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French economy minister Le Maire says Air France 'will disappear' unless crisis stops
France 24 ^ | 05/06/2018 | [France 24 with Reuters and AFP]

Posted on 05/06/2018 8:23:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai

France’s economy minister Bruno Le Maire said Sunday that Air France employees must resume dialogue with bosses and restart efforts to improve the company’s competitiveness, otherwise the airline “will disappear”.

“I appeal to the sense of responsibility of everyone involved: flight crew, ground staff, the pilots asking for unjustified pay increases,” he said on French TV news channel BFMTV. “Take responsibility — Air France’s survival is at stake.”

Le Maire added that “the state is not there to pay off the company’s debts”. …

(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News; Travel
KEYWORDS: airfrance; boeing; eussr; france; lemaire; socialmarketeconomy; unionthugs

1 posted on 05/06/2018 8:23:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Crony capitalism = soft socialism = SLOW BANKRUPTCY = Zimbabwe, Venezuela, etc.


2 posted on 05/06/2018 8:26:01 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Olog-hai

Not exactly a reason n to book on Air France at your next opportunity.


3 posted on 05/06/2018 8:28:22 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Olog-hai

4 posted on 05/06/2018 8:32:25 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: Darteaus94025
“These measures [towards socialism] will, of course, be different in different countries.”

— Communist Manifesto, chapter 2

“It is be impossible, of course, to implement all of these measures at once [the ten planks of communism], but one will always bring others in its wake. Once the first radical attack on private property has been launched, the proletariat will find itself forced to go ever further, to concentrate increasingly in the hands of the state all capital, all agriculture, all transport, all trade. All the foregoing measures are directed to this end…”

— The Principles of Communism
Looks like Fabianism is just another branch of Marxism after all.
5 posted on 05/06/2018 8:34:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

France...”company’s competitiveness”

Ha, ha, ha!

I was with a company that acquired a smaller French company. French labor law severely restricted what we could do with the French company. So all the firings to make the combined company more competitive happened in the United States. The U.S. company moved it’s IT support to France! You can imagine how well that worked out.

Good luck getting Air France to change. If they go out of business, they will have a huge fleet of A380s to sell. There’s a huge market for them. (snort)


6 posted on 05/06/2018 8:36:57 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

You’d be crazy to book when the employees are angry and don’t want to work.


7 posted on 05/06/2018 8:44:07 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Olog-hai

They just need some outside the box thinking.

How could they increase profits?

Let’s see.

Increase revenue streams......

Sell advertising on the outside of the planes!

“Fly High At Bob’s Pot Palace!”

“Happy Landings From Acme Life Insurance!”

“Snails! The Other White Meat!”


8 posted on 05/06/2018 8:55:35 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Olog-hai

Hahaha.


9 posted on 05/06/2018 8:56:51 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Olog-hai

I flew Air France last year, and the flight to Paris was quite nice. Mind you, I was in business class…


10 posted on 05/06/2018 10:15:31 AM PDT by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.")
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To: oblomov
Haven't seen that for a while.

That's the first ever EURO-built and touted Airbus on its first computer controlled takeoff.

It did not go well...

11 posted on 05/06/2018 1:21:54 PM PDT by publius911
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To: Olog-hai

Oh no...Air France will go out of business...And how many US airlines went out since 1980s???


12 posted on 05/06/2018 8:29:49 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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