Company Watch - Air France KLM.Sep 24, 2007 Air France Air France in full Compagnie Internationale Air France French passenger and cargo airline with more than 200 destinations in some 80 countries. It introduced supersonic Concorde service in 1976, but financial loss led the company to cease its Concorde says it will begin testing personal smart cards Example of widely used contactless smart cards are Hong Kong's Octopus card, Paris' Calypso/Navigo card and Lisbon' LisboaViva card, which predate the ISO/IEC 14443 standard. The following tables list smart cards used for public transportation and other electronic purse applications. that will allow registered travelers to bypass general boarding procedures. The cards will be read by a machine that will open a boarding gate after verifying the passenger. The carrier also is implementing new technology to track luggage as it moves through the airport. Passengers will eventually be notified by text message when their bags arrive on the baggage claim Noun 1. baggage claim - an area in an airport where arriving passengers can collect the luggage that has been carried in the hold of the aircraft area - a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided carousel. Sep 17, 2007 Air France KLM KLM Kaiserliche Marine (Enigma: Rising Tide game) KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines) KLM Klub Langer Menschen (German: Tall Person Club) is studying a potential merger with either Italy's Alitalia or Spain's Iberia, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a report on Monday. Air France's chairman and chief executive Jean-Cyril Spinetta said in an interview with the Financial Times newspaper the "consolidation process was not finished; there will be other steps". Alitalia's long-time commercial partner Air France-KLM Air France-KLM (Euronext Paris: AF, NYSE: AKH) is an airline company incorporated under French law with its headquarters at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris, France. is frequently cited in Italian media as a likely buyer for the airline -- whose privatization privatization: see nationalization. privatization Transfer of government services or assets to the private sector. State-owned assets may be sold to private owners, or statutory restrictions on competition between privately and publicly owned flopped in July -- despite repeated denials by the French airline. Spinetta said Air France KLM had held "informal" talks with potential Spanish financial partners, though it was not yet in talks with Iberia. "We are in the phase of evaluating the potential for cooperation with Iberia," he added. Sep 17, 2007 Editorial eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact our Director of Content Aram Gesar eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com AirGuideFlightTracker is a new real-time service that keeps travelers informed on flight and airport status, delays, security wait times via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Pyramid Media Group. All rights reserved. |
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