Company Watch - Air France-KLM.Edited by Aram Gesar, edit@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, data, analysis and features, please go to: http://www.AirGuideOnline.com/professional.htm Sep 18, 2006 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 is to show a graphic video on child prostitution on all its long haul Long distance. Long haul implies traversing a state or a country. Contrast with short haul. flights from next month. The aim is to raise awareness of the often hidden problem and to target passengers who may be using its aircraft to fly to vulnerable countries. The 90-second video shows young girls in discos, on streets and in hotels, with graphics displaying their ages. To the sound of handcuffs hand·cuff n. A restraining device consisting of a pair of strong, connected hoops that can be tightened and locked about the wrists and used on one or both arms of a prisoner in custody; a manacle. Often used in the plural. tr.v. clicking shut, the video then shows a middle-aged man, a censor bar across his eyes reading '10 years'. The video will be played on the airline's 94 long haul aircraft and be seen by up to 46,000 passengers a day. UNICEF UNICEF (y  `nĭsĕf'), the United Nations Children's Fund, an affiliated agency of the United Nations. says about one million children are exploited every year in the multi-billion-dollar industry. UK scheduled and charter carriers have been targeted for a number of years by charities fighting child exploitation. http://www.airfrance.com Sep 17, 2006 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) CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Jean-Cyril Spinetta said yesterday that "KLM has started to discuss a cargo joint venture with China Southern" but cautioned that "the talks are in the initial stage," according to Reuters. Beijing is encouraging foreign airlines to set up cargo JVs with Chinese companies in order to meet the nation's explosive growth in airfreight air·freight n. 1. A system of transporting freight by air. 2. The amount charged for transporting freight by air. air demand. Sep 15, 2006 Air France KLM flew 18.1 billion RPKs in August, up 4.8% from the year-ago month. Capacity increased 4.5% to 21.47 billion ASKs, nudging load factor up 0.2 point to 84.3%. Sep 14, 2006 Air France yesterday issued [euro]550 million in unrated bonds that will mature on Jan. 22, 2014. The company said the transaction "met great success in the market" and that the issue, its first since 1993, is intended to diversify its funding sources, refinance existing debt and lengthen the average debt maturity profile. Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, HSBC HSBC Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation HSBC Humane Society of Broward County (Florida) HSBC Humane Society of Bay County (Bay County, Michigan) and Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking were joint lead managers. Sep 13, 2006 KLM will migrate its direct sales and reservations activities from the existing Corda system to Amadeus's Altea Reservation system. Partner Air France has been using Altea Reservation since 1992. "KLM expects that the migration will enable both airlines of the Air France KLM Group to better serve their customers through increased standardization and improved data exchange," it said. Implementation is expected in the first quarter of 2007. Sep 14, 2006 |
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