The Air France summer schedule (25 March – 28 October 2012)

• Stable capacity, + 0.1% on long-haul and +0.2% on medium-haul excluding the provincial bases
• Wuhan, fifth destination in China
• An offensive and reactive strategy on departure from the French regions

For its summer schedule, Air France is adapting to changing market conditions and is offering stable capacity* (+0.1%) compared with summer 2011, excluding the development of the provincial bases and +1.7% including the bases.   

On its long-haul network, Air France is posting capacity* of +0.1% and is increasing activity to Latin America (+9.7%), Asia (+6.3%) and Africa (+4.9%). Air France is reducing capacity* to North America (-6.5%), the Middle East (-17.5%), the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean (-2.2%). 

To China, Air France will be launching a new route on 11 April to Wuhan, its fifth destination in China, operated three times a week by Boeing 777-200.

Air France will also be offering a new daily service by Airbus A380 to Los Angeles as from 28 May and will be resuming its daily flights with this superjumbo to Tokyo. There will also be three weekly frequencies to Shanghai by Airbus A380**.

Within the framework of the transatlantic joint venture, the route to Seattle will be taken over by Delta and the route to New York – Newark will be suspended at the beginning of the summer season.

After significantly modifying capacity to destinations affected by geological or political crises in 2011 (Japan, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Tunisia), Air France has adjusted its schedule to reflect recent developments in the demand for these destinations.

In Africa, Air France plans to launch a new route to Port Gentil**in Gabon and will be resuming service to Abuja** (Nigeria), previously operated by KLM. Air France will continue to increase capacity* to Abidjan, Lomé, Malabo and N'Djamena. To these last two destinations, the daily flights operated by Airbus A319 Dedicate will be replaced by three weekly flights by Airbus A330.

On the medium-haul network, the growth in activity remains stable (+0.2%) excluding the provincial bases and stands at +6.5% with the launch of the provincial bases in Marseille, Toulouse and Nice. 

23 new international routes will be offered on departure from these three cities:

• From Marseille, services to Barcelona, Berlin, Hamburg, Marrakech and Venice will be added to the 12 destinations already served since October 2011.
• From Toulouse, 14 new international destinations will be offered as from 1 April 2012: Athens, Berlin, Casablanca, Hamburg, Istanbul, Malaga, Malta, Marrakech, Naples, Prague, Tunis, Seville, Venice and Vienna.
• From Nice, 4 new international destinations will be offered as from 3 April 2012: Athens, Naples, Tel Aviv and Venice.

Capacity will be increased to Nice and Toulouse on departure from Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly. Excluding the provincial bases, Air France’s medium-haul capacity remains stable (+0.2%). 

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*expressed in ASK – available seat-kilometres 
** subject to obtaining traffic rights

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