French ambition

When in the autumn of 1997 former Air Inter boss, Jean-Cyril Spinetta, was air dropped into the chief executive's seat of Air France, prospective investors were anxious. Competitors rubbed their hands. Christian Blanc, the man assigned to turn the carrier's fortunes around, had resigned over the incoming left-wing government's refusal ...

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