Un New air player, French Bee, enters Paris-Montréal online with a low-cost price grid (from 175 euros go simple). The company, a subsidiary, like Air Caraïbes, of the Vendée group Dubreuil, started its service on April 30 with four frequencies per week which will drop to five in the summer before returning to four in autumn.
The only company to serve Canada from Orly, it only puts new Airbus online: A350-900 of 411 seats (35 Premium and 376 Eco Blue). The other two A350-1000 of its fleet, with 480 seats (40 Premium and 440 Eco Blue), are dedicated to the service of Reunion. Partly tax exempt, these devices can only fly on the DROM network (departments and overseas regions).
French Bee, who had already expanded the travel market to the Antilles, Reunion or Polynesia, has, from the Olympic Games, a new asset with line 14 of the Paris metro. This arrives in Orly at the foot of Terminal 4, where the company operates.
Donald Trump’s announcements wanting to make his North American neighbor a 51e State had the effect of postponing part of the traffic between the two countries. In March, reservations dropped from 70 % of Canada to the United States compared to the same month a year ago.
Air Canada has adjusted some of its flights to the United States, mainly to leisure destinations, using smaller planes or by reducing certain frequencies. At the same time, the capacity towards other destinations, such as Paris, Rome, Athens or Edinburgh has been increased.
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The Trump effect touched Europe. In Germany, the tourist specialist in North America, America Unlimited, found a 70 % increase in reservations to Canada while demand for holidays in the United States decreased by 5 %.
-Air France, with up to three flights per day for Montreal from Roissy-CDG, has considerably strengthened its capacities to Canada adding 25 % more seats compared to the forefront. Since this month of May and during the summer, the French company has also served Quebec City three times a week.
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Air Canada, for its part, has assured the Paris-Montreal link since 1958 non-stop. This summer, two daily flights from Roissy-CDG, there will be four to five flights per week from Toulouse, Lyon and Nice to Montreal as well as ten Toronto-Paris.
Air Transat, a company from a Canadian tour operator, offers up to seventeen flights per week from Roissy-CDG to Montreal as well as four Roissy-Québec flights per week. Particularity of Air Transat: the flights, numerous from the province, are provided in season from Bordeaux, Toulouse, Marseille, Nice, Mulhouse and Nantes from two to seven times a week and daily from Lyon.
