About Air France

Air France (formally Société Air France, SA ), stylized as AIRFRANCE, is the national airline of France, headquartered in Tremblay-en-France, north of Paris. Air France is a member company of Air France-KLM and a co-founder of the SkyTeam airline alliance .
Air France B777

The company's headquarters are at Charles de Gaulle International Airport near Paris ; this headquarters is now used by Air France - KLM. Between April 2001 and March 2002, the airline carried 43.3 million passengers and had revenues of 12.53 billion euros . Air France's subsidiary, Régional, operates regional jet and turboprop flights within Europe

History

Air France was founded on October 7, 1933, through the merger of Air Orient , Compagnie Générale Aéropostale , Société Générale de Transport Aérien (SGTA, France's first airline, founded as Lignes Aériennes Farman in 1919), Air Union, and CIDNA (Compagnie Internationale de Navigation). The airline had an extensive network throughout Europe and the French colonies in North Africa and Indochina . During World War II , Air France moved its operations to Casablanca , Morocco ; the airline appeared in the famous film Casablanca .

After World War II , the airline was nationalized and Societe Nationale Air France was founded on January 1, 1946. Compagnie Nationale Air France was created by an act of parliament on June 16, 1948. The government held 70% of the new company and as of mid-2002 still held 54% of the airline's shares. On August 4, 1948 , Max Hymans was appointed president of Air France. During his 13 years in office, he implemented a modernization policy based on jet aircraft, especially the Sud Aviation Caravelle and the Boeing 707. In 1949, the company was one of the founders of SITA (Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques). The airline used De Havilland Comets for a short time from 1953, but soon replaced them with Vickers Viscounts . In 1959 the airline began extensive use of the elegant twin-engined Sud Aviation Caravelle. It continued to use Boeing aircraft thereafter , but like many other European airlines it became committed to Airbus aircraft from 1974.

In 1976 , the airline began operating the supersonic Concorde SST on the Paris-Charles de Gaulle route to New York as well as some other routes. The flight time from New York to Paris on this type of aircraft is 3 hours and 20 minutes, twice the speed of sound.
Picture of the Concorde Air France

In 1986, the government relaxed its policy of dividing traffic rights for scheduled services between Air France, Air Inter and UTA, with no overlap in routes between them. This decision opened up some of Air France's most profitable routes, which it had enjoyed a government-sanctioned monopoly on since 1963 and which had been within its monopoly sphere of influence, to rival airlines, particularly UTA. The changes allowed UTA to launch scheduled services to new destinations within Air France's territory, competing with that airline.

The Paris - San Francisco route became the first route that UTA served in competition with Air France's direct service from Paris. Air France responded by expanding some of its direct Paris - Los Angeles services to Papeete , Tahiti , in competition with UTA. UTA's ability to secure traffic rights outside its traditional territory in competition with Air France was the result of a government campaign to help it grow faster, more dynamically, and more profitably.

About Airbus

Airbus SE is a European Aerospace conglomerate. The company's core business is the design and manufacture of civil aircraft, although Airbus also has separate divisions for Defence & Space and Helicopters. Airbus has long been the world's leading helicopter manufacturer and in 2019 became the world's largest manufacturer of passenger aircraft.
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Airbus originated from Airbus Industrie GIE , a consortium of European aerospace companies formed in 1970 to produce wide-body aircraft to compete with American-built aircraft. In 2000, the consortium's parent companies, France's Aérospatiale -Matra, Germany's DASA, and Spain's EADS CASA, merged to form the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company ( EADS ) , which subsequently acquired Airbus Industrie. EADS changed its name to Airbus SE in 2015. Reflecting its multinational roots, the company operates offices and assembly lines in France , Germany , Spain , and the United Kingdom , with recent additions in Canada , Malaysia , the United States , Morocco , and India

History

Airbus SAS (Société par actions simplifiée) is an aircraft manufacturing company and a subsidiary of Airbus [(formerly known as EADS (The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company)] - a European aerospace company. Headquartered in Blagnac, a suburb of the French city of Toulouse. The company produces about half of the world's jetliners and has significant operations across Europe.

Airbus began as a consortium of aerospace manufacturers, Airbus Industrie. The European Union's defense and aerospace companies in 1999 and 2000 allowed the creation of a simplified holding company in 2006, owned by EADS (80%) and BAE Systems (20%). Following the expansion of the business, BAE (British Aerospace) sold its shares to EADS on October 13, 2006.