Air France-Klm's maxi summer: all flights from Italy to long-haul
The Air France-Klm Group will fly almost everywhere during the 2023 summer season with a network of connections now reaching [...]
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The Air France-Klm Group will fly almost everywhere during the 2023 summer season with a Network of connections now reaching 2019 levels, the last year before the Covid pandemic, allowing Italian travelers. convenient connections from domestic airports through the hubs of Paris Charles de Gaulle e Amsterdam Schiphol.
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Air France and flights in Italy
To reach the two airports, in fact, the French-Dutch Group's offer is distributed from North to South Italy, as per tradition. Air France, in fact, flies from Milan Malpensa and Linate, Turin, Bologna and Venice in northern Italy.
The Center is served by direct connections departing from Rome Fiumicino, Florence and Naples (where it just celebrated 60 years of direct flights). From the south and the islands, finally, AF has an operation that has grown with seasonal routes covering Bari, Catania, Palermo, Olbia and Cagliari.
KLM's Italian airports
For Dutch airline Klm, however, summer connections to Italy include direct flights from Catania in Sicily and Cagliari in Sardinia, to which are added the routes on Milan Malpensa and Linate, Turin and Venice.
The flight offer also includes the airports of Genoa, Bologna and Florence, as well as Rome Fiumicino, of course.
Air France's long haul
For the 2023 summer season (April through October) Air France will fly up to 835 times a day, to 191 destinations in 89 countries. AF's long haul is characterized by an increase in flights to Asia, North America and East Africa and highlights include routes to Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania) and Ottawa (Canada) from Paris-Charles de Gaulle, and to Belém (Brazil) from Cayenne (French Guiana).
In addition, the resumption of service to China-thanks to the Asian giant's reopening to travel and tourism-will spark a return to more flights to Asia.
Flights to Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong will gradually increase to one daily flight per destination by July 1, or 21 weekly flights. Also in Asia, Air France will continue to increase capacity towards Tokyo (Japan), where the company serves both airports (up to 11 flights per week to Tokyo Haneda and 3 to Tokyo Narita).
The airline then added more flights to the North America and during the summer will operate up to 180 weekly flights to/from 14 U.S. destinations (including connections to New York Jfk and Newark), as well as 50 flights to five Canadian cities. The airline will resume flights between Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Quebec City May 2, 2023 and will introduce a new Paris-Charles-de Gaulle flight-.Ottawa May 27.
Already very active in Africa throughout the pandemic, Air France now continues to maintain seat capacity above 2019 levels on the continent. Starting June 12, 2023, flights will take off. for Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania) with three weekly frequencies on Boeing 787-9s.
Finally, in the Caribbean, Air France will inaugurate a new flight on May 5, 2023, connecting Cayenne (French Guiana) and Belém (Brazil), once a week with Airbus A320s.
Air France's European connections
There are 106 destinations in France and Europe that the transalpine airline will operate throughout the summer. In addition to its regular schedule, in fact, Air France will operate 66 seasonal routes across the continent, taking off from Paris and French regional airports. These flights will provide access to the Corsica (from Paris, Bordeaux, Caen, Rennes, Lille, Lyon and Nantes), the Greece (from Paris, Marseille, Nice and Toulouse), theAlgeria (from Paris, Marseille, Nice and Toulouse), the Morocco (from Paris and Nice) and also the Tunisia (from Paris, Marseille and Nice).
Also Transavia France, AF-Klm Group's low-cost rib, will operate nearly 200 short- and medium-haul routes to 120 destinations this summer, including 100 to/from Paris-Orly.
KLM doubles down in Asia
KLM airline, on the other hand, offers 163 destinations - 96 European and 67 intercontinental - throughout the summer season with a major expansion of the Asian network, doubling the number of flights compared to 2022.
The carrier will fly from Amsterdam Schiphol to 16 Asian destinations in summer 2023: these include daily services to Beijing and Shanghai and return operations-three times a week-to Hong Kong and twice a week to Taipei via Incheon (South Korea).
In Japan, KLM operates twice-weekly flights to Osaka via Incheon (South Korea) and three weekly flights to theTokyo Narita Airport, also via Incheon. In addition, there is a twice-weekly direct service to Tokyo. Frequency on this route will increase in September to five direct flights per week to Tokyo.
KLM also serves Denpasar and Jakarta (Indonesia) via Singapore, Manila (Philippines) five times a week via Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), and daily direct connections to Delhi and Mumbai (India) and five weekly flights to Bangalore.
Flights to the Americas and the Caribbean
In North America, then, KLM operates flights to 18 destinations: in the U.S. the planned routes are to New York, Atlanta, Austin, Washington, Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. In addition, the network increases with 13 weekly flights to Toronto in Canada, up from 10 flights last year - and services to Edmonton, Montreal, and Vancouver continue.
The new class KLM Premium Comfort, finally, is available on flights to New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Austin, Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, and Calgary.
For the Caribbean area, the Dutch company operates. daily flights to Curaçao and to the islands of Aruba and Bonaire. Paramaribo will be served by six weekly flights, and KLM will also operate three weekly services to Port of Spain and Sint Maarten.
Ten destinations in South America are served by the Amsterdam hiub, including daily routes to São Paulo (Brazil), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Panama City (Panama). Flights to Costa Rica will operate according to the winter schedule until mid-May, with three weekly flights to San Jose in combination with Liberia (Costa Rica).
Middle East and Africa
With regardto connections with the Middle East, Finally, a daily service will be operated from Holland to Dubai and Tel Aviv (Israel). Tel Aviv will be operated with Boeing 777 widebody. KLM also operates a daily flight to Kuwait, four times a week in combination with Bahrain and three times a week in combination with Muscat.
Finally, there are ten destinations served in Africa. Among them, Zanzibar will be served by two weekly flights in combination with Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. In addition, there will be daily services to Nairobi, Nigeria, Cape Town and Johannesburg (South Africa).
Finally, KLM's summer news in Europe is the extension of the route to Nantes (again from Amsterdam Schiphol) into the summer as well, which will be served by three daily flights. Since the beginning of the summer schedule, there has also been a daily service to Rennes, the regional capital of Brittany.
