Where Air France's new business class flies this summer
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Many people after reading My take on Air France's new business class cabins. I was written to find out. On which routes you can find this configuration, which I recall is on the last A350s delivered to the French carrier and on all (except 2) 777/300s outfitted without the La Premiere cabin.
Where Air France's new cabins fly.
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The launch of new booths, started at the end of 2022, plans to reconfigure the Boeing 777-300ERs and Airbus A350-900s in the fleet today will continue unabated throughout the summer. The changes are not only for business class passengers, but for the whole plane so also premium economy and economy.
Today you can find these planes on these routes: New York-JFK, New York-Newark, Washington DC, Boston, Houston, Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok, Dakar, Tokyo-Haneda, Hong Kong, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai, and Johannesburg.
The following will also be added over the summer Toronto, Chicago, Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Papeete, Mexico, and Tokyo-Narita.
(ed. note that not all flights are necessarily operated with these aircraft, and machine changes can always occur)
New routes kicking off this summer
In the summer of 2024, Air France will grow again to North America, the real golden goose of all carriers partly because of the freedom of carriers, European and American, to open as many routes as they want thanks to Open Skies trade agreements. This summer Air France will fly to the United States more than 210 times a week, for a total of 17 destinations, while they will be Nearly 60 connections to in 5 Canadian cities. The airline's total long-haul capacity will increase by 9% compared to 2023.
There will also be Two special flights that will connect Nice with Los Angeles., during the week of the Cannes Film Festival, two connections that AF will of course operate with its flagship A350/900.
Notable changes include the resumption of flights to Minneapolis (Minnesota), with a daily flight, the inauguration of a direct connection between Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Phoenix (Arizona), 3 times a week aboard a Boeing 787-9, and the increase in flights to Raleigh-Durham (North Carolina) inaugurated in winter 2023, which becomes daily.
In addition to the growth of the North American network, the airline's major plans for summer 2024 also include:
Extension of daily Abu Dhabi service introduced in winter 2023 until October 2024, resumes direct Dar Es Salam (Tanzania) service with 3 weekly flights as Zanzibar continuation.
Increase flights to Japan with two daily flights true Tokyo Haneda and 4 weekly on Tokyo Narita.
Increased frequencies on major routes in Africa and the Indian Ocean. Cotonou (Benin) and Antananarivo (Madagascar) will now enjoy daily flights. There will be two daily flights to Cameroon, split between Yaoundé and Douala. And flights to Brazzaville (Republic of Congo) will now be aboard an Airbus A350-900.
Short and medium haul: 102 destinations
In addition to the usual schedule of flights, Air France will operate 45 seasonal routes in France and Europe. Three new routes will be introduced departing from Paris-Charles de Gaulle, to:
- Verona, up to 3 flights per week from April 2
- Narvik-Lofoten (Norway), 1 flight every Saturday from June 15 to Aug. 31
- Kalamata (Greece), 1 flight every Saturday from July 6 to Aug. 31
Flights to Tromsø (Norway), until now available only in winter, will be extended during the summer, with up to 2 flights per week from Paris-Charles de Gaulle, aboard the Airbus A319.
Not to mention that, Air France-KLM Group's low-cost subsidiary, Transavia France, will fly to 116 destinations in 33 countries through 206 routes.
