http://s.huffpost.com/images/HuffingtonPost_250x20.png tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/tag/air-france Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/blake-fleetwood/are-you-about-to-lose-your-miles_b_1311744.html 2012-03-05T07:00:00Z 2012-03-05T07:09:41Z Blake Fleetwood http://www.huffingtonpost.com/blake-fleetwood/ While consumers are dutifully stacking miles and points, the airlines may be counting on those "rewards" going bad before customers can cash in. <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/frequent-flier-miles">Frequent Flier Miles</a>, <a href="/tag/consultants">Consultants</a>, <a href="/tag/travel-tips">Travel Tips</a>, <a href="/tag/air-travel">Air Travel</a>, <a href="/tag/airlines">Airlines</a>, <a href="/tag/american-express">American Express</a>, <a href="/tag/travel">Travel</a>, <a href="/tag/points">Points</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/tag/idea-works">Idea Works</a>, <a href="/tag/american-airlines">American Airlines</a>, <a href="/tag/christopher-elliott">Christopher Elliott</a>, <a href="/tag/travel-blogs">Travel Blogs</a>, <a href="/travel">Travel News</a></p> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-evans-gardner/airplane-wishes-and-champ_b_1175273.html 2012-01-09T08:45:00Z 2012-01-09T08:47:35Z Jennifer Evans Gardner http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-evans-gardner/ Today, sadly, air travel has become an awful, dignity-sucking ordeal as we are forced to stand in long lines without shoes on, subjected to pat downs and body scans. This all for the privilege of being crammed like sardines into a tin can where we might sit on the tarmac for hours, with nary a pretzel or cup of tap water in sight. <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/airplane-travel">Airplane Travel</a>, <a href="/tag/fear-of-flying">Fear of Flying</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/tag/travel">Travel</a>, <a href="/tag/air-travel-hassles">Air Travel Hassles</a>, <a href="/tag/air-travel">Air Travel</a>, <a href="/tag/airlines">Airlines</a>, <a href="/tag/travel-anxiety">Travel Anxiety</a>, <a href="/travel">Travel News</a></p> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/04/suspicious-cell-phone-causes-air-france-flight-to-turn-around_n_1183114.html 2012-01-04T08:42:13Z 2012-01-04T09:13:03Z The Huffington Post News Team http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/ The discovery of a mysterious cell phone on an Air France flight Tuesday prompted pilots to turn their plane around.<br /> <br /> The Boeing 777, en route from ... <p>Read more: <a 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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/14/final-words-of-air-france_n_1011030.html 2011-10-14T12:15:36Z 2011-10-14T12:44:00Z The Huffington Post News Team http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/ A new book has revealed the final words of the cockpit crew of doomed Air France Flight 447, which crashed into the South Atlantic off the coast of Br... <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/bea">Bea</a>, <a href="/tag/plane-crashes">Plane Crashes</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-flight-447">Air France Flight 447</a>, <a href="/tag/aviation-safety">Aviation Safety</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-crash">Air France Crash</a>, <a href="/tag/global-pulse">Global Pulse</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/tag/aviation">Aviation</a>, <a href="/tag/airbus-a330">Airbus a330</a>, <a href="/tag/airbus">Airbus</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-447">Air France 447</a>, <a href="/tag/video">Video</a>, <a href="/tag/flight-447">Flight 447</a>, <a href="/travel">Travel News</a></p> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/04/gerard-depardieu-plane-peeing-spoof_n_948506.html 2011-09-04T15:22:39Z 2011-09-04T15:22:39Z The Huffington Post News Team http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/ Even Gerard Depardieu himself can't help but laugh at his infamous plane peeing incident.<br /> <br /> The French star, who peed in the aisle of a CityJet plane... <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/dublin">Dublin</a>, <a href="/tag/public-urination">Public Urination</a>, <a href="/tag/france">France</a>, <a href="/tag/paris-france">Paris-France</a>, <a href="/tag/toilets">Toilets</a>, <a href="/tag/global-pulse">Global Pulse</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/tag/bathroom">Bathroom</a>, <a href="/tag/gerard-depardieu">Gerard Depardieu</a>, <a href="/tag/klm">Klm</a>, <a href="/tag/europe-travel">Europe Travel</a>, <a href="/tag/travel-news">Travel News</a>, <a href="/tag/cityjet">Cityjet</a>, <a href="/tag/airlines">Airlines</a>, <a href="/entertainment">Entertainment 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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/14/in-flight-video-san-francisco_n_926837.html 2011-08-14T23:55:36Z 2011-08-15T11:24:33Z The