Air France (national airline) - Compagnie Nationale Air France

Japanese: エール・フランス国営航空[会社] - エールフランスこくえいこうくう(英語表記)Compagnie Nationale Air France
Air France (national airline) - Compagnie Nationale Air France
The national airline of France, based in Paris (98.6% owned by the government). Its airline code is AF. It mainly operates international routes, and its route network covers the whole world, with short and medium-distance routes connecting major cities in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, and long-distance routes connecting major cities in North and South America, the Caribbean, Africa, Madagascar, the Indian Ocean Islands, and Southeast Asia. It was the first capitalist country to open routes to China. It has been serving Japan since 1952. It was established in 1933 through a merger of Air Union and several other airlines, but became nationalized when the Nationalization Act was enacted in 1948.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
パリに本拠地を置くフランスの国営航空会社(政府保有株式98.6%)。航空会社コードはAF。国際線を中心に運営し,路線網は,ヨーロッパ,北アフリカ,中東の主要都市を結ぶ近・中距離路線と,南・北アメリカ,カリブ海諸島,アフリカ,マダガスカル,インド洋諸島,東南アジアの主要都市を結ぶ長距離路線で,全世界に及んでいる。資本主義諸国では中国路線の開設が最も早く行われた。日本には1952年より乗り入れている。1933年エール・ユニオンAir Unionほか数社が合併し設立されたが,48年国有化法が制定されて国営となった。

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