Numbers quoted for AF are about right....
Apart from the very senior guys in BA and LH, AF's flightcrew are the highest paid in Europe....And previously they got to keep a large percentage of their gross because of a rather special tax law here for flightcrew...Something which dated back quite a few years when AF was still wholly state owned and was a typical French Industrial Relations compromise - no salary increase but a reduced personal tax bill....
However, Pshyco Sarko has recently cancelled this particular tax law and both local flightcrews and the many BA/VS and freelance flightcrews who have elected for French tax residency will have considerably higher personal tax bills from 2009 onwards...