Air France
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Air France, stylised as AIRFRANCE, is the flag carrier of France, and is headquartered in Tremblay-en-France. The airline is a subsidiary of the Air France–KLM Group and is one of the founding members of the SkyTeam airline alliance. As of 2013, Air France served 29 destinations in France and operates worldwide scheduled passenger and cargo services to 201 destinations in 78 countries and also carried 46,803,000 passengers in 2019. The airline maintains its global and domestic hub at Charles de Gaulle Airport. Air France's corporate headquarters, previously in Montparnasse, Paris, are located at the Roissypôle complex on the grounds of Charles de Gaulle Airport, north of Paris.
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2.4
5 reviews
60%
would recommend
29
pay reports
What crew at Air France report
The things an employer never publishes and a review cannot hold as a number: whether they are recruiting, how long the upgrade takes, what the rating cost, what the selection process is, what the roster does, and what the layovers are like.
Is this carrier hiring
Crew-reported, over the last 6 months. Older signals stop counting.
- Hiring and running courses62%
- Hiring, but slowly or selectively0%
- Recruitment frozen38%
- Redundancies or fleet reductions0%
What crew inside Air France say, not a company statement. Recruitment turns over in months, so this is a window rather than a running total.
How long the upgrade takes
Crew-reported time in rank, published in years.
Upgraded (6)
4.5 yr
4.4 – 5.6 typical
Still waiting (5)
7.8 yr
7.1 – 9.3 typical
The upgrade figure is over the crew it has happened to. Where the waiting figure is higher, the queue is longer than the people who got through suggest.
The roster, as flown
What the contract says, and what crew actually get.
Days off, contracted
9
Days off, actual
7
Roster published
14 d ahead
Changes after
2 / mo
Crew here lose a median of 2 days off a month against what they are contracted.
Patterns flown
- 5 on, 4 off43%
- 5 on, 3 off57%
- 6 on, 3 off0%
- 6 on, 2 off0%
- 4 on, 3 off0%
- Rotational or block roster0%
- No fixed pattern0%
43% of crew reporting here actually commute to this base.
Type rating and bonds
What crew paid to get rated, and what it tied them to.
- I paid, up front57%
- I paid, deducted from salary0%
- Employer paid, with a bond43%
- Employer paid, no bond0%
Paid by crew
Members
4 paid something
Bond
Members
The selection process
What crew who applied say it consisted of.
- Online assessment or aptitude test100%
- Group exercise or assessment day25%
- HR or competency interview100%
- Simulator assessment75%
Difficulty
4 / 5
Application to answer
10 wk
4 who heard back
The time figure covers processes that ended. Applications nobody ever answered have no week count and are left out of it rather than counted as fast.
Layovers
The hotel, the rest, and whether the allowance covered it.
Nobody has reported layover here yet.
The fleet
What they operate, and what crew think of it.
Average age covers 0% of the fleet — the rest have no published age.
Source: Industry operator dataset (2024-10-04)
What crew flying it say
- Condition of the cabin and flight deck44.2
- Does it go tech44.2
- Comfort with the defects you are asked to carry42.0
Crew perception, from 4 reports. Not a safety or airworthiness record.
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