In light of OVERTALK's explanation at post 344 of the airspeed discrepancies, wonder if Air France are just wasting their francs doing this (changing pitot probes): (i.e. I suspect that they ARE)
Well, AF decided to change these probes before the accident due to previous incidents. In fact Airbus pitot probes were already redesign in the 90s as they were already involved in airspeed discreapencies while flying in heavy precipitations or freezing conditions, sometimes leading to AP/ATHR disconnections, F/CTL ADR disagree and F/CTL ALTN LAW.
This problem is basically known and documented by Airbus since 95...