And Bordeaux:

https://www.sudouest.fr/2019/02/20/ryan ... 8-2780.php

Au total, 32 lignes Ryanair desserviront la capitale girondine d’ici l’hiver 2019. Un nouvel avion sera également mis en service dans la base. La compagne dessert déjà depuis l’aéroport de Bordeaux Mérignac Londres, Bruxelles, Milan, Porto, Seville, Rome, Valence, Fès et Marrakech.

Elle desservira, dès le mois d’avril 2019, Bari, Bologne, Cologne, Copenhague, Dublin, Cracovie, Lisbonne, Malaga, Manchester, Marseille, Nador, Nantes, Naples, Ouarazate, Tanger et Venise Trévise. Les lignes à destination de Budapest, Prague, Palerme, Oujda, Brest, Lille et Strasbourg ouvriront à partir de novembre 2019.

Alsatian wrote:

Toulouse will become the next Ryanair base with 11 new routes to BES LIL MRS LUX BUD PMO OUD TNG OPO ALC and VLC

https://twitter.com/aeroport_tls/status ... 8254203904

https://twitter.com/aeroport_tls/status ... 1569356800

This means there will be many 737s right where Airbus is headquartered ...

QR aircraft changes :

DOH-NCE: A319 -> A359 from March 31 on, 5x
DOH-CDG: B773 -> A35J from August 31 on, QSuite.

I guess it's the first services with these types to both Nice and Paris.

Article in French

Not sure if it was mentioned before on that thread:

From July 29, Easyjet will offer a service from Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport to Montpellier.
This is a seasonal route, as the link will be available until October 25th, with four flights per week: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Departure at 6:25 am, arrival at 8:00. For the return, departure 8:40 am, arrival 10:15.

Hainan Airlines adds Guiyang – Paris service

Hainan Airlines from late-March 2019 is adding new route to France, opened for reservation this week. From 24MAR19, the airline will offer nonstop Guiyang – Paris CDG service, operating once a week with Boeing 787-9 aircraft (-8 on 24MAR19).

https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/283292/hainan-airlines-adds-guiyang-paris-service-from-late-march-2019/

According to the article below (in French), a new route between Nice and China operated by China Eastern should be announced on March 24th during the visit of Xi Jinping.

https://www.laquotidienne.fr/tourisme-le-president-chinois-en-visite-officielle-a-monaco/

MrBren wrote:

According to the article below (in French), a new route between Nice and China operated by China Eastern should be announced on March 24th during the visit of Xi Jinping.

https://www.laquotidienne.fr/tourisme-le-president-chinois-en-visite-officielle-a-monaco/

Actually, this should be Shanghai, operated 4 times a week by Shanghai Airlines starting January 2020 according to this document: http://www.caac.gov.cn/XXGK/XXGK/TZTG/201903/P020190313565047745359.pdf

Wizz Air is launching a two weekly, summer seasonal flights from BEG to LYS. Flights starts on June 15.

Bad news about WOW Air in Lyon: WOW Air will fly this summer instead of 4x weekly only 2x weekly to Lyon (LYS).

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1418413
Enhanced service for Paris-PVG/CAN/PEK have been proposed, new service for Paris-PKX(Beijing 2nd)/Nanchang/Wenzhou/Nanjing have been suggested, new route from Beijing to Marseille and from Shanghai to Nice have also been proposed as stated in earlier replies in the thread.

LH adds Munich-Strasbourg:

Munich – Strasbourg eff 09APR19 5 weekly
LH2256 MUC0900 – 0955SXB CR9 235
LH2256 MUC1205 – 1305SXB CR9 1
LH2256 MUC1545 – 1645SXB CR9 4

LH2257 SXB1030 – 1125MUC CR9 235
LH2257 SXB1400 – 1455MUC CR9 1
LH2257 SXB1725 – 1820MUC CR9 4

c933103 wrote:

https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1418413
Enhanced service for Paris-PVG/CAN/PEK have been proposed, new service for Paris-PKX(Beijing 2nd)/Nanchang/Wenzhou/Nanjing have been suggested, new route from Beijing to Marseille and from Shanghai to Nice have also been proposed as stated in earlier replies in the thread.

