Air France adds a fourth daily flight between Paris and Montreal

Air France announced that it is moving forward with its plan to further develop the Canadian market, with the addition of a fourth departure from Montreal to Paris Charles de Gaulle effective the summer of 2009.

The extra flight as of May 4 increases the number of daily departures in summer from 3 to 4, and from 2 to 3 in winter as of October 29. This represents an 11% overall increase in seat capacity for the summer season, and a new total of 1 280 seats daily during the peak period.

Now with 28 weekly flights, Montreal will be second only to New York City as the Air France long haul destination with the most flights.

The extra fourth flight provides travellers who fly Air France or any of the partner airlines with even more scheduling options. It opens up new possibilities of connecting flights to Cairo, Amman, Jeddah, Dakar, Lagos, Nouakchott, Brazzaville, Delhi and Mumbai.

“With four daily flights, you’ll be seeing a lot of Air France at the Montreal-Trudeau airport between Noon and 11 p.m. Our e-services will help make sure everything runs smoothly, giving passengers the opportunity to obtain their boarding pass online (airfrance.ca) 30 hours before their scheduled departure,” indicated Bénédicte Duval, Air France Canada General Manager and Vice-President.

The Air France KLM Group reinforces the Group’s position in the Canadian market. Air France and KLM connect their Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa* passengers to Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam-Schiphol, respectively. KLM also operates flights out of Vancouver, and will begin flying out of Calgary as of May 3, 2009.

* Destination served by each airline’s shuttle bus to and from Montreal