Air France to commence Abu Dhabi service

After a nine year absence, Air France plans to resume its service to Abu Dhabi as of May 2010. The new service will be a five-times weekly operation using an Airbus A330-200.

Air France will be competing with Etihad who currently operate the CDG - AUH service 10-times weekly. (ATI).

Air France has calculated the route to ensure passengers travelling from nine of its UK and Irish airports into CDG will have a maximum connection time of 90 minutes for the new service.