Air France Chief Executive

Alexandre de Juniac's exit as chief executive officer of Air France-KLM Group leaves the company with the unenviable task of finding a successor prepared to face down unions in one of Europe's bitterest labor disputes while offering little in way of enticement.

Air France said today it had taken legal action after the discovery of a fake bomb on board a flight from Mauritius to Paris that prompted an emergency landing in Kenya.

A suspicious device found on an Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris that prompted an emergency landing was harmless and caused a "false alarm", the airline's chief executive said on Sunday.

Air France chief executive Frederic Gagey said today that a bomb scare that prompted one of the airline's planes to make an emergency landing in Kenya had been a "false alarm".

Alexandre de Juniac's exit as chief executive officer of Air France-KLM Group leaves the company with the unenviable task of finding a successor prepared to face down unions in one of Europe's bitterest labor disputes while offering little in way of enticement.

Air France said today it had taken legal action after the discovery of a fake bomb on board a flight from Mauritius to Paris that prompted an emergency landing in Kenya.

A suspicious device found on an Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris that prompted an emergency landing was harmless and caused a "false alarm", the airline's chief executive said on Sunday.

Air France chief executive Frederic Gagey said today that a bomb scare that prompted one of the airline's planes to make an emergency landing in Kenya had been a "false alarm".