[2] From 1980 to 1983, Janaillac was chief of staff for the prefects of Finistère (Brittany in western France) and then Val-d'Oise (Île-de-France).
[4] He then joined AOM French Airlines and served from 1997 to 2000, first as executive vice-president then as chief operating officer.
[3] From 2000 to 2002, he was chairman and chief executive officer of Maeva, a vacation residence company belonging to the Pierre & Vacances group.
The company had a good year in 2017 but a difficult first quarter in 2018 and staff and management were again locked in a dispute over pay increases starting in February 2018.
Janaillac proposed a 7% wage increase over 4 years instead of the immediate 6% requested by the unions and, in order to obtain direct approval from the staff, asked for vote, warning that he would resign if his offer was rejected.