The airline specialist in the “business-class” is already observing an occupancy rate of 90% after more than a year of interruption.
“La Compagnie”, specialist in business class flights to New York, announced on Thursday that it had resumed rotations and observed a 90% occupancy rate between the United States and France, after more than a year of interruption due at Covid-19.
This announcement constitutes a new indication of a resumption of certain international air links from France at the approach of summer, beyond intra-European travel facilitated by the health certificate.
“The Company resumed its regular flights between Paris and New York on June 12 with a gradual increase in its offer: two flights per week in June, four flights in July, five in August, then a daily flight from September 2021 “, she explained in a statement.
Load rise
Operating two single-aisle Airbus A321neo, the company will also resume “its summer line between Nice and New York from July 3, 2021 with three weekly flights,” she added.
Finally, La Compagnie will also operate a new line “from July 22, 2021 between Paris and Tel Aviv with three weekly flights until the end of October”, according to the same source.
The resumption of rotations between France and New York, interrupted for more than a year due to the health crisis and border closures, comes as the European Union has announced that it has agreed to welcome Americans this summer. even unvaccinated. The converse is not yet established.
65% of capacity for Air France
During this interruption, La Compagnie, whose planes have 76 seats that can recline into flat beds – compared to more than 200 for the two-class A321s – continued to operate its planes on charter, also benefiting from two loans guaranteed by the State with a total of 20 million euros and new support from its shareholders.
Corsair for its part said Wednesday that it would serve Abidjan daily from this week. And Air France will deploy this summer a program of nearly 200 destinations, “reinforced towards France, Europe, North Africa and Overseas”.
The program of the first French company, which has suffered greatly from the crisis with the very sharp reduction in long-haul routes of which it is one of the European specialists, “will represent 65% of the capacities deployed at the same time in 2019, against 40% in May, “she said.
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