DeltAirlines From United States of America, joined exactly 13 years ago today! , 8545 posts, RR: 14 Reply 2, posted (2 years 4 months 1 week 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 14249 times:
Air France has an A320 doing Caribbean routes. Destinations include Cayenne, Fort-de-France, Miami, and Pointe-à-Pitre.
AF Cabin Crew From French Polynesia, joined Sep 1999, 1010 posts, RR: 43 Reply 6, posted (2 years 4 months 1 week 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 13827 times:
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Pilots are french, from main line AF Paris and have temporary base in the French West Indies
The Cabin crew are mainly from Martinique and Guadeloupe and are based there. There are temporary bases as well for Paris based cabin crew if a locally based cabin attendant is pregnant or long time sickness.
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 18464 posts, RR: 17 Reply 8, posted (2 years 4 months 1 week 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 13693 times:
Quoting DeltAirlines (Reply 2): Air France has an A320 doing Caribbean routes. Destinations include Cayenne, Fort-de-France, Miami, and Pointe-à-Pitre.
In addition to the French points mentioned, they also stop in Port au Prince, Haiti, with 5th freedom rights. AF has been operating those routes for decades. Before the A320 they used the 727 and 737. I think they may also have used the Caravelle on those routes at one time.
AvroArrow From Canada, joined Sep 2001, 1029 posts, RR: 1 Reply 11, posted (2 years 4 months 1 week 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 13598 times:
Is this seasonal or an odd arrival time at SXM? I spent a week in SXM staying at Maho beach and never saw an AF A320, just the daily A340. Not complaining about the 340, just wondering about the 320. Of course I wasn't at the beach the whole time.........
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Richierich From United States of America, joined Nov 2000, 3863 posts, RR: 7 Reply 12, posted (2 years 4 months 1 week 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 13540 times:
Quoting TurkishWings (Reply 9): I think this is one topic that comes up once a month or so....
Not quite sure if it is that often, but it is up there with DL DC-9 retirement thread counts as far as most repeated topics!
I guess people can't wrap their heads around seeing an AF narrowbody flying around MIA or SXM, etc.!
MAH4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 30438 posts, RR: 77 Reply 13, posted (2 years 4 months 1 week 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 13409 times:
Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 8): In addition to the French points mentioned, they also stop in Port au Prince, Haiti, with 5th freedom rights. AF has been operating those routes for decades. Before the A320 they used the 727 and 737. I think they may also have used the Caravelle on those routes at one time.
Someone correct me, but I think the route has been operated by Air France since the early 1960s. Air France is one of the longest serving airlines at Miami, although they did not add Miami-Paris until around 1988-89.
RFields5421 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 4871 posts, RR: 21 Reply 14, posted (2 years 4 months 1 week 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 13215 times:
Quoting SW733 (Reply 7): So they're just traditional AF A320 pilots who went up in MIA for a bit of time? Would that bid very high or very low?
MIA is not the base. I believe the base Guadeloupe.
Edit - looking at the schedules - it looks like thay have at least two aircraft based at PTP / TFFR. There are three RON per week in MIA, the other RON are at PTP.
Jolau1701 From United States of America, joined Feb 2009, 205 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (2 years 4 months 1 week 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 10901 times:
I thought I saw an AF A320 out in MIA Saturday morning! :p
MIASkies From United States of America, joined Jun 2004, 1300 posts, RR: 2 Reply 17, posted (2 years 4 months 1 week 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 10712 times:
Yeah this topic does come up every so often... it's nothing like it used to be. A.Netter's use to go nuts some years back when they would see IB 319's, MP 738's then 320's along with the AF 320 at MIA. They were all like what? when? why? is this MIA or MAD? lol
N1120A From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 25729 posts, RR: 86 Reply 18, posted (2 years 4 months 1 week 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 10457 times:
Quoting MAH4546 (Reply 13):
Someone correct me, but I think the route has been operated by Air France since the early 1960s
That DC-4 pic (though it is at SJU, they also flew to MIA) is from 1968.
Quoting MAH4546 (Reply 13): Air France is one of the longest serving airlines at Miami, although they did not add Miami-Paris until around 1988-89.
That is so crazy.
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PlanenutzTB From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 256 posts, RR: 1 Reply 20, posted (2 years 4 months 1 week 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 9894 times:
This is not any different then CO basing 737's at GUM. It's all for local island flights.
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Evanbu From United States of America, joined Mar 2009, 358 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (2 years 4 months 1 week 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 9878 times:
Just saw the A320 at MIA tonight. That caught me off guard.
Bohica From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 2150 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (2 years 4 months 1 week 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 9648 times:
MAH4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 30438 posts, RR: 77 Reply 24, posted (2 years 4 months 1 week 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 8884 times:
Quoting RFields5421 (Reply 14): Edit - looking at the schedules - it looks like thay have at least two aircraft based at PTP / TFFR. There are three RON per week in MIA, the other RON are at PTP.
There is currently an A320 RON in MIA every night except Tuesday.
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25 Doona: Well, the French territories in the Caribbean isn't another country. It's basically domestic and international flights, as usual, but from another pa
27 ARFFdude: I'm curious about this as well. Seems like an awesome gig, but then again I'm a young guy with no family.
28 Ajd1992: Pan Am also had B727s in West Germany for a long time to feed their long haul routes from Frankfurt, Heathrow etc. They were partly the reason PA103 h
29 RFields5421: The Pan Am aircraft in West Germany were there because an airline from West Germany was not allowed to fly to Berlin. This was part of the division o
30 LTU932: IB did operate direct flights to Central America on and off, but they also had the MIA hub with the A319s. The MIA hub was given up some time after T
31 Viscount724: Pan Am also operated numerous change-of-gauge services from FRA to other countries in Euroipe using 727s and 737s, apart from the services to Berlin.
32 Stackhouse007: Learn something everyday.. Thats pretty cool to see large european airlines operating smaller birds in the islands.
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