Last March, Transavia had decided to abandon plans to start service from the airport of Nice. Air France KLM, parent of low-cost airline, determined to strengthen its domestic flights, would have found the answer with the launch of a new low cost subsidiary next year called "Air France Express." Some insiders have told the airline on Thursday àl'AFP that the new subsidiary would provide domestic flights with the establishment of bases in Marseille, Nice and Toulouse. The project could begin next year if agreements with unions are found by then.
"There are ongoing discussions to find a proper tool to fight low-cost airlines," says one source under the cover of anonymity."The idea is to base part of the pilot province to Marseille, Nice and Toulouse to like easyJet: avoid that there are planes that découchent their bases.
"Sleeping out" means to sleep for the crew to the hotel in the province. The choice of locally based pilots and their colleagues in the selected cities would allow Air France to reduce costs. This transfer would be on a voluntary basis.
Rising wages and working
According to these sources, the organization would also enable Air France KLM to raise the efficiency of its rotations flights by making them less dependent on the platform of correspondence from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle."With this database system, we can thus clocking departures depending on the half-turn, the turnaround time required and thereby accelerate the rotation of aircraft, in other words, producing more in a day," says the same source.
More performance of work would mean an increase of about 20% for drivers. But the scenario at all expected. "Pilots have the same number of days worked, but would fly longer and they would be paid a little more without it being equal to the increase in productivity," says the source. The proposed salary increase would be 5%.
For now, the information has not been confirmed by Air France KLM. This project seems, however, part of the struggle against the British easyJet, responsible for the erosion of profitability on these routes.
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