Chinese president is visiting Paris and Nice from tomorrow on. These proposed routes may materialize then.

Blerg wrote:

LH adds Munich-Strasbourg

Czech is cancelling SXB-PRG.

The OSP service is moved to LH and MUC. Which certainly makes way more sense in order to connect the European institutions in Strasbourg with Eastern Europe.

SCQ83 wrote:

Blerg wrote:

LH adds Munich-Strasbourg

Czech is cancelling SXB-PRG.

The OSP service is moved to LH and MUC. Which certainly makes way more sense in order to connect the European institutions in Strasbourg with Eastern Europe.

Prague has not made sense for a long time given the shrinking of OK's network. Lufthansa will also serve other markets beyond eastern Europe, especially the Middle East.

Due to 737-8 MAX grounding, AC is delaying the start of YUL-BOD to July.

https://www.air-journal.fr/2019-04-03-air-canada-suspend-vols-et-routes-faute-de-737-max-5211544.html

Next summer (July 2nd), Ethiopian Airlines will open a service to Marseille, its second destination in France. it will add a fourth weekly rotation to Switzerland. The national airline will offer three flights a week via Milan on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday with a 787-9.

Is it the first ever 789 at MRS???
There are big of Comorian and Malagasy diasporas in town and around but not sure the demand justifies flight on its own. Was not there a link to MRS to HAH a few years ago?

More infos:
https://newsaero.info/airlines/ethiopia ... ?true=1696

Or here reply #72
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1411967&start=50#p21251233

TUI To Launch Flights From Paris To Svalbard



https://simpleflying.com/paris-to-svalbard-flights/

MrBren wrote:

TUI To Launch Flights From Paris To Svalbard



https://simpleflying.com/paris-to-svalbard-flights/

Now that is exotic, and frankly I didn't see that coming! If advertised correctly I'm sure the weekly summer flight can work out well. Very few people know about Svalbard at all currently.

Sounds these flights are chartered flights for this High end cruise company "Le Ponant"

They usually charter flights during summer for those kind of destinations (Kangerluassaq, etc)

AirwayBill wrote:

MrBren wrote:

TUI To Launch Flights From Paris To Svalbard



https://simpleflying.com/paris-to-svalbard-flights/

Now that is exotic, and frankly I didn't see that coming! If advertised correctly I'm sure the weekly summer flight can work out well. Very few people know about Svalbard at all currently.

China Eastern schedules Qingdao – Paris

China Eastern from mid-June 2019 is introducing new nonstop route to France, where the Skyteam member schedules Qingdao – Paris CDG service. From 19JUN19, Airbus A330-200 aircraft will operate this route 3 times a week.

MU797 TAO1200 – 1805CDG 332 135
MU798 CDG2005 – 1225+1TAO 332 135

https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/283872/china-eastern-schedules-qingdao-paris-june-2019-launch/

AirwayBill wrote:

MrBren wrote:

TUI To Launch Flights From Paris To Svalbard



https://simpleflying.com/paris-to-svalbard-flights/

Now that is exotic, and frankly I didn't see that coming! If advertised correctly I'm sure the weekly summer flight can work out well. Very few people know about Svalbard at all currently.

Well Atlantic Airways will be launching Svalbard - Paris on July 1st with 3 weekly flights so that’s quiet the capacity for such an “exotic” route.

eastafspot wrote:

Next summer (July 2nd), Ethiopian Airlines will open a service to Marseille, its second destination in France. it will add a fourth weekly rotation to Switzerland. The national airline will offer three flights a week via Milan on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday with a 787-9.

