Air France Logo — Air France (AFR, Compagnie Nationale Air France ) is the airline national French . This company has transported 43.3 million passengers and made a profit of 12.53 billion euros between April of 2001 and March of 2002 . It routes between 345 cities in 85 countries and employs more than 64,000 employees. It belongs to the alliance SkyTeam along with Delta , Aeromexico , Air Europa , Korean Air , CSA Czech Airlines , Alitalia and KLM . In 2004 , Air France is ranked as the first European airline with 18% of all passengers on the continent.
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Air France was founded on August 30th of 1933 from the merger of Air Orient, Compagnie Générale Aéropostale of Pierre-Georges Latécoère , Société Générale de Transport Aérien (SGTA, the first French carrier, founded in 1919 as Aériennes Lignes Farman), Air Union and CIDNA (Compagnie Internationale de Navigation). The airline has numerous routes throughout Europe , but also flies to the former French colonies in North Africa and elsewhere. The company was nationalized in the year 1946 creating the Compagnie Nationale Air France in a parliamentary act on June 16th of 1948 . The government was 70% of the new company and still (as of mid 2002 ) owns 54% of the airline. On August 4th of 1948 , Max Hymans was appointed president of Air France. During his thirteen years in office implemented a policy of modernization based on jet aircraft, specifically the Sud Aviation Caravelle and the Boeing 707 . More