On November 28, Air France/KLM Group launched a seed fund and incubator aimed at helping innovators bring their ideas to life and hopefully make travel a little easier, better, friendlier, and funnier.

BigBlank, the group's new subsidiary, considered itself as a "startup studio" aimed at helping entrepreneurs who are determined to drastically redesign the travel experience. Once the incubator finds suitably innovative nascent projects, the team works with the entrepreneurs for 12 to 18 months to bring the product or idea off the page and into the market, and participants are granted access to the airline group's expertise, technologies, and customer insights. BigBlank reportedly aims to launch its first startup by early spring.