Starting 03 November 2011, Air France will offer the nonstop flight from Paris-Charles de Gaulle - Capetown. The new route will be served three times a week with a Boeing B777-200 airplane and completes the Air France network in South Africa. Adding to the A380 flights to Johannesburg, Air France, in cooperation with KLM, will then offer a total of 24 weekly flights to South Africa.
This new route launch is part of Air France and KLM’s expansion policy on the African continent, with 4 new destinations in 2011: Freetown(Sierra Leone), Monrovia (Liberia), Bata (Equatorial Guinea) and CPT. These new destinations bring the number of cities in Africa served in winter 2011 to 38.
On their entire networks, Air France and KLM are offering 12 new destinations in 2011. Flight schedules:
CDG CPT flight AF 934 – Departure at 10:40am – Arrival in Cape Town at 10:50pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Cape Town CDG: AF 935 – Departure at 1:15am – Arrival at Paris-CDG at 11:35am on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
For more details or to make a booking go to www.airfrance.com, call 36 54 (0.34€ incl. tax per min from a landline), or contact your travel agent.
Air France and KLM in South Africa: - Air France operates a daily flight by Airbus A380 between Paris and Johannesburg as well as 3 weekly flights by Boeing 777 between Parisand Cape Town (as from 3 November 2011). - KLM operates a daily flight between Amsterdam and Cape Town as well as a daily flight between Amsterdam and Johannesburg. KLM operates both these routes by Boeing 777.
Earlier last month, Emirates announced an additional daily flight to and from Cape Town. Earlier this year, Edelweiss Air had also announced a new seasonal flight program from Zurich to Cape Town with non-stop flights twice a week from the end of October 2011 for their winter timetable.
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