Is it the first ever 789 at MRS???
There are big of Comorian and Malagasy diasporas in town and around but not sure the demand justifies flight on its own. Was not there a link to MRS to HAH a few years ago?

More infos:
https://newsaero.info/airlines/ethiopia ... ?true=1696

Or here reply #72
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1411967&start=50#p21251233

Marseille is jokingly known as “the biggest city in Comoros” with an estimated diaspora of over 120K Comorians. Demand is there. In fact almost 100% of passengers on board ill fated Yemenia Flight 626 from Sana’a to Moroni we’re connecting passengers from Marseille.

Same goes for the Malagasy diaspora which is in fact the biggest subsaharian diaspora in France. Little people know that since it is an “invisible” diaspora due to the fact that Madagascar is an ethnically and racially very diverse country and that contrary to most other diasporas they are “diluted” all over France (and I should know I’m 1/2 Malagasy and like most of my family, you could never tell by my skin colour).

Sadly, it seems as if the rumored China Southern route from PVG-NCE was just a rumor. I still live in hope for a direct connection to Eastern Asia. I wonder which airline would be the most likely to go ahead with such a route? Maybe Air China?

GreatDaneAirlines intends to fly from Aalborg to Nice from June using an Embraer E190:

https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/ai ... june-2019/

Jet2 announces Birmingham-Nice beginning in May 2020:

https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/ai ... f-26mar19/

MrBren wrote:

La Compagnie to operate NCE - EWR from May to October 2019 5 times a week.

That's a really good addition. NCE needs more services to North America.

zkojq wrote:

Sadly, it seems as if the rumored China Southern route from PVG-NCE was just a rumor. I still live in hope for a direct connection to Eastern Asia. I wonder which airline would be the most likely to go ahead with such a route? Maybe Air China?

It’s not a “rumour”, MU did ask authority to open PGV-NCE last month but hasn’t been granted rights yet.

Thibault973 wrote:

zkojq wrote:

Sadly, it seems as if the rumored China Southern route from PVG-NCE was just a rumor. I still live in hope for a direct connection to Eastern Asia. I wonder which airline would be the most likely to go ahead with such a route? Maybe Air China?

It’s not a “rumour”, MU did ask authority to open PGV-NCE last month but hasn’t been granted rights yet.

One would have thought that Xi Jinping's visit to Nice with Macron last month would have helped materialize this new route.

ro1960 wrote:

Thibault973 wrote:

zkojq wrote:

Sadly, it seems as if the rumored China Southern route from PVG-NCE was just a rumor. I still live in hope for a direct connection to Eastern Asia. I wonder which airline would be the most likely to go ahead with such a route? Maybe Air China?

It’s not a “rumour”, MU did ask authority to open PGV-NCE last month but hasn’t been granted rights yet.

One would have thought that Xi Jinping's visit to Nice with Macron last month would have helped materialize this new route.

Indeed. As an aside, does anyone here remember what aircraft he used for his state visit. A friend said there was an Air China tail and NCE, but couldn't identify which specific aircraft it was.

zkojq wrote:

ro1960 wrote:

Thibault973 wrote:

It’s not a “rumour”, MU did ask authority to open PGV-NCE last month but hasn’t been granted rights yet.

One would have thought that Xi Jinping's visit to Nice with Macron last month would have helped materialize this new route.

Indeed. As an aside, does anyone here remember what aircraft he used for his state visit. A friend said there was an Air China tail and NCE, but couldn't identify which specific aircraft it was.

It was B-2482, flight CA57 PMO-NCE. Here's the photo I took on that day.

Air France is cutting about 15 short haul routes - some of the cuts have already been done
https://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-servi ... ue-1018475

Routes being (or that have been) cut include as mentioned in the article include
Paris Orly-Quimper
Paris Orly-La Rochelle
Paris Orly-Agen
Lille-Brest
Nantes-Montpellier
Strasbourg-Lille
Caen-Geneva
Rennes-Bruxelles
Slots at Orly will be recycled for use by Transavia

This includes Quimper-Orly, which means that Quimper would no longer have year-round scheduled flights - it would be left with just a summer seasonal to London-City (with BA) and also Figari in Corsica (with AF so presumably also vulnerable)
Can Quimper airport remain open for scheduled air service beyond the end of summer 2019 or will it end up reduced to something more minor like Lannion ?

davidjohnson6 wrote:

Air France is cutting about 15 short haul routes - some of the cuts have already been done
https://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-servi ... ue-1018475

Routes being (or that have been) cut include as mentioned in the article include
Paris Orly-Quimper
Paris Orly-La Rochelle
Paris Orly-Agen
Lille-Brest
Nantes-Montpellier
Strasbourg-Lille
Caen-Geneva
Rennes-Bruxelles
Slots at Orly will be recycled for use by Transavia

This includes Quimper-Orly, which means that Quimper would no longer have year-round scheduled flights - it would be left with just a summer seasonal to London-City (with BA) and also Figari in Corsica (with AF so presumably also vulnerable)
Can Quimper airport remain open for scheduled air service beyond the end of summer 2019 or will it end up reduced to something more minor like Lannion ?

Any of the cut Line are under OSP?

davidjohnson6 wrote:

Air France is cutting about 15 short haul routes - some of the cuts have already been done
https://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-servi ... ue-1018475

Routes being (or that have been) cut include as mentioned in the article include
Paris Orly-Quimper
Paris Orly-La Rochelle
Paris Orly-Agen
Lille-Brest
Nantes-Montpellier
Strasbourg-Lille
Caen-Geneva
Rennes-Bruxelles
Slots at Orly will be recycled for use by Transavia

This includes Quimper-Orly, which means that Quimper would no longer have year-round scheduled flights - it would be left with just a summer seasonal to London-City (with BA) and also Figari in Corsica (with AF so presumably also vulnerable)
Can Quimper airport remain open for scheduled air service beyond the end of summer 2019 or will it end up reduced to something more minor like Lannion ?

A few weeks ago I was looking at flying RNS-BRU and noticed quite a few days the route is cancelled. This happened to me before with Air France Regional / HOP.

Whenever a flight has low loads, they just cancel the flight and route people via CDG/LYS.

AF regional operations are a mess. They should consolidate them in CDG so those provincial towns are also connected to the rest of the world.

I was surprised to see that AF is now down to once daily CDG-TLN vs the 2 daily since inauguration.

I have flown the route many times and the flights were packed and often more expensive than the ORY alternative.

AF773 wrote:

I was surprised to see that AF is now down to once daily CDG-TLN vs the 2 daily since inauguration.

I have flown the route many times and the flights were packed and often more expensive than the ORY alternative.

Why they are now down to One per day from CDG? Régional Fleet shortage?

A380MSN004 wrote:

AF773 wrote:

I was surprised to see that AF is now down to once daily CDG-TLN vs the 2 daily since inauguration.

I have flown the route many times and the flights were packed and often more expensive than the ORY alternative.

Why they are now down to One per day from CDG? Régional Fleet shortage?

Probably yes!! I had not thought of that

Thibault973 wrote:

eastafspot wrote:

Next summer (July 2nd), Ethiopian Airlines will open a service to Marseille, its second destination in France. it will add a fourth weekly rotation to Switzerland. The national airline will offer three flights a week via Milan on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday with a 787-9.

Is it the first ever 789 at MRS???
There are big of Comorian and Malagasy diasporas in town and around but not sure the demand justifies flight on its own. Was not there a link to MRS to HAH a few years ago?

More infos:
https://newsaero.info/airlines/ethiopia ... ?true=1696

Or here reply #72
https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtop ... #p21251233

Marseille is jokingly known as “the biggest city in Comoros” with an estimated diaspora of over 120K Comorians. Demand is there. In fact almost 100% of passengers on board ill fated Yemenia Flight 626 from Sana’a to Moroni we’re connecting passengers from Marseille.

