Air France abandons Transavia Europe plans - minister
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The Air France logo is seen on the Air France headquarters building at the Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Roissy, near Paris on the second week of a strike by Air France pilots September 22, 2014. SNPL, the main French pilots union, on Monday rejected a management proposal for an end to a week-old Air France pilots strike, calling the plan a "smoke screen" that offered no new guarantees and did not resolve any of the disputes involved. Earlier on Monday, Air France-KLM's top managers offered to postpone the roll-out of its low-cost operation Transavia outside France and the Netherlands until the end of the year in a bid to end the strike costing it millions of euros a day. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen
PARIS (Reuters) - Air France is withdrawing plans to develop its Transavia Europe budget unit that are at the heart of a labour dispute with pilots, French Transport Minister Alain Vidalies told RMC radio on Wednesday.
"The Transavia Europe project has been abandoned," he said. "It isn't suspended for three months, it's been withdrawn by management."
Air France was not immediately reachable for comment.
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