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Air France @ Orly
The second part of the trilogy of the Parisian airports is online now !
http://www.airfrancelasaga.com/airfrance-a-orly/
Through a real interactive album, discover the airport of Paris-Orly – symbol of the years of the General de Gaulle and thirty glorious, but also its imprint always present in the current events!
The fleet goes live on www.airfrancelasaga.com!
Discover our new « Hangar » section containing new videos, produced from archive images and recent interviews. You can also find detailed information on the history and characteristics of these aircraft. To mark the arrival of the A380 in the Air France fleet , five aircraft have taken the stage: the Short Bermuda Sandringham, the DC3, the Breguet Deux Ponts, the A320 and the A380. Other aircraft will be progressively added to the new Hangar selection.
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Spreading their wings
In the early 20th century, it took guts and a strong personality for a woman to conquer the skies. Meet the pioneers. — By Marc Branchu
Élise Deroche, Harriet Quimby, Bessie [...] -
A century of air cargo
The delivery of a batch of silk via aircraft in 1910 ushered in the age of air freight. A look back at the history of a little-known activity, from Aéropostale, [...]
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Our man in the Orient
In the early 1920s, Maurice Noguès pursued a single-minded dream: to create an air link between France and the Far East. Step by step, he established a route to Saigon. [...]
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The lofty route from Paris to London.
Ninety years ago, the first commercial flight to London ended the UK’s isolation (…)
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KLM turns 90
The world’s oldest airline owes its longevity to its reliable fleet, long-haul network and passenger service (…)
Ephemeris
July 17, 1960
With 122 passengers on board, an Air France transcontinental Boeing 707 named « Château de Rambouillet » flies between Montreal and Paris in 5 hours 40 minutes a record for a commercial [...]
July 11, 2000
Air France Cargo customers can obtain the position of their shipment in real time on their mobile phones with an internet connection using WAP (Wireless Access Protocol) technology.
To get their [...]
July 8, 1930
Air Orient emerges out of an amalgamation between Air Asie and Air Union Lignes d’Orient.
The new airline has its offices at 2 rue Marbeuf in Paris, the future Air France [...]
June 22, 2000
Official launch of the SkyTeam Alliance by four airline majors: AéroMexico, Air France, Delta Air Lines and Korean Air. Their primary objective is to strengthen their stronghold in Asia and [...]
June 20, 1960
Air France brings the Boeing 707 into service in South America. Two routes are operated each week in both directions, the first: Paris-Lisbon-Pointe à Pitre-Caracas, the second, with the same [...]
June 15, 2000
Air France starts operations to Lima once more – suspended in 1995 – with a change of aircraft in Atlanta, and on a code-share basis with Delta Airlines. Air France [...]
June 3, 1970
The first Air France Boeing 747-100, registered as F-BPVA, is brought into service on Paris-New York. The « Jumbo Jet » can carry about 400 passengers. With a cruising altitude of 950 [...]
May 17, 1950
Air France opens stations in Colombo (Sri Lanka) and Bangkok on the Paris-Rome-Cairo-Bahrain-Karachi-Colombo-Bangkok-Saigon route, operated weekly with DC-4, in 3 ½ days.
In 2009, Colombo is no longer operated by Air [...]
May 17, 1940
Jean Dagnaux, a pioneer of French commercial aviation in Africa, dies hit by gunfire over Vallée-aux-Bleds (Aisne, France), on board an Amiot 354 bomber.
May 11, 1930
From 11 to 15 May 1930 – First fully air-borne journey from Toulouse to Santiago de Chile, for Aéropostale, with stopovers in Barcelona, Alicante, Casablanca, Agadir, Cap Juby, Villa Cisneros, Port-Etienne, [...]
May 8, 1950
Air France, together with TAI, flies round the world, “Tour du monde des Ailes Françaises” – round the world with French wings
A T.A.I. DC-7 leaves Paris for Los Angeles by [...]
May 3, 1950
Air France introduces a new Paris-Algiers-Niamey-Lomé service by DC-4.
This service is at the forefront of the Air France network incursion into Continental Africa.
May 3, 1950
Air France opens a luxury weekly service between Paris and Antananarivo in Constellation.
This new aircraft reduces not only travelling time to 24 hours but also stopovers to two, namely Cairo [...]
April 26, 1950
There are now flights from Paris to the New Hebrides: Trapas operates the route from Port-Vila to Noumea by Catalina and Air France operates the leg from Noumea to Paris by DC-4. [...]
April 24, 1960
The Boeing 707 is put into service on the Paris-Montreal-Chicago route, with two weekly services. The flight time is reduced to 9hrs 5mins.
April 18, 1960
The President of the Republic and Madame De Gaulle, accompanied by their entourage, flew from Paris to Ottawa on board an Air France four-engine Boeing 707 Intercontinental
April 18, 1950
Air France inaugurates its Paris-Lourdes-Rome route by Languedoc, with one weekly service.
April 16, 1930
Paul Vachet and Gaston Chenu operate the first air postal service Caracas-Ciudad Bolivar (Venezuela) and return, by Laté 28 F-AJLB.
April 15, 2000
Air France and Delta Airlines launch a daily non-stop flight from Lyon to New York-JFK by Boeing 767-300 operated by Delta Airlines (195 seats).
Avril 9, 1970
Inauguration of the trans-Siberian Paris-Moscow-Tokyo route by Boeing 707.
This flight, operated twice a week, lasts 13hrs 45mins, including the stopover in Moscow.
This route launch follows a series of negotiations between [...]
April 8, 1980
Air France inaugurates its Toulouse-Madrid, Toulouse-Barcelona and Toulouse-Milan routes by Fokker 28.
April 5, 1960
On the occasion of their official visit to Great Britain, the President of the Republic and Madame de Gaulle travel from Paris to London on a Caravelle made especially available [...]
April 4, 1960
Launch of flights to Los Angeles as a continuation of the Paris-Montreal route with the Air France Boeing 707 « Chateau de Versailles » making the inaugural flight.
April 4, 1960
André Malraux, Minister of State, and twelve of his associates, went on an official assignment from Paris to Mexico City on a regular Air France scheduled flight.