by Donald Wood
Last updated: 8:50 AM ET, Mon March 25, 2024
As the world prepares for the 2024 Summer Olympics from Paris
between July 26 and August 11, Air
France is expanding service to the United States and North America to
support the increased demand.
Air France is a partner for the 2024
Olympic and Paralympic Games. As a result, the carrier will expand long-haul
international capacity by nine percent and expand flights to 85 destinations in
total.
In North America, Air France will resume once-daily service to
Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is inaugurating a new direct service between Paris
Charles de Gaulle Airport and Phoenix, Arizona, three times a week aboard a
Boeing 787-9.
The French airline is also extending the direct service to
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, which it inaugurated in winter 2023, and upping
the number of weekly flights to seven from three during the winter season.
In addition, Air France revealed that it would add two special
flights between Los Angeles, California, and Nice, France,
on Airbus A350-900s for the Cannes Film Festival. The flights will offer the carrier’s
latest overhauled long-haul cabins.
The airline is scheduled to fly over 210 times weekly
flights to the U.S. this summer, serving 17 destinations: Atlanta, Boston,
Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New
York JFK, New York Newark, Phoenix, Raleigh Durham, San Francisco, Seattle, and
Washington.
For travelers north of the border, Air France will operate
close to 60 flights to five Canadian cities: Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa,
Toronto, and Vancouver.
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