Lyon-Entreprises recently echoed this: Nice has just benefited from a Lyon-New York link by the company US United.
We then asked ourselves: why not also Lyon, the size of Nice airport being almost similar to that of Lyon (14 million passengers per year against 11 million)?
However, good news, even if it is necessary to temper it and to use the conditional: the answer could be yes.
It is our colleague La Tribune who gives the information, after meeting with the CEO of United. Lyon could benefit from a Lyon-New York link, it is true eagerly awaited after three bitter failures in the past.
Last Lyon-New York link, in… 2008
After Air France previously, it was another American company, Delta Airlines, which had broken its teeth on such a link which had started on… July 16, 2008 and which had therefore come up against the serious economic consequences of the subprime crisis , quickly stopping the costs. It was then a direct daily connection.
However, at present, the American company United is in the process of greatly increasing its capacities.
After opening nearly 150 lines in three years, the US company, which is reaping significant profits, will hire 34,000 people by 2022, 40% of which will support the growth of the offer “which promises to be massive. “
After the announcement of the opening next May of the Nice-New York line, “United is studying the possibility of launching new routes in France in the future. Lyon, Marseille and Bordeaux are cited ”, explains La Tribune.
In the future, but not immediately: “For the future, we are looking at Lyon, Marseille and Bordeaux, but there are currently no projects ”United’s commercial director Andrew Nocella told The Tribune.
What all the same to shower a little enthusiasm …
It remains for the management of Lyon airport to do the forcing towards United to materialize this project which would allow Lyon-Saint Exupéry to take on another dimension …
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