Europe’s competition watchdog has cleared Air France-KLM to buy a 31% stake, while Delta keeps its 49%.

Wizz Air has pushed past SAS into ninth place in a new list of Europe’s top 20 airline groups, with another carrier close behind.

Air France-KLM CEO Benjamin Smith revealed the news today, following speculation that HOP! could vanish altogether.

The bigger airlines “are using the crisis among smaller carriers to entrench their positions by gaining taking market share”.

Initially launched as a new airline aimed at millennials, Air France admits the brand positioning was “difficult to understand”.

In an industry painfully short of women leaders, Anne Rigail now has the task of dealing with the airline’s powerful unions.

Air France-KLM’s new chief executive has made clear he doesn’t understand the millennial-oriented carrier’s identity.

Air France’s new chief executive Benjamin Smith has backed reducing the number of the cost-burning A380s in the fleet.

After an emergency landing, passengers and crew were marooned in Irkutsk for three days with no passports, no luggage.

The new chief executive makes his first conference call with analysts, starting to outline a new vision.

Nordic business travellers are on the radar for the group, which is launching 44 new routes overall this winter and expanding frequencies.

Air France customers are now able to exclusively test the advanced-tech products and services of ten French start-ups.

Choose from any of three “passes” that give access to texts, to emails and the internet, or to high-speed streaming.

The youthful Air France carrier has announced six new destinations for summer 2019, another being Irma-ravaged Saint Martin.

The airline presents its new economy and premium economy “collection” stressing “comfort” and “elegance”.

It is “inconceivable”, unions say, that Air France-KLM would name Air Canada COO Benjamin Smith.

KLM, Finnair and Air France are among those maximising their presence among China’s outbound travellers.

Several months after it signed a codeshare agreement with KLM, Widerøe approves one with Air France.

There has been a backlash since rumours that the CFO of a water and waste management company was about to be nominated.

There are several ways a deal between Accor and the French government could work.