Air France plans 50% operations in November and December

It seems Air France is following sister company KLM I’m posting cuts in its capacity as winter settles in, with the airline planning to operate 50% of its originally planned schedule for November/December and through to 3rd January 2021.

Air France Airbus A330 at Chicago O’Hare International – Image, Economy Class and Beyond.

The airline is making the changes due to the travel restrictions that continue to be in place. By the end of the year, the airline will serve 170 destinations – however, frequencies will be adapted to demand

In terms of the Air France network:

• French Domestic – Air France will operate 43 routes from Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly and Lyon Saint-Exupéry, most of which will offer day return flights.
• European Network –  Air France will serve 67 destinations – their normal network
• The Long-haul network will gain capacity increases, particularly to destinations in the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean, with additional frequencies being introduced to Fort-de-France and Pointe-à-Pitre from Paris-Charles de Gaulle, and to Saint-Denis de La Réunion, from Paris-Orly.

The new schedule is published here. Changes are likely to occur due to governmental changes in entry to countries.

In terms of destinations,  the airline is serving the following

From Paris Charles de Gaulle

Metropolitan France

• Biarritz, Bordeaux, Brest, Clermont Ferrand, Lorient, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Nice, Pau, Rennes, Toulouse

French overseas departments & territories, Caribbean & Indian Ocean

• Antananarivo, Fort-de-France, Havana, Mahe, Mauritius, Papeete, Point-a- Pitre, Punta Cana, Santo Domingo

Europe

• Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Basel, Berlin, Bilbao, Billund, Birmingham, Bologna, Bucharest, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Edinburgh, Erevan, Faro, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Hanover, Istanbul, Kyiv, Krakow, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London, Madrid, Malaga, Manchester, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Naples, Newcastle, Nuremberg, Oslo, Palma de Mallorca, Porto, Prague, Rome, Saint Petersburg, Seville, Sofia,  Stockholm, Stuttgart, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Turin, Valencia, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw, Zagreb, Zurich

Middle East

• Beirut, Dubai, Cairo

 Africa

• Abidjan, Abuja, Accra, Algiers, Bamako, Bangui, Brazzaville, Casablanca, Capetown, Conakry, Cotonou, Dakar, Djibouti, Douala, Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos, Libreville, Lomé, Luanda, Malabo, Marrakech, Monrovia, Nairobi, Niamey, N’Djamena, Nouakchott, Ouagadougou, Oran, Pointe-Noire, Rabat, Tunis, Yaoundé

 North America

• Atlanta, Boston, Cancun, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Mexico, Miami, Montreal, New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Washington

South America

• Bogota, Buenos Aires, Fortaleza, Lima, Panama City, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, San Jose, Sao Paulo

Asia

• Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Ho Chi Min City, Male, Mumbai, Osaka, Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tianjin, Tokyo

From Paris Orley

Metropolitan France and Corsica

• Ajaccio, Aurillac, Bastia, Brest, Brive, Calvi, Castres, Figari, Tarbes-Lourdes, Marseille, Montpellier, Nice, Pau, Perpignan, Toulon, Toulouse

 French overseas   departments & territories Caribbean & Indian Ocean

• Cayenne, Fort-de-France, Pointe-a-Pitre, Saint-Denis de la Reunion

From Lyon-Saint-Exupéry 

 Metropolitan France and Europe

• Biarritz, Bordeaux, Brest, Caen, Lille, Marseille, Nantes, Nice, Pau, Prague, Rennes, Rome, Strasbourg, Toulouse

The flight schedule operated under a Public Service Delegation contract between Paris and Aurillac, Brive, Castres and Lourdes and between Strasbourg and Amsterdam will be updated at a later date.

Check before travel

Air France is offering a semi-flexible cancellation policy. If you wish to cancel their trip, your ticket can now be changed at no extra cost and without proof, on the date and to the destination of their choice, or receive a  refundable credit voucher.

If your flight is cancelled by the airline, you can choose to postpone their trip at no extra cost, change their destination, request a full ticket refund or receive a credit voucher, which is also refundable if not used.

However, before you travel the airline recommends you check if you meet the entry and travel requirements for their destination and transit countries.

You can do this checking the with the relevant authorities or at airfrance.traveldoc.aero.

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