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Delta will each operate two daily departures. Code-share agreements with Delta will also allow Air France to offer an additional daily fl ight from CDG to Boston, taking the total number of daily services to three. Meanwhile, Air France will add a seventh daily fl ight from CDG to New York JFK.
New routes across the globe Besides the development of the airline’s transatlantic services, the Air France network is welcoming a number of new destinations, including Aarlborg, Bata, Billund, Freetown, Lima, Miami, Monrovia, Orlando, Phnom Penh and Xiamen.
The three times weekly service to Phnom Penh will be operated via Bangkok, and the airline will also add a single weekly fl ight to Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean, giving a total of three a week. In Africa, two A330- operated fl ights per week will serve Freetown, Sierra Leone, along with the same number
of A330-operated fl ights to Monrovia, Liberia via Conakry, Guinea.
The summer schedule also enhances the Americas route network, with a three times weekly service to Orlando. In addition, Air France will operate to Lima fi ve times a week and to Santiago six times weekly. Finally, for the medium-haul network, the airline will offer a thrice-weekly service to Billund, Denmark, fi ve daily fl ights (as opposed to four) from CDG to Moscow and Bilbao, Spain, plus an additional weekly fl ight to Yerevan, Armenia, bringing the total to four.
Fleet upgrades
The increase in the long-haul capacity this summer is made possible partly by Air France’s introduction of the A380 on its CDG–New York, Johannesburg and Tokyo routes. The aircraft will also begin operating on the CDG–Montréal and Washington DC routes by the end of the summer. The introduction of the A380 on these services will allow Air France to decrease its weekly frequency on CDG–Montréal from 28 to 20, when the aircraft begins fl ying this route from April 22; while the
weekly frequency of CDG–Washington DC fl ights will fall from 21 to 14 from June 6. Beyond the summer schedule, the airline may also introduce the A380 on routes to Mexico and Beijing.
Along with the induction of the A380 is an upgrade of Air France’s Boeing 777-200ER fl eet, of which the airline operates 25. This aircraft previously had 247 seats, which included 170 in Voyageur (economy) class. This will now be replaced by an interior accommodating 309 seats, including 250 places in Voyageur. During the 2011 summer schedule, these aircraft will serve Guangzhou, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Osaka, Santiago and Lima. Looking beyond the 2011
summer schedule, the airline will also commence new services from CDG to the Caribbean, principally to Martinique and Guadeloupe, with twice-weekly Boeing 777-200ER services.
Challenging times
The performance of Air France’s summer schedule and the new routes will be watched with interest by the global airline industry. The company is
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