Air France fleet

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Air France operates a fleet of 229 aircraft, most of which are manufactured by Airbus Industrie. The airline's fleet of narrow-body aircraft comprises all four Airbus A320 family variants. The airline's wide-body fleet, consisting of the Airbus A330, Airbus A350 XWB, Boeing 777, and Boeing 787 Dreamliner families, serve medium to long-haul routes. [1] [2] [3] [4] The airline had also ordered the short-haul Airbus A220-300s to replace their aging Airbus A318s and A319s. In September 2023, Air France-KLM announced an order for 50 Airbus A350 aircraft which will be shared between Air France and KLM to replace their aging Airbus A330 and Boeing 777-200ER aircraft. [5]

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Current fleet

As of July 2025, Air France operates the following aircraft: [6]

Air France fleet
AircraftIn serviceOrdersPassengers [7] Notes
FJWYTotal
Airbus A220-300 4515148148Order with 30 options and 30 purchase rights. [5]
Replacing Airbus A318-100 and Airbus A319-100. [8]
Airbus A318-100 5131131Last airline operator. [9]
To be retired and replaced by Airbus A220-300. [8]
Airbus A319-100 7142142To be retired and replaced by Airbus A220-300. [8]
143143
Airbus A320-200 36174174
178178
Airbus A321-100 4212212
Airbus A321-200 10200200
212212
Airbus A330-200 103621167224To be retired and replaced by Airbus A350-900. [10]
Airbus A350-900 3923424266324 [11] Order with 40 options to be shared between Air France and KLM and delivered from 2026 to 2030. [12] [13] [14]
Replacing Airbus A330-200, Boeing 777-200ER and older Boeing 777-300ER. [10] [15]
It is confirmed through manufacturer order records that the split will consist of 47 A350-900s and 3 A350-1000s with allocation yet to be determined. [6]
4832212292
47TBA
Airbus A350-1000 3TBA
Boeing 777-200ER 182832268328To be retired and replaced by Airbus A350-900. [10]
Boeing 777-300ER 4345828206296Launch customer. [16]
Older aircraft to be retired and replaced by Airbus A350-900. [10]
4848273369
1428430472
Boeing 787-9 [17] 103021228279
Air France Cargo fleet
Airbus A350F 3 [18] Cargo
Boeing 777F 2CargoLaunch customer. [16]
To be retired and replaced by Airbus A350F. [18]
Total22970

Fleet history

Previously, Air France operated the following aircraft types:

Air France historical fleet
AircraftTotalIntroducedRetiredReplacementNotesRefs
Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde 619762003None
12000Crashed as flight AF4590.
Airbus A300B2-100 1019741996 Airbus A330-200
11994NoneHijacked and written-off as flight AF8969.
Airbus A300B4-200 1419761998 Airbus A330-200 One was hijacked in 1976 as flight AF139.
Airbus A310-200 719842002 Airbus A330-200
Airbus A310-300 419892002
Airbus A320-100 1319882010 Airbus A320-200
11988NoneCrashed as flight AF296Q.
Airbus A330-200 120052009NoneCrashed as flight AF447.
Airbus A340-200 619931999 Boeing 777-200ER
Airbus A340-300 2319932020 Airbus A350-900 [19] Launch customer.
Retirement due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
[20]
12005NoneCrashed as flight AF358.
Airbus A380-800 1020092020 Airbus A350-900 [19] Early retirement due to COVID-19 pandemic.
5 to be stored at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris with no plans to re-enter the fleet, and the other 5 to be scrapped. [21]
Boeing 707-320B 719601982 Airbus A300
11969NoneCrashed as flight AF212.
Boeing 707-320C 1119601984 Airbus A310
11968NoneCrashed as flight AF212.
Boeing 707-320 1719591979 Airbus A300
11976NoneF-BHSH was irreparably damaged by a bomb explosion. [22]
11961Crashed as flight AF272. [23]
11962Crashed as flight AF007.
11962Crashed as flight AF117.
Boeing 727-200 2919681992 Airbus A320-200
Boeing 737-200 2419732002
Boeing 737-300 919912004
Boeing 737-500 3019902007
Boeing 747-100 1819702000 Boeing 747-400
Boeing 747-200B 219792004 Boeing 777-300ER
Boeing 747-200F 1119762010 Boeing 747-400ERF
Boeing 747-200M 1319772005 Boeing 777-300ER
Boeing 747-200M/SUD 319902006Acquired from merged Union de Transports Aériens.
Converted from two 747-200M aircraft.
Boeing 747-300M 219912007Acquired from merged Union de Transports Aériens.
Boeing 747-400 1119912016 Airbus A380-800
Boeing 777-300ER
2 leased by Saudia.
4Converted into freighters and transferred to Air France Cargo.
Boeing 747-400BCF 420092011 Boeing 777F Converted from 747-400 passenger aircraft.
Boeing 747-400ERF 620022015
Boeing 747-400M 319922012 Boeing 777-300ER
Boeing 767-200ER 219911992 Airbus A330-200
Boeing 767-300ER 719912003
Bréguet 763 Deux-Ponts 1219521971Un­known
de Havilland Comet 319531954 Vickers Viscount 700
Dewoitine D.338 Un­known19361945(?)Un­known
Douglas DC-3 81 [24] 19461962Un­known
Douglas DC-4 45 [25] 19461971Un­known
Douglas DC-6 219491968Un­known
Fokker F27 Friendship 1719671997Un­known
Fokker F28 Fellowship 619771995Un­knownLeased from TAT European Airlines.
Fokker 100 619971999Un­known
Junkers Ju 52/3m Un­known19451953Un­known
Latécoère 631 41947Un­knownUn­knownThree aircraft were lost due to crashes, the F-BDRC and F-BDRD crashed in 1948, presumably due to material fatigue, and another was lost in 1950, so that Air France operated only one Latécoère 631 in the freight service until the early 1950s.
Lockheed L-049 Constellation 419461950 Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation
Lockheed L-749 Constellation 2419471961
Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation 2419531968 Lockheed L-1649A Starliner
Lockheed L-1649A Starliner 819571963 Boeing 707
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 119891991Un­knownLeased from Air Transat.
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 519921995Un­knownAcquired from Union des Transports Aériens (UTA).
SNCASE SE.161 Languedoc 4919451952Un­known
Sud-Ouest Bretagne Un­knownUn­knownUn­knownUn­known
Sud Aviation Caravelle 5019591981 Boeing 727-200
Transall C-160 419731991 Boeing 737-300QC Operated for La Poste.
Vickers Viscount 700 1619531962Un­knownFour Viscounts were leased from British Eagle.

