A quanto pare AF aprirà Parigi-Ho Chi Minh non-stop dalla prossima stagione invernale.
Attualmente i voli CDG-Hanoi e CDG-Ho Chi Minh di AF sono operati via Bangkok.
In an OFFICIAL Internal press communication, received yesturday April 2nd 2010 :
Air France confirms they have signed a codeshare agreement with VietNam Airlines who is about to join the SkyTeam Alliance.
AF and VN will codeshare on all 13 weekly flights operated between France and Vietnam.
For the Winter 2010, Air France will drop HAN (and will only codeshares with VN on the HAN-CDG-CDG flight) but will resume CDG-SGN-CDG nonstop,
starting with 3 x Weekly frequencies operated with a B744. The flights will be later operated with a B773ER (in a 3 Class J/W/Y config).
Currently, AF operates 4 x Weekly CDG-BKK-SGN + 3 x weekly CDG-BKK-HAN.
AF will keep a daily flight CDG-BKK-CDG.
Initially planned flight numbers for this new service mentioned in the other thread changed, so here is the updated plan:
AF144 CDG SGN 2325 1655 B744 days 2, 4, 6
AF153 SGN CDG 2235 0540 B744 days 3, 5, 7
The CDG BKK service will now be a daily terminator service, also with new flight numbers:
AF242 CDG BKK 1915 1225 A343 daily
AF241 BKK CDG 2320 0605 A343 daily