Same goes for the Malagasy diaspora which is in fact the biggest subsaharian diaspora in France. Little people know that since it is an “invisible” diaspora due to the fact that Madagascar is an ethnically and racially very diverse country and that contrary to most other diasporas they are “diluted” all over France (and I should know I’m 1/2 Malagasy and like most of my family, you could never tell by my skin colour).

Merci beaucoup, je n'étais pas sûr des chiffres exacts, mais grâce à tes précisions, cela semble justifier un vol d'ET à MRS.
You guys, from the Red Island, are lucky enough, to be confused with southern Spaniard or Ritals (Italians ) when spring is coming here - In south of France!
When will AF remove the COI cabins to TNR?

In the meantimes, Thibault973, please feel free to share the news/comments or impressions of your beautiful island here:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1412171

ro1960 wrote:

zkojq wrote:

ro1960 wrote:

One would have thought that Xi Jinping's visit to Nice with Macron last month would have helped materialize this new route.

Indeed. As an aside, does anyone here remember what aircraft he used for his state visit. A friend said there was an Air China tail and NCE, but couldn't identify which specific aircraft it was.

It was B-2482, flight CA57 PMO-NCE. Here's the photo I took on that day.

Excellent photo!

First delivery to HOP since restructuring. https://www.planephotos.net/photo/18750 ... D_F-HBLL//

zkojq wrote:

ro1960 wrote:

It was B-2482, flight CA57 PMO-NCE. Here's the photo I took on that day.

Excellent photo!

Thanks

CarbonFibre wrote:

First delivery to HOP since restructuring. https://www.planephotos.net/photo/18750 ... D_F-HBLL//

And new livery for Hop! Air France.

nicode wrote:

CarbonFibre wrote:

First delivery to HOP since restructuring. https://www.planephotos.net/photo/18750 ... D_F-HBLL//

And new livery for Hop! Air France.

I'm impressed! It looks much more elegant in the mainline colours.

davidjohnson6 wrote:

Air France is cutting about 15 short haul routes - some of the cuts have already been done
https://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-servi ... ue-1018475

Routes being (or that have been) cut include as mentioned in the article include
Paris Orly-Quimper
Paris Orly-La Rochelle
Paris Orly-Agen
Lille-Brest
Nantes-Montpellier
Strasbourg-Lille
Caen-Geneva
Rennes-Bruxelles
Slots at Orly will be recycled for use by Transavia

This includes Quimper-Orly, which means that Quimper would no longer have year-round scheduled flights - it would be left with just a summer seasonal to London-City (with BA) and also Figari in Corsica (with AF so presumably also vulnerable)
Can Quimper airport remain open for scheduled air service beyond the end of summer 2019 or will it end up reduced to something more minor like Lannion ?

Paris Orly - Agen is operated by Chalair (CE) since 07 JAN 2019 (OSP route)
Paris Orly - Quimper will be ended on 01 SEP 2019 (by Air France Hop) but restarted on 01 NOV 2019 on OSP route (we don't know by which airline for the moment)
Paris Orly - La Rochelle by Air France Hop will be not closed this year.

https://www.aeroport-paris-orly.com/previsions

Arrival of the first TS A321neoLR at NCE:

Photo on NCE FB page

Air France is starting Sevilla:

https://www.air-journal.fr/2019-08-05-a ... 14215.html

Air France ouvre un Paris – Séville

A partir du 1er juin 2020, la compagnie nationale française proposera un vol quotidien entre sa base à Paris-CDG et l’aéroport de Séville, opéré en Airbus A320 de 174 sièges. Les départs sont programmés à 12h30 pour arriver à 14h55, les vols retour quittant l’Andalousie à 15h50 pour se poser à 18h20.

