Air France has just revealed plans to launch a new route to the United States, and I don’t think this addition will shock anyone.
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I think Air France has served Orlando in the past, so if so this is a service resumption.
It makes sense - there arent that many other destinations they dont serve.
Disappointed that TPA didn’t get the route! AF tried Orlando few years ago and it didn’t workout plus AF already flies to MIA and there’s a bright line train connecting to MCO - TPA desperately needed this route!
Rather Euro-centric view, as MCO has quite a bit of longhaul service to (deep) South America as well.
That said, this is a resumption for AF. They (strangely) tried to launch the route with a COI 777-300ER last time, and (to no one's surprised) failed to fill such enormous capacity to yield.
Interestingly enough, this will be the only year-round route connecting Orlando with another city that has its own Disney Land.
Currently the only other one is a highly seasonal flight to SNA airport on Breeze Airways.
@ZTravel I too would have preferred a CDG-TPA flight as Delta only offers AMS-TPA but I hope that MCO works out well for them. I've been really impressed with Air France crews, catering and the 350-900 business class configuration. Much better than flying United who still don't have any direct connections from Florida to Europe. I've flown BA a couple of times into MCO and it was the earliest I could get into central Florida as all other flight required a connection.
Let’s see if Ben has the balls to report the fight on a BA flight from LHR to AUS. No he won’t. A woman in her 40s asked an older woman to take off her red maga had. When she refused the younger woman punched her lights out.
AF's 350s - despite being only a few years old - have no power outlets in economy. I avoid that eqp specifically for that reason.
Unless the airline did something really unreasonable as a response, then who gives a shit? Stupid passengers fight over stupid things, all the time.
Why would United have a nonstop from Florida to Europe? They don't fly from any non hub anywhere to Europe- why would Florida be the exception?
Why would he do that? It's on live and let's fly, which is appropriate given the increasingly clickbait nature of that site
coupled w/ AMS-TPA on DL and VS and DL MCO-LHR , it seems that AF/DL/KL/VS are making a push for Central Florida. They have always done well there thanks in part to the size of ATL but adding nonstops helps free up seats in ATL for other traffic from other parts of the country.
To get that revenue. I frankly could care less if United offers a direct flight from Florida to Europe. But Delta does from TPA to AMS. So that's who I'm flying in business. And if I need to go to Orlando it will be BA or now Air France.
UA pulls enough revenue through IAD from FL, their business model does not require ex FL - Europe.
DL flies TPA-AMS due to decent FL-based freq flyers, and the flight is set up overall for x AMS (connections).
That's not true.
AF has two A350 configurations: the low-premium version (34J seats) does have universal AC outlets in economy, as well as USB-A.
The high-premium version (48J) does not have AC outlets in economy, but does offer USB-A and USB-C in each economy seat.
A few thoughts:
- This is actually a route resumption for Air France. I also know that AF and BA once did a dual simultaneous landing of their respective Concordes at MCO a few decades ago. Glad to see AF back in Central Florida!
- I wonder whether Air France will operate out of the newer Terminal C at MCO, or if they will use Airside 4 with Delta. Most long-haul international airlines at MCO have at this point transitioned operations to Terminal C (and they are currently expanding the terminal as well). However, Virgin Atlantic and LATAM are the two exceptions, as they stayed in the old terminals. I believe this was so they could facilitate easier connections from Delta flights (so those passengers wouldn't have to clear security again and transfer terminals). However, not too long ago, I saw that some Virgin Atlantic flights at MCO had moved to Airside 1 for some reason. The signs at MCO still indicate that this is the case. That made no sense to me, because that means that they are using older terminals for no reason, and if they aren't in the same terminal as Delta, they might as well utilize Terminal C (which does have gate space in the evenings and at night). However, I think it's more likely AF will use Airside 4 with Delta.
They will most likely be using Airside 4 where Delta operates out of. Delta employees work LATAM and Virgin flights and will presumably work the AF flights as well.
Would LOVE to see TPA-CDG on DL or AF. That would shave hours off of my thrice yearly visits to my beloved France !
Welcome back to MCO! Happy to have one more option to Europe from here (which are not a lot outside of flights to UK).
While I wish TPA/CDG would be Air France, I'd even take Delta just to eliminate the two flight shuffle to get there from here. TPA is a desert for travel to continental Europe on quality carriers: I mean, seriously, who wants to fly on Discover? Our next trip to Paris is DL to JFK, and AF to Paris, and then we have to do the reverse via Boston.
@Jordan. You are missing the point that I was making which was that flyers like myself are precisely not willing to book a business class ticket through IAD or EWR to get to Florida because we can fly to our destination from Europe. So United isn't getting my business or that of many other travellers because they are uncompetitive. Who wants to fly longer and get later to a destination? Makes zero sense.
I know Virgin Atlantic has its own check-in and passenger service staff at MCO. I don't know about the ground handlers though. It would make sense for them to be DL staff rather than having a third party handling agency.
Or you can get away from your devices for just a handful of hours, and take care of your business after landing.
A pretty safe option, in my view. Orlando has always had a huge holiday traffic of Europeans heading to Disneyworld or just wanting to enjoy the sunny weather. I wonder which cities will come up next. Maybe Nashville, Austin, Tampa, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, etc.?