AIR France/KLM has announced plans to increase its capacity by +2.5 per cent year-over-year for the 2019-2020 winter season beginning from October 27, 2019 to March 28, 2020.
The two-in-one mega carrier will also during the period be offering 32 new routes.
The increase which is distributed as follows indicated +4 per cent on the long-haul network, -2 per cent on the medium-haul and short-haul networks with -1.9 per cent for Transavia.
On its long-haul network, the Air France-KLM Group is increasing capacity by 4 per cent, particularly to the Americas and Asia with Air France and to India with KLM.
The Group is offering five new routes and several additional frequencies compared to the previous winter season with one new flight from Paris-Charles de Gaulle with Air France to Quito (Ecuador) and four new flights from Amsterdam-Schiphol with KLM: Boston (USA), Las Vegas (USA), Liberia (Costa Rica) and Bangalore (India).
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The planned increase which has not exempted Africa however did not include Nigeria but included Kenya where the the airline group will be increasing service to Nairobi with two additional flights just as it is increasing seat capacity by +9 per cent to Abdjan, Côte d’Ivoire, an additional flight to N’Djamena, Chad with increase in its flight and offer of a. Daily flight each to Brazzaville and Kinshasa, in Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo respectively.
In the United States, while KLM is operating flights during the winter season for the first time to two new destinations: three weekly flights from Amsterdam-Schiphol to Boston and three weekly flights to Las Vegas, continuing services from the summer season, Air France is also operating four additional weekly flights to Washington D.C. from Paris-Charles de Gaulle (for a total of 11 weekly flights).
In Canada, Air France’s Airbus A350-900, which joined the fleet this September, is flying to Toronto throughout the winter season. The company is also increasing the number of services to Montreal with one additional weekly flight (for a total of 14 weekly flights).