NY: Air France returns to Newark after a 10-year absence

Air France returns to Newark after a 10-year absence, with operations from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. By December it will cover the route with a Boeing 777-200ER performing 40 monthly flights and by April 2023 it will increase them to 62 monthly operations.

The airline has relaunched the route due to demand for passenger connections to India, which account for 25% of its bookings between New York and Paris. Eric Caron, senior vice president and general manager of Air France, assured Simple Flying that the decision to open the route to Newark had nothing to do with the difficulty of obtaining slots at John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK).

Caron revealed at the same outlet that it plans to open routes on the US West Coast and commented on its current operation in the country. “We just opened Austin in Amsterdam and reopened Dallas Fort Worth in Paris. We now have three gateways in Texas with Austin, Dallas and Houston,” she said.

as reported REPORTUR.it The number of passengers that Iberia carries to the USA is still a long way from those carried by Lufthansa and Air France, the main European airlines on these transoceanic flights. (Lufthansa and Air France-KLM triple Iberia again in seats to the USA).

While the Spanish occupied 303,405 seats in the quarter, the French added 903,927 and the Germans 1,010,396, according to Expansión.