Huffington Post News Team http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/ AOL Travel writer David Parker Brown found this video from Nate Bolt, who was able to snap 2,459 photos and condense a 10 and a half hour long flight ... <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/airplane-video">Airplane Video</a>, <a href="/tag/video">Video</a>, <a href="/tag/video-san-francisco-to-paris">Video San Francisco to Paris</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/tag/travel-video">Travel Video</a>, <a href="/tag/northern-lights">Northern Lights</a>, <a href="/tag/flight-time-lapse">Flight Time Lapse</a>, <a href="/tag/nate-bolt">Nate Bolt</a>, <a href="/tag/gotta-see-this">Gotta See This</a>, <a href="/travel">Travel News</a></p> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/04/westjet-earnings-profit-s_n_918183.html 2011-08-04T11:01:33Z 2011-08-04T11:05:16Z The Huffington Post News Team http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/ CALGARY - WestJet has seen its second-quarter profits soar almost 275 per cent as higher fares and cost controls helped offset increased fuel prices, ... <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/air-canada">Air Canada</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/tag/british-airways">British Airways</a>, <a href="/tag/delta-air-lines">Delta Air Lines</a>, <a href="/tag/westjet">Westjet</a>, <a href="/tag/american-airlines">American Airlines</a>, <a href="/tag/airline-earnings">Airline Earnings</a>, <a href="/tag/klm">Klm</a>, <a href="/tag/airline-industry">Airline Industry</a>, <a href="/tag/cathay-pacific">Cathay Pacific</a>, <a href="/home">Home News</a></p> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/air-france-crash-pilot-er_n_913083.html 2011-07-29T09:17:01Z 2011-07-29T09:17:01Z The Huffington Post News Team http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/ LE BOURGET, France &mdash; A confused cockpit crew without proper training to head off high-altitude disaster flew toward it, instead, with wrong-head... <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/air-france-crash-rio">Air France Crash Rio</a>, <a href="/tag/airbus-a330">Airbus a330</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-pilots">Air France Pilots</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/tag/france">France</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-crash">Air France Crash</a>, <a href="/world">World News</a></p> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mohamed-el-dahshan/meeting-the-french-subver_b_893937.html 2011-07-12T15:30:38Z 2011-07-12T15:33:28Z Mohamed El Dahshan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mohamed-el-dahshan/ They are armed with colourful balloons and high spirits. There's a rainbow flag in the midst. But according to the Israeli government and the airlines that seem to take their orders from it, they are subversive elements and dangerous criminals. <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/tag/france">France</a>, <a href="/tag/israel">Israel</a>, <a href="/tag/palestine">Palestine</a>, <a href="/tag/protests">Protests</a>, <a href="/tag/malev">Malev</a>, <a href="/politics">Politics News</a></p> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/01/air-france-447-crash-site_n_869661.html 2011-06-01T10:53:03Z 2011-06-01T10:56:31Z The Huffington Post News Team http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/ A French search team has pulled 75 more bodies from the wreckage of Air France Flight 447, which crashed en route to Paris on June 1, 2009.<br /> <br /> Reuters... <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-447">Air France 447</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-447-parts-found">Air France 447 Parts Found</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-447-black-box">Air France 447 Black Box</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-447-flight-data-recorder">Air France 447 Flight Data Recorder</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-crash">Air France Crash</a>, <a href="/travel">Travel News</a></p> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/16/strauss-kahn-imf-greece-recovery_n_862335.html 2011-05-16T10:00:37Z 2011-05-16T09:59:05Z The Huffington Post News Team http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/ What the arrest of International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn means for the global economy has only just begun to take shape. <br /> <br /> On Sat... <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/global-economy">Global Economy</a>, <a href="/tag/dominique-strauss-kahn">Dominique Strauss Kahn</a>, <a href="/tag/egypt">Egypt</a>, <a href="/tag/international-monetary-fund">International Monetary Fund</a>, <a href="/tag/dsk">Dsk</a>, <a href="/tag/imf-emerging-economies">Imf Emerging Economies</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/tag/imf-sexual-assault">Imf Sexual Assault</a>, <a href="/tag/john-lipsky">John Lipsky</a>, <a