Air France - Book a flight

Review by eFreeware

Air travel involves a lot of small tasks that have to happen in the right order. You book a ticket, pick a seat, check in, keep track of delays, and somewhere in between you try to remember how many miles you have. Each of those steps used to mean a separate phone call or website visit. The Air France app, published by AIRFRANCE S.A., is the airline's attempt to fold all of it into one place on your phone.

It is a free download in the Travel & Local category, with no advertising and no in-app purchases, and it has been on Google Play since early 2014. The install base is substantial, over 5 million, and the average rating sits at 4.4 from more than 164,000 ratings. That combination suggests an app that a lot of people keep installed rather than delete after one trip.

One place for the parts of a trip

The app is built around the idea of a travel assistant that follows you through a journey rather than doing one job. Booking is the starting point: you can buy a ticket to any of the airline's destinations and pay with a secure payment method. If you save your contact details to your profile, future bookings arrive with those fields already filled in, which removes some of the repetitive typing.

From there the app moves through the practical stages. Boarding passes, seat choice and check-in all live in the app. Notifications can be switched on for flight updates and for content about where you are going. You can also pass your flight status along to family or friends who are waiting for you, which is a small feature that saves a round of text messages.

Managing a booking is handled in the same place. Ticket conditions can be reviewed, contact details changed, and last-minute adjustments made without going back to a browser. The recent update pushes this further: if a flight changes, you can sort out a hotel booking or switch to a different airport or station from within the app, and the boarding pass now stays pinned at the top of the screen so it is the first thing you see.

Booking with more context before you pay

The October 2026 update added a comparison step before purchase, so you can weigh flights against each other rather than committing to the first option you find. That is a meaningful addition for anyone whose dates are flexible, because the cheapest or most convenient routing is not always the obvious one.

Paris Stopover packages from Extime Travel also arrived in the same update, offered while you book. For travelers passing through Paris, that gives the app a way to turn a layover into part of the trip rather than dead time, and it is the kind of option that is easy to miss when booking through a generic travel site.

Beyond the ticket itself, the app lets you add extra travel options to a booking with a click. The developer points to meals, seats and lounge access as examples. These are the details that often get decided at the last minute, so having them available in the same flow as the booking is convenient.

Miles, status and the Flying Blue side

Frequent flyers get a dedicated area for their Flying Blue account. You can check your miles balance, book a rewards flight, edit your profile, and pull up a virtual Flying Blue card. For anyone who collects miles, that last item is the practical one: the card lives on the phone instead of in a wallet.

Booking a rewards flight from the app matters more than it might seem. Being able to check and act on a rewards flight without leaving the app keeps the process short. The same applies to profile changes, which are the sort of thing you only remember when you are already mid-trip.

Traveling with a child who flies alone

The Kids Solo service gets its own place in the app. If your child is traveling alone under this program, you can track and manage their journey from your phone. For a parent, that is the difference between waiting for a phone call and actually seeing where things stand.

It is a narrow feature, but it is aimed at a specific and often anxious situation, and its inclusion says something about who the app is built for. This is not a general-purpose flight tracker; it is the airline's own tool for its own passengers, and the features line up with that.

What it asks of you, and where it stays narrow

The app is free, carries no ads and offers no in-app purchases, so there is no upsell layer sitting between you and your booking. The value on offer is tied to Air France flights and the Flying Blue program, so the app makes most sense if that is who you fly with.

Some features depend on you doing a little setup. Notifications have to be turned on before flight updates and destination content arrive, and saving your contact information to your profile is what makes future bookings prefill. Neither is difficult, but they are the kind of steps that determine how much the app actually does for you.

Suited to Air France passengers who want the trip in one place

The clearest audience here is someone who flies Air France with any regularity and wants booking, check-in, boarding passes, flight updates and miles in a single app. If your travel already runs through this airline, the app covers most of what you would otherwise do across a website and a few emails.

It also fits two narrower groups. Parents using the Kids Solo service get tracking for a child flying alone, and Flying Blue members get a quick way to check miles and book rewards flights. Both are specific needs that the app addresses directly rather than as an afterthought.

The install numbers and the 4.4 average suggest that this approach works for a large number of travelers. The app is not trying to be a universal travel tool, and it does not need to be; it is the airline's own companion for its own passengers, and it is judged on that basis.

A dependable companion for Air France trips

I would install this if Air France is my airline and I want the practical parts of a trip handled from my phone. Booking, check-in, boarding passes, flight updates, booking changes and Flying Blue miles are all here, and the recent additions around rebooking, hotel cancelation and flight comparison make it more useful when plans go wrong.

The trade-off is that its usefulness is tied to the airline and its loyalty program. For travelers whose flights run through Air France, that is not much of a limitation; it is simply the shape of the app. Free, ad-free and with no in-app purchases, it is an easy thing to keep on the phone for the next trip.

What's new in version 26.0.0

Handle the unexpected and plan ahead. If your flight changes, cancel a hotel booking or rebook to a nearby airport/station, right in the app. Your boarding pass now stays at the top of the screen. Compare flights before you buy, and discover Extime Travel's Paris Stopover packages in booking. This update also includes bug fixes and performance improvements. Something not working as expected? Share your feedback. We'd love to hear from you. Thanks for using the Air France app!