French Bee Wants to Succeed Where Others Have Failed
French Bee President Marc Rochet is confident the airline's upcoming Newark-Orly flights will be successful, because the key to the airline's wins so far is its simplicity, he said. But will it work? Rochet said simplicity — in fleet, in network, in product — is why the airline is working when so many other European leisure carriers have failed.
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