For summer 2024, Air France will serve 189 destinations in 74 countries, including new service from Paris-Charles de Gaulle to Phoenix (Arizona, USA), Verona (Italy), Kalamata (Greece), and Narvik-Lofoten (Norway).
On Monday (March 18, 2024), Air France announced an expansion of their summer 2024 schedule as well as the continued rollout of their new long-haul cabins. This summer, the carrier will offer service to 189 destinations in 74 countries, including long-haul service to 85 destinations, a year-over-year increase in capacity of 9.0 percent. In North America, Air France will resume daily service to Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP), and will also launch new service between Paris (CDG) and Phoenix, Arizona in the U.S., with three weekly flights aboard a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. Service to Raleigh Durham, North Carolina (RDU) will also be extended for the summer season, with weekly flights increasing compared to winter 2023/24 from three to seven.
This year, for the Cannes Film Festival, Air France will operate two special flights between Los Angeles (LAX) and Nice (NCE), which will be operated with Airbus A350-900s, equipped with the carrier’s latest cabins. For summer 2024, the carrier will offer 210 weekly flights to 17 U.S. destinations, as well as close to 60 weekly flights to five Canadian cities. Daily service between Paris-CDG and Abu Dhabi, originally introduced in winter 2023/24, will also be extended for the summer season. Additionally, Air France will resume direct service to Dar Es Salam (Tanzania) with three weekly flight as a continuation from Zanzibar.
Air France will also offer more flight to Japan this summer, including two daily services between Paris-CDG and Tokyo-Haneda, plus four weekly flights to Tokyo-Narita. Frequencies on select African and Indian Ocean routes will also be increased, with daily service to Cotonou (Benin) and Antananarivo (Madagascar), as well as double-daily flights to Cameroon, shared between Yaoundé and Douala. Additionally, flights to Brazzaville (Republic of Congo) will now be served with an Airbus A350-900.
As previously mentioned, Air France’s long-haul cabin refresh on their Boeing 777-300ERs and A350-900s will continue to rollout throughout summer. The new product, available in Business, Premium Economy and Economy Class cabins, forms the cornerstone of Air France’s new travel experience. Following the rollout on aircraft serving 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 new cabins will be introduced this summer on flights to Toronto, Chicago, Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Papeete, Mexico and Tokyo-Narita.
Air France will also serve short and medium-haul routes to 102 destinations this summer, including 45 seasonal routes across France and Europe. Complementing the carrier’s usual flight schedule, Air France will introduce new service from Paris-CDG to Verona, Italy with three weekly flights starting April 2nd, and one weekly flight to Narvik-Lofoten, Norway on Saturdays from June 15th through August 31, 2024. Also new for summer 2024, Air France will offer one weekly Saturday flight between Paris-CDG and Kalamata, Greece, which will operate from July 6th through August 31, 2024.
Previously only available for winter, Air France will extend service from Paris-CDG to Tromsø in Norway this summer, with up to two weekly flights aboard an Airbus A319. Additionally, Transavia France will operate 206 routes across 116 destinations in 33 countries this summer.
Source: Air France