XL Airways Offers Expanded Transatlantic Schedule

French leisure carrier XL Airways is to inaugurate flights from Paris CDG to San Francisco and will offer an enhanced network of flights between the French capital and New York during the summer 2012 season. The airline will offer a weekly rotation on the Paris CDG – San Francisco route from May 26, 2012 and will add a second rotation from June 11, 2012. These flights will be operated using an Airbus A330-200 and will continue until the first week of September 2012.

Meanwhile, on the Paris CDG – New York JFK, one of two markets XL Airways already serves in the US, a previously announced reduction of capacity has been abandoned and instead an additional fortnightly rotation is being added, increasing the total number of summer flights. The French carrier had previously modified its GDS inventory in November 2011, cutting the route from five flights per week to just three during summer 2012. However, in an update last month it has reverted back to the original five times weekly offering with the addition of a sixth rotation operating on three Tuesdays in July and August.

XL Airways also offers flights between Paris CDG and Las Vegas, a link that will be operated weekly between May 31, 2012 and September 13, 2012 rather than on the twice weekly basis that it had previously served the route.