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Air France to serve San Francisco with A380
Air France to serve San Francisco with A380 - Business Traveller
The French flag carrier will join Lufthansa as the second airline to operate A380 flights to San Francisco, with a daily service over the summer period.
The carrier will offer daily A380 flights between Paris CDG and the Californian city from June 6 until September 4, departing Paris at 1030 and arriving at 1240. The return leg leaves San Francisco at 1610, landing back into the French capital at 1135 the next day.
Business Traveller understands Air France may make this new superjumbo service possible by redeploying its A380 aircraft operating on the Paris CDG-Tokyo route, as a result of the fall in demand for flights to Japan following the country’s earthquake and tsunami.
Lufthansa is set to become the first carrier to fly the A380 to San Francisco next month, with a daily service (replacing the current B747-400 on the route) starting on May 10 – see online news
January 27 for more information.
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Sink r8
That's actually an example of the JV working, without hurting us, for a change. We're not dropping a route for this to happen, we don't really have a competitive product to offer against LH's A380 anyway... so why not? Maybe it keeps people going for Skyteam miles, and maybe those people need to go to Japan using our flights at some other time.
I agree, and with the cutting of the AMM and CAI flights, we are going to have to get a bunch of other trans-atlantic flying to keep the ratios intact. Could mean the return of JFK/ATL to CDG flying to our guys, or maybe some more off-hub Europre flying like the PIT/BOS/PHL to CDG and BOS/MIA to LHR flying.
No matter what, I plan on hearing from DALPA soon on how that affects the Protocol Agreement WRT the JV and how Delta Pilots are going to be protected with these shifts.
Boy oh boy, the Scope Compliance Committee certainly has lots of things to investigate lately!!