The airline tells #HNNTravel that flight attendants reserve the right to withdraw from a flight if they deem the destination harmful to them or their lives.
Air France serves more west Africa destinations than any other major carrier.
It has given its staff freedom to choose whether or not they want to fly to Conakry, Freetown and Lagos after British Airways and Emirates suspended flights to the region.
Ebola has killed 1,229 people so far this year in west Africa, the worst outbreak ever of the virus.
Air France operates daily flights to Guinea and Nigeria and a service three times a week to Sierra Leone.
On Monday, one Air France union, SNGAF, launched a petition calling for the "immediate end to flights to countries hit by the Ebola virus".
"We know that our jobs put us at risk, but they are measured risks. This is completely out of control and the information is not the same from one day to the next," said Sophie Gorins, the secretary-general of the SNPNC, which represents cabin crew.
She said that hygiene measures implemented so far were "stop-gap" and that crew had "no idea if we are carrying a victim or if we ourselves are carriers of the virus".
With Files from AIT
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