Historically Air France's single biggest challenge has been with their labor groups. Management and unions simply haven't been able to see eye-to-eye, and various labor groups have collectively been on strike for months (and some of these strikes were even violent), costing the airline hundreds of millions of Euros. This is just so dumb. No,…
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And now (good) news reports that Air France wants to "go upmarket" - the CEO specifically refers to not all J class seats being beds:
https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2019/01/23/air-france-wants-to-go-upmarket/
Great to read your confidence in the new CEO and only time will tell if what he has done will work or not. I just hope he doesn't cut or cheapen La Premiere.
Good report! It looks like Ben is doing a good job! Hence, the 789 route adjustments
A shame that the board at AA didn't have a sudden attack of sanity and try to hire him before he moved to KL/AF.
@James H: I was thinking the same thing. Ben loves Ben, and it was awkward how many times Ben wrote down Ben's name. I had a picture of Samuel L Jackson shouting "Say Ben one more time, I dare you!" 😉
But Frenchie here: it's rare to see a non-French CEO for a major French company, but even more rare to see unanimous union agreement with a CEO (French or not) so it really is an achievement.
@Debit isn't Benjamin Smith Canadian?
Who are "the southern white Americans aka today’s white Republican males" you are talking about here?
Just wondering.
Ben Smith is also gay like Alan Joyce at QANTAS. Guess AC and QF hired the right guy. The dorks at UA and AA have no idea what they're doing.