Company Watch - Air France-KLM Group.

For more company news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/professional.htm Jun 26, 2006

Air France celebrated the fifth anniversary of Saphir, its information and reservations service for disabled passengers. "The Saphir service is the only one of its kind and one of our biggest achievements," Chairman and CEO Jean-Cyril Spinetta said. "Our ambition in the medium term is to extend access to our international network for our passengers with reduced mobility." The airline has allocated 5,740 Saphir cards, and the 18-strong Saphir staff in Nice handles an average of 300 calls per day and more than 50,000 each year. Not all reduced mobility passengers use the Saphir service. AF carries more than 300,000 disabled passengers on its network each year. Jun 20, 2006

Air France will operate thrice-weekly flights between Paris Charles de Gaulle and Chennai from Oct. 30 using its own aircraft. It currently codeshares on the route with Delta Air Lines. AF's flights will be aboard a two-class A340 and also will be sold by Delta. In addition, AF will increase capacity to Bangalore from Oct. 30, offering seven weekly flights from CDG instead of five. The Paris-Mumbai route will use 310-seat 777-300s instead of the 270-seat dash 200s operated last winter. In total, Air France's capacity to India will grow by 27%. Jun 20, 2006