Raw: French-Led EPO Gives Air France Non-Exclusive Contract for All Staff Flights (Even Though EPO Lacks Branches in France)

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2017-12-25 13:32:52 UTC
Modified: 2017-12-25 13:32:52 UTC

Reminder: The next President of the EPO will also be French (a lot of top-level management is already French, thanks to Battistelli's shamelessness, and the President before his successor was French also)

French EPO

Original/full: English [PDF] | French [PDF]

Air France and EPO

Summary: It's getting hard for the EPO under Battistelli to even hide its French bias, especially with deals/arrangements like the above-mentioned one (EPO has one branch in Austria and two in Germany)

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