Air France-KLM: the new management will be appointed in September

" The recruitment process [du PDG, ndlr] should be finalized in the coming weeks, allowing the effective implementation of the new governance in September ", said the direction of the air group Air France-KLM in an internal mail sent yesterday to the staff.

Anne-Marie Couderc the current acting president of the group, pilot a nomination committee on the board of directors of the Franco-Dutch group to find a successor to Jean-Marc Janaillac who had resigned last May as a result a failed referendum on salaries at Air France. She confirmed that " the auditions of the candidates are actively pursuing ", but no name is quoted. The group's board of directors had asked the nominating committee " to extend the list of candidates examined, adding international profiles from the air world ."

According to internal mail Anne-Marie Couderc lamented " that the process, very well advanced in mid-June, had been slowed since by regrettable and negative external disturbances for the group ". " These disruptions are linked in part to the way in which the AccorHotels group shows its capital interest in the Air France-KLM group, and for others to the media unrest fueled by the many rumors surrounding potential or supposed candidates. ", still according to this internal mail.

Also, Anne-Marie Couderc evoked by way of example, the name of the current CEO of RATP Catherine Guillouard which was advanced" even that the applicant has never been a candidate, and therefore is not integrated into the selection process under way ".