The Compagnie générale transaérienne (CGT: General Trans-Air Company) was a predecessor of Air France, founded in 1909.

At first it operated airships in France and Switzerland, then added float planes and direct flights from Paris to London.

[2] The Compagnie générale transaérienne was the second civil airline founded in Europe, and was owned by Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe.

[1] On 22 March 1913 GGT started the world's first scheduled passenger-carrying flights, operating at least one Astra CM Hydro-avion from Cannes to Nice.

On 15 April 1913 Gabriel Arnaud, director of CGT, visited Arcachon to study organization of a local aerospace committee.

[13] CGT acquired seven Nieuport-Delage NiD 30 biplanes which it put into service on the Le Bourget to Croydon route in September 1920.