2023-07-15 16:38:27
Transatlantic skies will be blue-white-red this winter. Air France announced, on July 12, a reinforcement of its North American offer for the end of the year.
New Paris-Raleigh link
First novelty, the national company will add a destination to your table: Raleigh-Durham airport (North Carolina). Three direct flights will take place each week (Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays) from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle from October 30, 2023, specifies Air France in a press release. The 279-seat aircraft will depart from Paris in the early followingnoon (1:30 p.m.) arriving at RDU at 4:35 p.m. local time. Flights in the other direction will take off at 6:45pm and land at 8:25 the following day.
A hotspot for research with its concentration of universities, the capital of North Carolina is Air France’s fourteenth destination on American soil following Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles , Miami, New York JFK, New York Newark, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington DC.
Pre-pandemic record broken
In addition to this new destination, the company plans to increase its flights between Roissy and Dallas-Fort Worth (Texas). During the winter, five weekly connections will be offered per week compared to three last year. Paris-Montreal and Paris-Vancouver will also be more frequent. They will go from seventeen to twenty-one and from three to five respectively.
Bonus for Montrealers: Air France also plans to resume its seasonal service between the Quebec city and Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe) with two flights per week on Tuesdays and Saturdays from December 2, 2023.
These announcements confirm the rebound of the transatlantic market three years following the start of the pandemic. According to Airlines for America (A4A), an airline advocacy group, 4,353 transatlantic flights are scheduled per week in July, 115 more than the July 2019 record. air traffic controllers decide otherwise.
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