Air France represents what an airline should be like

[dicko]

Since you sound so tough, Keyboard Cowboy, why don't you visit the graves of the 250,000 Frenchmen that lost their lives during the 40 days of the Blitz and tell them what a bunch of useless cowards they are. It is like disrespecting our boys in Nam who had to put up with ill leadership and politics.

George Orwell made a great point: Ignorance is strength. You just proved it!

Much like America, the French have four levels of terrorist threat warnings.

The French system is outlined below:

1. Run
2. Hide
3. Surrender
4. Collaborate.


:bomb:

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Re: Air France - What an airline should look like

Sure about that?!?



http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-07/air-france-flyers-told-to-take-own-trash-in-bid-to-outdo-ryanair.html

Air France Asks Flyers to Take Out Trash in Ryanair Battle

Air France will ask passengers to clear their seats and take their trash with them when leaving the plane as the carrier seeks to cut costs and stem the advance of EasyJet Plc (EZJ) and Ryanair Holdings Plc (RYA) in its home market.

Paris-based Air France is working on the plan after cabin crew refused to assume cleaning duties at a low-cost operation it’s introducing in a push to claw back traffic at provincial airports, according to a union official involved in the talks.

Chief Executive Officer Pierre-Henri Gourgeon wants to eliminate ground-based cleaners to keep jets flying longer, emulating discount rivals and rendering hitherto-unprofitable regional hubs viable. Still, union wrangles have already forced one of four planned bases to be abandoned, even as EasyJet adds French routes and Spain’s Vueling Airlines SA (VLG) begins flights from Toulouse, one of the remaining locations.

Ryanair, the region’s No. 1 discount carrier, isn’t worried about Gourgeon’s plan and regards Air France’s strategy as “hopeless,” Chief Executive Officer Michael O’Leary said in an interview. “No flag-carrier in the history of aviation has ever succeeded in rolling out a real low-fares airline.”

Air France will only ask passengers to clean up the free newspapers they are offered at the start of the flight, spokesman Jean-Charles Trehan said. Further cleaning duties will be carried out by ground staff who re-stock the planes, he said.

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