Paris-Orly Airport

As easyJet adds new services from Toulon, Routes takes a look at the biggest airlines, airports and routes currently operating in France’s market.

Two routes are being launched from the city, located on southern France’s Mediterranean coast.

Flight frequencies on many routes continue to be significantly below pre-COVID-19 levels.

Turkish Airlines operates the most daily flights among European airlines in a low-demand environment.

Air France-KLM CEO Ben Smith discusses the overhaul of the group’s strategy in the French domestic market.

France’s national carrier expects to operate up to 55% of its 2019 domestic schedule over the Christmas period.

The LCC will begin domestic service in November, offering four routes form Nantes and one from Paris Orly.

Renationalized flag-carrier to restart service with 70-strong fleet.

Corsair currently only serves long-haul leisure routes from France but sees opportunities in certain German regions.

ASL Airlines France, which specialises in flights between France and North Africa, will tomorrow open a new domestic scheduled passenger route.

French carrier Air Caraïbes is pushing ahead with plans to launch a new route to Mexico in October.

Last September, the airline restarted Paris Orly-Miami flights after a six-year absence.

The carrier aims for more seamless service throughout its network.

This week: Alitalia is to resume service to San Francisco; Aeroflot plans Osaka return; and LEVEL is to launch its sixth destination from Paris.

This week: LEVEL bets on new Vegas route; LATAM Airlines adds Chile - Brazil service; and American Airlines set for second connection to Guyana.

Ahead of Routes Europe 2018 in Bilbao, Routesonline provides a snapshot of Spain’s leading international airlines and airports, as well as the most used aircraft types on international flights.

This week: Air India adds new route from Birmingham Airport, plus why VLM Airlines is introducing an Antwerp to Zurich service.

Although the Air France-KLM Group low-cost brand has previously served the UK market from the Netherlands, the new links from Paris Orly into England and Scotland’s capital cities by its Transavia France operation represent its first ever flights between France and the UK.

OpenSkies revealed earlier this month that the 767-300 would join its existing 757-200s from August 2016. Our Airline Route blog now confirms that schedules have been updated to include the new arrival with a first scheduled flight of the type due on August 19, 2016.

Initially developed under the working title ‘Sunline’, the long-haul operator is expected to be officially launched next month and is likely to serve a network on leisure markets from Paris Orly, including destinations in Canada, USA, Mexico and the Dominican Republic.

Transaero announced plans to debut the Airbus A320 Family variant into its fleet from July 2015 in March last year when it confirmed a deal with ICBC Leasing, part of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, to introduce six A321 aircraft on operating leases for delivery through March 2016. These are the first of up to 30 A321s that are due to enter the Russian carrier’s fleet within the next five years.

Irish regional airline, CityJet will end its flights from Cardiff to Edinburgh and Paris from June 29, after the airline criticised Cardiff Airport’s decision to support flybe in setting up competitor routes to the two European cities.

The airline has added an additional 20 routes to its schedule, including three from its new Amsterdam base.

The French low-cost airline has planned six new routes for its summer 2015 schedule.

From July 2, 2014, Air Seychelles will operate two return services per week between Seychelles and Paris Charles de Gaulle via Abu Dhabi with an Airbus A330-200 aircraft, configured with 18 flat-bed Business Class seats and 236 Economy seats. The new Paris service will complement the existing double-daily services to Paris from its shareholder Etihad Airways.