With thirteen years of experience at Air France-KLM, Florence Calla takes over as Regional Director Indian Ocean in the French Sales Department in September 2023. She replaces Claire Tabakian.
Florence Calla joined Air France in 1999, in the West Africa sales and marketing department in Dakar. In 2000, he was appointed to Paris as managerial information manager for the Americas before taking on the position of Sales Director for Central Africa, based in Libreville.
In 2006, he returned to Paris to serve as head of Air France-KLM’s international sales distribution policy before being appointed director of Air France KLM in Hong Kong & Macau in 2007.
In 2012, based in Amsterdam, Florence Calla joined North America Joint Venture Pricing. Then in 2016, he was responsible for sales performance for Europe, North America, India, the Gulf and the Middle East.
Since 2019, he has served as regional sales director of Grand-Ouest in mainland France.
At the age of 47, he graduated from the École Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales d’Angers (ESSCA).
Florence Calla says: “I am very happy to be joining the Indian Ocean team. With the arrival of the A350 this summer in Madagascar and soon in Mauritius, as well as complementary flights to Orly and Charles de Gaulle from Reunion, the attractiveness of our offer has been significantly strengthened. A tremendous asset to carry the Air France colors even higher.”
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