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Air France: Anne Rigail, an engineer to stay the course between health turmoil
Promoted by Ben Smith upon her arrival at Air France-KLM, this engineer from the seraglio and connected to the field has the strengths of the perfect monk soldier. To stay the course between the need for competitiveness and health turmoil.
The prospect of having your nostrils pummeled with a swab at 8:50 a.m. is not really good. However, by landing at Milan-Linate airport on September 28, Anne Rigail says she is “ready to play the game”. The CEO of Air France, who came to visit her teams in Italy, wants above all to see how antigenic tests work, this new method of screening for the coronavirus in less than thirty minutes already in place with our neighbors. In France, the Minister of Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, promised their deployment from November in Roissy and Nice, first for passengers to the United States and Italy. Two big destinations for the company weighed down by the reluctance of travelers to fly.
Faced with the sales representatives of the stopover, the boss does not hide her concerns. “After the rebound in the summer, the activity for the fall and winter is significantly worse than expected”, she explains, announcing the decision to reduce the overall capacities of Air France to 50%. from normal. The company is now losing more than 10 million euros per day and the reconfinement in France and in Europe risks further aggravating the situation. The Franco-Dutch group has just announced a net loss of 1.6 billion in the third quarter.
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