This is Air France's first destination in Andalucia and their sixth in Spain after Madrid, Barcelona, Palma, Ibiza and Bilbao.

SCQ83 wrote:

Air France is starting Sevilla:

https://www.air-journal.fr/2019-08-05-a ... 14215.html

Air France ouvre un Paris – Séville

A partir du 1er juin 2020, la compagnie nationale française proposera un vol quotidien entre sa base à Paris-CDG et l’aéroport de Séville, opéré en Airbus A320 de 174 sièges. Les départs sont programmés à 12h30 pour arriver à 14h55, les vols retour quittant l’Andalousie à 15h50 pour se poser à 18h20.

This is Air France's first destination in Andalucia and their sixth in Spain after Madrid, Barcelona, Palma, Ibiza and Bilbao.

Must be some demands from CDG as they only feed Sevilla from ORY from now with TO.

A380MSN004 wrote:

Must be some demands from CDG as they only feed Sevilla from ORY from now with TO.

France is the 1st nationality when it comes to international tourists in Sevilla: 1) France, 2) USA, 3) Italy, 4) UK, 5) Germany. It will probably help getting some connections to the US (that is why the rumoured UA EWR-SVQ) and to Asia or elsewhere in Europe.

https://www.sevilla.org/ayuntamiento/al ... re-de-2018

Francia se mantiene como la primera nacionalidad seguida de EEUU, Italia, Reino Unido y Alemania. Este último país es el que experimenta un mayor crecimiento de un 15% en los viajeros y de un 24% en las pernoctaciones.

SCQ83 wrote:

A380MSN004 wrote:

Must be some demands from CDG as they only feed Sevilla from ORY from now with TO.

France is the 1st nationality when it comes to international tourists in Sevilla: 1) France, 2) USA, 3) Italy, 4) UK, 5) Germany. It will probably help getting some connections to the US (that is why the rumoured UA EWR-SVQ) and to Asia or elsewhere in Europe.

https://www.sevilla.org/ayuntamiento/al ... re-de-2018

Francia se mantiene como la primera nacionalidad seguida de EEUU, Italia, Reino Unido y Alemania. Este último país es el que experimenta un mayor crecimiento de un 15% en los viajeros y de un 24% en las pernoctaciones.

interesting, thanks!

UA announces daily EWR-NCE for S20 with a 767-300, 46 business, 22 premium and 99 economy.

Nice addition for NCE! This will complement Delta and La Compagnie.

Article in French:
https://www.nice.aeroport.fr/Passagers/Actualites/United-Airlines-renforce-la-connexion-Nice-Newark

AF773 wrote:

I was surprised to see that AF is now down to once daily CDG-TLN vs the 2 daily since inauguration.

I have flown the route many times and the flights were packed and often more expensive than the ORY alternative.

CDG-TLN-CDG will be axed starting the winter schedule.

AF has just announced ORY-GVA for the winter season

SCQ83 wrote:

Air France is starting Sevilla:

https://www.air-journal.fr/2019-08-05-a ... 14215.html

Air France ouvre un Paris – Séville

A partir du 1er juin 2020, la compagnie nationale française proposera un vol quotidien entre sa base à Paris-CDG et l’aéroport de Séville, opéré en Airbus A320 de 174 sièges. Les départs sont programmés à 12h30 pour arriver à 14h55, les vols retour quittant l’Andalousie à 15h50 pour se poser à 18h20.

This is Air France's first destination in Andalucia and their sixth in Spain after Madrid, Barcelona, Palma, Ibiza and Bilbao.

It’s a resumption, although the route was flown from ORY and not CDG by AF mainline in the past (from 2000 IIRC and during a couple of years). AF mainline also served briefly SVQ from TLS and/or BOD (not sure) during the failed « bases de provinces » experiment.

Are AF planning any training flights for their new A350 when they receive it, similar to the A380 and B787?

Air France keeps Belgrade in winter as well, will maintain daily flights on the A320.