Air France on Friday presented unions with a new development plan, revising a restructuring project that had prompted violent demonstrations and physical attacks on company managers. The new blueprint calls for two aircraft to be added to the carrier's long-haul services per year between 2017 and 2020, and possible job creations, subject to an agreement on productivity, unions said after a meeting in which management submitted the proposals.
If approved, the project will replace the second stage of the so-called "Plan B" austerity programme, which had called for the withdrawal of nine planes from the company's fleet, reduced flight schedules and 2,000 job cuts.