months as it tries to rein in spending and reduce debt.

UK airline prepares for talks on joint venture that could also involve Alitalia in move to increase its flights to Asia, the Middle East and Africa

Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesJapan's Saitama Seibu Lions manager Hisanobu Watanabe (C) is tossed into the air after their victory over Taiwan's Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions in the Asia Series 2008 baseball final game in Tokyo on November 16, 2008

Jean-Cyril Spinetta’s second period as chairman and chief executive has been far more challenging than when he served in these roles between 2004 and 2008

Head of Franco-Dutch group says it would be suicide for European airlines if restrictions on Gulf carriers flying into European airports were removed

"So this one time, I was tanning on the beach when a Concorde flew, like, right over me." In 1989, an Air France Concorde made a very special flight to the Caribbean island of St. Maarten/St. Martin. It would be the only time Concorde landed at Princ

Franco-Dutch airline Air France-KLM said it is shuffling its top executives as part of a broad restructuring to reduce costs and eliminate overlaps that still exist following the merger of Air France and KLM in 2004.

* Alexandre de Juniac to become new CEO of Air France-KLM

Ugh, this guy is gonna ruin wearing Air France T-shirts and black leather jackets with epaulets for everybody: Pilots on a U.S. Airways flight were pretty sure a French man wearing the aforementioned ensemble wasn’t a pilot when he plunked down

A man was arrested at Philadelphia International Airport Wednesday evening after he allegedly impersonated a pilot and was found in the cockpit of a passenger jet. Philippe Jernnard, 61, of La Rochelle, France, was a ticketed passenger on the Air Fra

Alexandre de Juniac is expected to be promoted to chief executive as reward for his handling of a painful restructuring at the airline’s French arm

GS Yuasa Corp , the Japanese maker of lithium-ion battery cells used in Boeing Co's787 Dreamliner, said it is working closely with the U.S. company, lead battery contractor Thales SAof France and regulators to get the 787 back into the air.

Franco-Dutch carrier says it still aims to cut debt this year despite uncertainty about its 2013 earnings because of market volatility in Europe

But the airline's net loss widened on one-time restructuring measures.

Air France-KLM sees losses widen in 2012 as fuel costs rise sharply, but revenues rise as its restructuring programme takes effect.

Air France-KLM said that 2013 will be a crucial year as it struggles to get back to profitability after its net loss widened by 47% in 2012.

* Says to reduce unit costs, net debt this year (Adds CFO/CEO comments, Lufthansa background, detail)

India expects to sign a fighter-jet deal with France's Dassault Aviation by the middle of the fiscal year starting April 1, the chief of the air force said.

BANGALORE, Feb 7 (Reuters) - India's agreement to buy 126Rafale fighter jets from France's Dassault Aviation isof the "highest priority" in India's budget for the upcomingfinancial year that begins in April, Air Chief Marshal N.A.K.Browne said on Thu

In the last few days, several nations have joined the large coalition supporting France in the Mali Air War with an overall Order of Battle currently including assets from some African air forces as well. Dealing with the French, the air co

DIABALY, Mali, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Residents of Diabalyfeared for their lives when French air strikes pounded theirsmall town in central Mali, shaking their homes and turning thepick-up trucks of Islamist fighters into burning, twisted metal.

Washington’s reluctance to provide air tankers is being seen in France as a sign of US caution about French operations in Mali

NOUAKCHOTT, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Veteran jihadist MokhtarBelmokhtar has claimed responsibility in the name of al Qaedafor the mass hostage-taking in Algeria and called on France tohalt air strikes in Mali, Mauritanian news website Sahara Mediasaid on S