href="/tag/imf">Imf</a>, <a href="/tag/disaster-imf">Disaster Imf</a>, <a href="/tag/nemat-shafik">Nemat Shafik</a>, <a href="/tag/attempted-rape">Attempted Rape</a>, <a href="/business">Business News</a></p> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beth-arnold/letter-from-paris-air-fra_b_862351.html 2011-05-16T08:57:11Z 2011-05-16T08:57:11Z Beth Arnold http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beth-arnold/ Père-Lachaise is the largest cemetery in Paris at 118.6 acres and is said to be the world's most visited home to the dead. It was with some surprise that while taking a stroll there, we came across a memorial to the victims of Air France Flight 447. <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/tag/pere-lachaise-cemetery">Pere Lachaise Cemetery</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-flight-447">Air France Flight 447</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-447">Air France 447</a>, <a href="/tag/memorial">Memorial</a>, <a href="/tag/france">France</a>, <a href="/tag/cemetaries">Cemetaries</a>, <a href="/world">World News</a></p> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-negroni/air-france-black-box_b_857335.html 2011-05-04T14:10:00Z 2011-05-04T14:11:50Z Christine Negroni http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-negroni/ After the crash of Flight 447, I faced the <em>Twitter paradox</em>: How can my 16-year-old son, using his cell phone, know his friends' every move, while multi-million dollar airliners are unable to transmit critical information?" <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-flight-447">Air France Flight 447</a>, <a href="/tag/olivier-ferrente">Olivier Ferrente</a>, <a href="/tag/black-box">Black Box</a>, <a href="/tag/airbus">Airbus</a>, <a href="/tag/drs-industries">DRS Industries</a>, <a href="/tag/black-box-found">Black Box Found</a>, <a href="/tag/twitter-paradox">Twitter Paradox</a>, <a href="/tag/yemenia-a310">Yemenia A310</a>, <a href="/tag/yemenia-crash">Yemenia Crash</a>, <a href="/tag/bea">Bea</a>, <a href="/travel">Travel News</a></p> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/03/air-france-crash-black-box_n_856975.html 2011-05-03T14:55:09Z 2011-05-03T14:54:14Z The Huffington Post News Team http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/ <br /> <br /> PARIS (Reuters) – Search parties scouring the sea bed off Brazil's northeast coast have recovered the second of two flight recorders from the Ai... <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/tag/brazildepressing">Brazil@Depressing</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-black-box">Air France Black Box</a>, <a href="/tag/cockpit-voice-recorder">Cockpit Voice Recorder</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-crash">Air France Crash</a>, <a href="/world">World News</a></p> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/03/christian-boncorps-drunk-_n_856821.html 2011-05-03T09:17:32Z 2011-05-03T09:27:39Z The Huffington Post News Team http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/ In a story that is just coming to light on Tuesday, a 61-year old man told an Air France ticket agent at New York's JFK airport on Friday night that "... <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/tag/christian-boncorps">Christian Boncorps</a>, <a href="/tag/tsa">Tsa</a>, <a href="/tag/tsa-jfk-airport">Tsa Jfk Airport</a>, <a href="/tag/christian-boncorps-tsa">Christian Boncorps Tsa</a>, <a href="/tag/jfk-airport-security">Jfk Airport Security</a>, <a href="/tag/airlines">Airlines</a>, <a href="/travel">Travel News</a></p> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/01/black-box-air-france-crash_n_856050.html 2011-05-01T17:21:40Z 2011-05-01T17:36:59Z The Huffington Post News Team http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/ PARIS -- Investigators have located and recovered the missing memory unit of the flight data recorder of a 2009 Air France flight &ndash; a remarkable... <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/black-box-found">Black Box Found</a>, <a href="/tag/plane-crash-black-box">Plane Crash Black Box</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-2009-crash">Air France 2009 Crash</a>, <a href="/tag/flight-447">Flight 447</a>, <a href="/tag/black-box">Black Box</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-crash">Air France Crash</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-plane-crash">Air France Plane Crash</a>, <a href="/tag/airlines">Airlines</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-black-box">Air France Black Box</a>, <a href="/tag/black-box-air-france">Black Box Air France</a>, <a href="/world">World News</a></p> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-negroni/oh-the-horror-of-being-an_b_851828.html 2011-04-21T10:56:37Z 2011-04-21T10:56:15Z Christine Negroni http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-negroni/ To be an aviation writer these days means being barraged by disparate facts, eyewitness tweets, and partial