Air France

Air France and aircraft maker Airbus go on trial in Paris today on charges of involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 crash of a flight from Brazil, killing all 228 people aboard.

The case focuses on alleged insufficient pilot training and a defective speed monitoring probe, which was quickly replaced on planes worldwide in the months after the accident.

Air France announced on Friday it was accelerating moves to resume flights over the summer holiday period.
It said several routes would resume between Paris and the French regions, as well as inter-regional routes, particularly to and from Corsica.

France's national carrier will be resuming flights between Paris and Athens as travel restrictions are gradually lifted across the European Union, it was reported on Thursday.

The imposition of social-distancing measures on commercial flights would mean an end to "cheap travel", according to IATA director general Alexandre de Juniac.

About 10 year-old child was found dead at a Paris airport in the landing gear of an Air France plane. The plane arrived from the city of Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire, a source close to the investigation said.

Air France's Boeing 777 took off from Abidjan on Tuesday night and landed at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport early in the morning.

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France introduces an eco tax on air flights. Thus, the government of President Emmanuel Makron fulfills the promise to take measures to combat pollution and climate change.

The fee will be phased in for all airplanes departing from France.

The Air France KLM Group will once again be supporting the Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum in Athens on May 28-29, where it will be promoting its corporate program BlueBiz on the exhibition floor.

Air France, which introduced daily flights on the route just a month ago, has now decided to extend the seasonal service to year-round in its 2019/2020 schedule.

Greek airline Sky Express said on Tuesday it had signed an agreement with Air France KLM to cooperate on flights connecting Paris and Amsterdam with the Greek islands.

Tourism accounts for about a quarter of economic output in Greece, which saw a record number of about 33 million visitors last year.