Innovations Air France
06/03/2014 18:18
The company claims the following innovations:
- Development of a supersonic Concorde network in 1976 from Paris to Dakar, Caracas, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro and New York.
- Creation of the class "Business" in 1978, which replaces the First Class on short and medium-haul flights, and complete on the long-haul. This model will be emulated by most other companies in the vocables "Business Class" or "class club."
- Achieving a proper rhythm, Shuttle in 1990, between Paris-Orly and some French cities (Nice, Marseille, Toulouse and Bordeaux).
- The launch of a First-class "luxury" on long-haul flights, with the ground, exclusive private lounges on board sleeper chairs and a dedicated service, changing the old abbreviation for F in First P First. The level of benefits is embellished with the emergence of Airbus A380 double-decker. Whatever the destination of the passenger First, he arrives at CDG 2E terminal, gate 12 departures then be supported by the First Service (baggage in a private room, pass police formalities and fast security, private elevator the living room, moving a member of the Border Police in costume (no uniform) in the lounge to check passports, private elevator down to the track, arriving at the foot of the appliance by a car service luxury).
- Launching a class intermediate between trip Voyageur (Economy and formerly Tempo) and Business (formerly Space 127 and The Espace Affaires): The Premium Voyageur class. More comfortable, it has chairs "shell" with a lower leg (but do not lie to 180 °) and more space between them. New seats Alizé Class (Antilles, French Guiana and Réunion) will be derived.
- The launch aircraft for its domestic network 37 (Airbus A319/320/321) as well as its flights to Europe from Marseille, Toulouse, Nice and Bordeaux (A319/320) new seats manufactured by Recaro and lighter offering more legroom.
- The launch of a new Business class seat for the Long Haul. With more space, and ease of use.
- 2014 Air France deploys an enterprise social network Yammer dedicated to its pilots and staff. The objective is to replace paper documentation and establish a "local management".
