The tricolor company will fly its entire fleet between November and March. It is targeting the Americas in particular, with the upcoming opening of the Paris-Newark line.
Air France’s capacity will be close to its 2019 level this winter | Photo credits: © Air France
After a summer of 2022 which confirmed that the desire to travel is intact and strong, Air France has decided to continue the reopening of its global network. Despite inflation and the looming recession, the airline has decided to fly its entire fleet of planes for the upcoming winter season, which runs from November to March. ” The level of capacity across the entire network will be close to that of winter 2019 “, Indicates the tricolor carrier. It will serve 171 destinations – 86 on long-haul and 85 on short and medium-haul. Among them, five new ones, including Casablanca in Morocco departing from Paris-Orly, and Newark, not far from New York, departing from Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport.
The United States is a key market. The strong dollar is very clearly a godsend for American tourists, who flock en masse to Europe, especially to the City of Lights. During the presentation of the half-year results at the end of July, the CEO of Air France-KLM, Ben Smith, hailed ” tauxdand filling [qui] reach unprecedented levels and yields [qui] are much higher than in 2019 on the United States. ” On December 12, 2022, Air France will inaugurate a daily direct link between its Paris-Charles de Gaulle hub and New York-Newark Liberty (…) airport in a Boeing 777-200 ER “, Underlines, this Tuesday, the company, which claims the first place on the axis Paris-New York.
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Sign of a return to normal life, Air France will resume, in a little over a month, its flights to Cape Town, South Africa, more than two years after having suspended them due to Covid. On the other side of the planet, in Japan, five flights are provided each week to Tokyo-Haneda airport. From a passenger comfort point of view, Air France embarked a few years ago on a vast project to upgrade its long-haul aircraft. It is gradually installing a new Business seat on 12 Boeing 777-300 ERs, which comes in the form of a real flat bed nearly 2 meters long. With, as a bonus, a sliding door allowing you to completely privatize your own space, thus preserving it from the rest of the cabin. ” The first flight will take place in the coming weeks to New York-JFK “, welcomes the company.
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