Air France also briefly operated Convair 990 and Douglas DC-8-61 jet aircraft. [26] [27]

See also

References

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  2. "Medium-haul". Air France-KLM Group. 7 November 2014.
  3. "Cargo". Air France-KLM Group. 7 November 2014.
  4. "Seating Plans". Air France.
  5. 1 2 "Evolution of the Air France-KLM fleet". Air France KLM. 30 July 2019. Archived from the original on 15 November 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
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  8. 1 2 3 Entra in servizio il nuovo Airbus A220-300 di Air France
  9. Airbus Orders and Deliveries (XLS), monthly updated, accessed via "Orders & deliveries". Airbus. Airbus SAS. 3 April 2024.
  10. 1 2 3 4 "The Air France-KLM Group will place an order for 50 Airbus A350 family aircraft - with purchase rights for 40 additional aircraft - to accelerate the renewal of its long-haul fleet | AIR FRANCE KLM". www.airfranceklm.com (Press release). Retrieved 26 September 2023.
  11. "Air France takes delivery of its first A350 XWB". Airbus. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
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  14. Kaminski-Morrow2023-09-25T17:36:00+01:00, David. "Air France-KLM to order 50 A350s including -1000s". Flight Global. Retrieved 25 September 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  16. 1 2 flightglobal.com - Air France set for first 777-300ER 19 November 2002
  17. "The Air France-KLM Group takes a next step in optimization of the long-haul fleet". Air France-KLM (Press release). 28 June 2019. Archived from the original on 29 June 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  18. 1 2 "Air France-KLM scales down A350F order". Ch-Aviation. 11 March 2025.
  19. 1 2 "Air France to swap A380, A340 fleets for A350 with expanded order". 12 December 2019.
  20. "Air France dit adieu à son dernier quadriréacteur" [Air France says goodbye to its latest quadjet]. Air Journal (in French). 14 October 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  21. "Air France Retiring All Airbus A380s Immediately". Forbes. 20 May 2020.
  22. Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 707-328 F-BHSH Ajaccio-Campo dell'Oro Airport (AJA)". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  23. Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 707-328 F-BHSA Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel Airport (HAM)". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  24. "rzjets AF DC-3/C-47-fleet". www.rzjets.net.
  25. "rzjets AF DC-4-fleet". www.rzjets.net.
  26. "Modern Air Convair CV-990A in Air France colours on stand at London Heathrow (photo)". Flight International: 656. 27 April 1967. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  27. Photos of Air France aircraft