impressions that can create a Frankenstein-like picture of aviation. <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/tsa-pat-downs">Tsa Pat Downs</a>, <a href="/tag/southwest-airlines">Southwest Airlines</a>, <a href="/tag/tsa">Tsa</a>, <a href="/tag/air-traffic-controllers">Air Traffic Controllers</a>, <a href="/tag/aviation">Aviation</a>, <a href="/tag/fear-or-flying">Fear or Flying</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/travel">Travel News</a></p> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/denise-dennis/see-stroll-and-savor-pari_b_851692.html 2011-04-20T17:17:26Z 2011-04-20T17:18:22Z Denise Dennis http://www.huffingtonpost.com/denise-dennis/ "Paris in Spring." These words, evocative of floral gardens, sidewalk cafes, and wide boulevards, remind us that Spring is one of the loveliest seas... <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/tag/paris">Paris</a>, <a href="/tag/river-seine">River Seine</a>, <a href="/tag/tourism">Tourism</a>, <a href="/tag/trocadero">Trocadero</a>, <a href="/tag/paris-france">Paris-France</a>, <a href="/tag/eiffel-tower">Eiffel Tower</a>, <a href="/travel">Travel News</a></p> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/11/airbus-a380-jumbo-jet-clips-tail-taxi-jfk_n_847868.html 2011-04-11T23:39:14Z 2011-04-11T23:39:42Z The Huffington Post News Team http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/ NEW YORK -- A wing of an Airbus A380, the world's biggest commercial passenger jet, clipped the tail of another plane while taxiing out to depart John... <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/comair">Comair</a>, <a href="/tag/boston">Boston</a>, <a href="/tag/john-f-kennedy-international">John-F-Kennedy-International</a>, <a href="/tag/faa">Faa</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-flight-7">Air France Flight 7</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/tag/federal-aviation-administration">Federal Aviation Administration</a>, <a href="/tag/comair-flight-629crj7">Comair Flight 629crj7</a>, <a href="/tag/airbus-a380">Airbus A380</a>, <a href="/tag/jfk-airport">JFK Airport</a>, <a href="/tag/airlines">Airlines</a>, <a href="/tag/airbus">Airbus</a>, <a href="/tag/new-york">New York</a>, <a href="/tag/delta-airlines">Delta Airlines</a>, <a href="/travel">Travel News</a></p> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-negroni/air-france-flight-447_b_844274.html 2011-04-06T13:00:00Z 2011-04-06T13:03:20Z Christine Negroni http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-negroni/ Despite the fact that no one yet knows what happened to Flight 447, the French government recently filed manslaughter charges against Airbus and Air France. <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-447">Air France 447</a>, <a href="/tag/thales">Thales</a>, <a href="/tag/airbus">Airbus</a>, <a href="/tag/sacadura-cabral">Sacadura Cabral</a>, <a href="/tag/aviation-history">Aviation History</a>, <a href="/tag/gago-coutinhom">Gago Coutinhom</a>, <a href="/tag/bea">Bea</a>, <a href="/tag/aviation-safety">Aviation Safety</a>, <a href="/tag/aviation-pioneers">Aviation Pioneers</a>, <a href="/tag/crossing-lisbon">Crossing Lisbon</a>, <a href="/tag/airbus-a330">Airbus a330</a>, <a href="/travel">Travel News</a></p> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/03/air-france-crash_n_844206.html 2011-04-03T20:12:16Z 2011-04-03T20:12:16Z The Huffington Post News Team http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/ PARIS &mdash; Underwater search teams have located pieces of an Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic in 2009, French investigators said Sunda... <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/air-france-447">Air France 447</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-crash">Air France Crash</a>, <a href="/tag/atlantic-plane-crash">Atlantic Plane Crash</a>, <a href="/tag/flight-447">Flight 447</a>, <a href="/tag/plane-crash">Plane Crash</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/tag/brazil-plane-crash">Brazil Plane Crash</a>, <a href="/tag/flight-447-crash">Flight 447 Crash</a>, <a href="/tag/brazil">Brazil</a>, <a href="/world">World News</a></p> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/18/air-france-faces-manslaug_n_837449.html 2011-03-18T07:47:45Z 2011-03-18T07:53:17Z The Huffington Post News Team http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/ PARIS -- A French judge filed preliminary charges Friday against Air France over a 2009 crash that killed all 228 people aboard a jet that plunged int... <p>Read more: <a href="/tag/air-france">Air France</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-2009-crash">Air France 2009 Crash</a>, <a href="/tag/travel">Travel</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-manslaughter-charges">Air France Manslaughter Charges</a>, <a href="/tag/airlines">Airlines</a>, <a href="/tag/travel-news">Travel News</a>, <a href="/tag/air-france-crash">Air France Crash</a>, <a href="/travel">Travel News</a></p>