Air France is the flag carrier of France, formed from the merger of several earlier French airlines, including Air Orient and the assets of the failed Compagnie Générale Aéropostale, in a government-backed reorganization. In the following years it built a network across Europe, North Africa and the French colonies, and it was nationalized after the Second World War. The airline was an early operator of the Lockheed Constellation and the Boeing 707 and, together with British Airways, ran the supersonic Concorde from 1976 until 2003. In 2004 it merged with KLM to form the Air France–KLM group, one of the world's largest airlines. Its main hub is Paris–Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Before and after
- 11 June 1933Birth of Gene Wilder
- 23 July 1933Construction of MHPArena
- 7 August 1933Birth of Elinor Ostrom
- 18 August 1933Birth of Roman Polanski
- 30 August 1933Founding of Air France
- 3 November 1933Birth of Amartya Sen
- 19 November 1933Birth of Larry King
- 23 December 1933Birth of Akihito
- 26 December 1933Founding of Nissan
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The era
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