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Air France is responding to sustained demand by pushing forward with the expansion of its global network.

Long-haul: Capacity up 9%. Flights to 85 destinations.

Come summer 2024, North America will be seeing even more of Air France. The airline is:

• Resuming flights to Minneapolis (Minnesota), with one daily flight.
• Inaugurating a new direct service between Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Phoenix (Arizona), 3 times a week aboard a Boeing 787-9.
• Extending the direct service to Raleigh-Durham (North Carolina) it inaugurated in winter 2023, and upping the number of weekly flights to 7, from 3 during the winter season.

For the Cannes Film Festival, Air France will operate 2 special flights between Los Angeles (USA) and Nice (France), on Airbus A350-900s equipped with the latest travel cabins. This summer, Air France will fly to the United States over 210 times a week, serving a total of 17 destinations[1]. It will also operate close to 60 fights to 5 Canadian cities[2].

Alongside growing its North American network, the airline’s major plans for summer 2024 also include:

• Extending the daily Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) service from Paris-Charles de Gaulle it introduced in winter 2023 through the summer of 2024.
• Resuming the direct Dar Es Salam (Tanzania) service it inaugurated in summer 2023, with 3 weekly flights as a continuation of Zanzibar.
• More flights to Japan, including 2 daily flights between Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Tokyo-Haneda, plus its service to Tokyo-Narita with 4 flights a week.
• Increased frequencies on key African and Indian Ocean routes. Cotonou (Benin) and Antananarivo (Madagascar) will now enjoy daily flights. There will be two daily flights to Cameroon, shared between Yaoundé and Douala. And flights to Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo) will now be aboard an Airbus A350-900.

The airline’s total long-haul capacity will rise by 9% versus 2023.

Rollout of new travel cabins aboard Boeing 777-300ERs and Airbus A350-900s continues unabated

Air France’s ongoing refurbishment of its 777-300ERs and Airbus A350-900s with the latest long-haul cabins will continue throughout the summer. This new product, available in Business, Premium Economy and Economy models, forms the cornerstone of the airline’s new travel experience.

After New York-JFK, New York-Newark, Washington DC, Boston, Houston, Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok, Dakar, Tokyo-Haneda, Hong Kong, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai and Johannesburg, these new cabins will be introduced this summer on flights to Toronto, Chicago, Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Papeete, Mexico and Tokyo-Narita.

Short- and medium-haul: 102 destinations. 45 seasonal routes in France and Europe.

In addition to its usual flight schedule, Air France will operate 45 seasonal routes in France and Europe. Three new routes will be introduced on departure from Paris-Charles de Gaulle, to: 

• Verona (Italy), up to 3 flights a week as of April 2
• Narvik-Lofoten (Norway), 1 flight every Saturday from June 15 to August 31
• Kalamata (Greece), 1 flight every Saturday from July 6 to August 31

Flights to Tromsø (Norway), until now available only in winter, will be extended through the summer, with up to 2 flights a week from Paris-Charles de Gaulle, on Airbus A319.

Meanwhile, Air France-KLM Group’s low-cost subsidiary, Transavia France, will fly to 116 destinations in 33 countries via 206 routes. Once again, it will be the top low-cost airline operating out of Paris’ airports.

Detailed flight times, days and fares are available on airfrance.com and transavia.com.

Here are the highlights of Air France's summer program in Canada.

Number of peak summer season flights:

• 4 daily flights from Montreal, departing at 5pm, 7pm, 9pm, and 11pm.
• 2 daily flights from Toronto.
• The Ottawa-Paris route, launched with 5 flights per week in 2023, will become daily starting on June 17th with an Airbus A 350.
• The Quebec-Paris direct flight returns for a 3rd season.
• The Vancouver-Paris flight will be daily between July 1st and September 1st.

In total, Air France will offer 59 flights per week for summer 2024.

In addition, KLM will offer a total of 39 flights per week from Canada:

• 2 daily flights from Toronto.
• Daily flights from Montreal, Calgary, and Vancouver.
• 4 flights per week from Edmonton.

The Air France KLM Group will offer a total of 98 flights per week from Canada in 2024 compared to 95 in 2023.