from another thread
I was working on a project for KLM at the time of the merger and most of the things they had to say about AF and the French would earn me an instant ban here if repeated.
What a difference in attitude between the French, inefficient, bureaucratic, hidebound (on l'a toujours fait comme ca.....) lazy, devious, arrogant, a massive sense of entitlement, monoglot, and confrontational, and the Dutch, professional, positive, straightforward, multilingual, and always looking for solutions rather than obstacles.
now the French...
A French court has ruled that Irish low cost airline Ryanair must pay 8.1m euros (£6.4m) in damages and 200,000 euros in fines for breaches of French labour laws.
brilliant, they've buggered up their own national airline and therefore it's logical to ensure that the Irish can't step in to show them how to operate