4-Mar-2010 10:00 AM
Air France-KLM Summer 2010 schedule capacity to fall 0.3%
Air France-KLM announced plans to reduce capacity (ASKs) by 0.3% under its upcoming Summer 2010 schedule. Capacity will be increased slightly (+0.8%) on the long-haul network, while medium-haul capacity will be reduced by 4.0%.
Air France Summer 2010 schedule highlights:
- Capacity: -0.9%;
- Long-haul capacity: +0.1% (without introduction of Premium Voyageur, capacity would have increased by 3.2%);
- Medium haul capacity: +3.7%;
- Domestic capacity: -2.2%.
- Fleet:
- Long-haul fleet (excluding B777s operating on Caribbean-Indian Ocean network and A380s in service) to be fitted with new 'Premium Voyageur' cabin, an intermediary class between Business and Economy;
- Four more A380s to be introduced by end of Summer schedule, Tokyo to be next A380 destination
- 16 aircraft to be retired from medium-haul fleet of Air France and its subsidiaries.
- New, lighter seat offering more legroom be introduced on A319s, A320s and A321s covering short-haul network.
- Network:
- North America:
- San Francisco: +3 frequencies to ten per week
- Atlanta: Codeshare partner, Delta, suspending third daily frequency
- Latin America:
- Santiago: Additional frequency to six per week, from Sep-2010;
- Sao Paulo: Additional frequency to thirteenth per week from Sep-2010;
- Caracas: Service down-gauged to smaller A330-200.
- Asia Pacific:
- Tokyo: A380 added to route: 27 weekly frequencies, including seven per week operated by Japan Airlines under codeshare.
- India:
- Bangalore frequency reduced from seven to six per week
- Africa:
- Capacity increased by 2.9%:
- New routes: Bata via Malabo
- Capacity increases: Johannesburg, Bangui, Lomé, Pointe Noire, Brazzaville and Libreville (conditional on traffic rights from authorities in Gabon.
- Flights to Ouagadougou (daily) and Niamey (three times weekly) to be disconnected over Summer peak:
- Middle East:
- Caribbean
- Reunion: Capacity reduced from ten to nine weekly frequencies;
- Europe (Paris CDG unless otherwise specified):
- New routes: Bari (codeshare with Alitalia);
- Route suspensions: Munster, Trieste and Shannon, Paris-Orly-Lannion, Paris-Orly-Limoges, Lyon-Rouen,
- Capacity increases: Dublin, Strasbourg-Amsterdam, Nice-Amsterdam;
- Capacity reductions: Pau, Athens, Amsterdam and Hamburg, Lyon-Le Havre, Lyon-Strasbourg. [more]
- North America: