Air France to Add Cape Town Link

Air France will introduce a new three times weekly service between Paris CDG and the South African city of Cape Town, from November 3. The flight will be operated by a Boeing 777-200 with a total capacity of 309 seats, equipped with 35 seats in the Business cabin, 24 seats in the Premium Voyageur cabin and 250 seats in the Voyageur (Economy) cabin. This will increase the airline’s flights between France and South Africa to 10 per week, complementing its daily service to Johannesburg, which was upgraded to an Airbus A380 in February last year.

Around 1.6 million O&D passengers travelled between Europe and South Africa with Air France holding a 8.2 share of this traffic and its sister carrier KLM 9.8 per cent. The Dutch carrier already serves Cape Town on a daily basis from Amsterdam Schiphol, alongside a daily rotation to Johannesburg.

A city in the south-western corner of South Africa, located on the Atlantic coast, Cape Town is the second largest port, the country's legislative capital, seat of the South African Parliament and one of the top tourist destinations in South Africa. Last year more than 498,000 O&D passengers travelled between there and Europe with 38,000 using the Paris CDG – Cape Town route.

Schedule:

AF934 CDG1040 – 2250CPT 772 246
AF935 CPT0115 – 1135CDG 772 357

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NOTE: Schedule data extracted from Flightbase for week commencing April 14, 2011; Traffic data extracted from IATA BSP system for the year ending January 2011.