More flights, new routes: France

The US is rising as the spot of the summer for people today in France, as flight reservations increase and airlines insert new routes. 

Flight comparison sites are viewing six periods extra interest from persons wanting for US flights this 12 months in comparison to 2021, Le Journal du Dimanche studies. Even so, a sizeable increase was to be predicted, taking into consideration that US borders remained closed to travelers until eventually November. 

This renewed interest is prompting airways to incorporate new locations to their providing. Low-cost, extended-haul airline French Bee has just included a new Paris-Orly – Los Angeles route, with president Marc Rochet expressing: “We will commence with three weekly return journeys, then go up to 6 more than the summer time.” 

French Bee by now features flights from Paris to New York and San Francisco, and will be opening a Miami route in December.

Transatlantic flights are also remaining provided by the new small-cost Icelandic airline, Enjoy, which was launched in June 2021 and resumed its US-sure flights very last 7 days. 

Perform presents a route amongst Paris and the US which features a “coffee break” halt off in Reykjavik. In this article, travellers will disembark and then board a different plane headed either for Washington or New York.

Yet another airline, French operator La Compagnie, will be boosting its US-France offering to 7 weekly flights in between Paris and New York next week. 

La Compagnie’s CEO Christian Vernet stated that “72{6932ee47e64f4ce8eedbbd5224581f6531cba18a35225771c06e4f1b3f0d9667} of the tickets we market are in the US. They are mostly prospects travelling for tourism but also businesspeople who have started to journey a great deal far more once again.” 

Because US borders reopened, airways have greater their every month transatlantic featuring by 21{6932ee47e64f4ce8eedbbd5224581f6531cba18a35225771c06e4f1b3f0d9667} to 2,200.

This summer, Air France will be operating as quite a few transatlantic flights as its fleet can manage, and has by now recruited new pilots and mechanics for the goal.

“We will even be managing extra flights than in 2019,” explained the company’s US programme director, Olivier Piette.

There will be 200 return flights to 14 unique places each individual 7 days, such as a New York ‘shuttle’ operated in conjunction with Delta and featuring 8 flights for every day.

At last, American company United Airlines is now presenting each day flights concerning Good and Newark-Liberty in New Jersey till September. The company leaves Awesome at 12:10 and arrives in the US at 15:45, with return flights taking off at 19:55.

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