AF have announced that from June 11 they will be operating a three times daily route from CDG to BRS using ATR aircraft. Good news for BRS but interesting that AF will go into direct competition with Easyjet on this route and they feel there is enough pax loads on the route to have a daily 319 sortie plus 3x ATR sorties.
Si
By: DashQ - 15th May 2007 at 12:04
Don’t see why CDG should replace AMS, both have operated quite happily up here for a few years now, since AF returned to the route.
I was just thinking that with easyJet’s competition for point to point traffic on BRS-AMS, KLM would probably carry a very high proportion of transfer traffic rather than O&D, in which case AF and KLM would be ‘competing’ to a certain extent for connecting traffic at their respective hubs. Depends on the KLM route’s O&D/transfer ratio though, and I don’t have those figures so it’s just speculation.
By: Richard Taylor - 15th May 2007 at 08:12
ABZ is a mix of E145/F70/F100 just now. Delays to deliveries have meant that the lesser-spotted E195 has been a rare beast indeed. Think Regional have only been able to fly it up once to ABZ since the summer scheds.
Good luck to AF on the BRS route. Don’t see why CDG should replace AMS, both have operated quite happily up here for a few years now, since AF returned to the route.
By: DashQ - 14th May 2007 at 22:06
Maybe it’s part of the route network restructuring after the KLM-Air France merger as KLM have had an AMS-BRS feeder for years. Perhaps it will replace the KLM service? Anyone know of plans for the AMS route to be dropped?
By: mmemovements - 14th May 2007 at 20:54
Look at the success that Aberdeen has been for AF.
Started not long ago with E145 and has gone through E145>FK70>F100>E190 which is a hell of an increase in very little time at all (about a year and a half I think)
Scott
By: Si Jones - 14th May 2007 at 16:28
AF will carry very little passengers from BRS only as far as CDG.
They will no doubt fill it up with passengers travelling onwards around the world so they should do quite well I believe.
Shamrock,
Your probably right, AF must be using it as a feeder service for CDG.
Si
By: SHAMROCK321 - 14th May 2007 at 12:24
AF will carry very little passengers from BRS only as far as CDG.
They will no doubt fill it up with passengers travelling onwards around the world so they should do quite well I believe.
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