MEA330 From Lebanon, joined Aug 2002, 267 posts, RR: 8 Reply 1, posted (3 years 5 months 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 4155 times:
Very odd flight number. Air France normally use 5XX series flight numbers for their Middle East area flight numbers. Maybe it is a code shared flight even though it is not with Etihad.
If I'm not mistaken, AF's changing its entire flight number system, everything will get a 4-digit number.
Great news; I guess KLM is doing pretty well at AUH since it delinked AUH from BAH and its now a dedicated service. I wonder if, in some remote way, this is to tie in with Abu Dhabi's cultural development as a Paris of the Middle East (a Sorbonne, Louvre etc. )
MaverickM11 From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 15714 posts, RR: 48 Reply 3, posted (3 years 5 months 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 3906 times:
The bigger news is that this seems to be coming at the expense of DXB. DXB is reduced from 12 to 5 weekly, but upgraded to a 77W, and AUH is started with 5 weekly. Coincidence? I think not .
MaverickM11 From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 15714 posts, RR: 48 Reply 5, posted (3 years 5 months 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 3781 times:
Quoting Cdg (Reply 4): No DXB is reduced to a DAILY flight , from 12 weekly, upgraded with 77W from 772.
Ronerone From Jordan, joined Aug 2004, 1541 posts, RR: 54 Reply 6, posted (3 years 5 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 3279 times:
Quoting Directorguy (Reply 2): Great news; I guess KLM is doing pretty well at AUH since it delinked AUH from BAH and its now a dedicated service.
KLM is in fact doing very well at AUH.
While it did delink BAH from AUH, AUH is now combined with MCT.
The improvement is however, that KLM now offers non-stop service to AMS rather than 1-stop hence, making it more attractive to passengers.
Quoting Directorguy (Reply 2): I wonder if, in some remote way, this is to tie in with Abu Dhabi's cultural development as a Paris of the Middle East (a Sorbonne, Louvre etc. )
Exactly. Not to forget the French military base in Abu Dhabi as well.
Most importantly, there is a number of French business based in Abu Dhabi that Air France believed it could tap into with a service to Abu Dhabi.
Knowing how patriotic the French are, it is almost certain that once AF starts those flights to AUH, these prospect passengers will immediately shift from other airlines.
So in my opinion, i think Air France will do very well here!
Regards,
Roni
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Val747 From France, joined Aug 2009, 51 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (3 years 5 months 15 hours ago) and read 2816 times:
Quoting Directorguy (Reply 2): If I'm not mistaken, AF's changing its entire flight number system, everything will get a 4-digit number.
I'm not so sure about that. They already changed some of the north american flights numbers, but because of the joint venture with DL. (like : CDG-MIA, AF090 became AF690).
Anyways, it's a great news if it comes to be true for AUH!!
Flying Belgian From Belgium, joined Jun 2001, 2357 posts, RR: 10 Reply 9, posted (3 years 5 months 14 hours ago) and read 2718 times:
France had strongly reinforced the political and cultural link with Abu-Dhabi recently. Hence the new flight I assume. I think in that way that this new flight will be a small setback to Etihad whose O&D traffic out of CDG wasn't too bad.
With the downturn in Dubai, Abu-Dhabi is slowly becoming the place to be in the Gulf region.
They really impressed me with that Formula One Grand Prix in November. It was by far the most extravagant track and venue for years in Motorsport history. And it was designed and supervised by many French companies...
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