In a couple of days, ultra low cost carrier French Bee will begin flying between Paris and Miami, bringing some much needed competition to the market.
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French Bee will rely entirely on point to point traffic and low yield traffic.
The AF flight operates as a joint venture with Delta, Virgin and KLM, with a lot of connecting traffic, especially from the U.K. Scandinavia and Germany. Lots of cruise customers, ship crew as well as corporate. They also feature La Premiere cabin.
In addition AF operates from Miami to Guadeloupe. There was a service to Haiti, although now that country is highly dangerous and wouldn’t be surprised if it’s suspended.
But French Bee has a codeshare with Eastern…in case you want to fly from Orly via Miami to Santo Domingo…
Regarding AA, but I believe their MIA-CDG flights only became seasonal this year due to the 787 delivery delays. Since they were short a few planes, they had to trim their summer schedule a bit (shuffling a few 772s and 787s around) and MIA-CDG was one of the casualties. I’m not sure if the route is set to resume this summer or not. That could still be TBD.
The AA summer 2023 schedule has NOT yet been finalized . Right now they are at the mercy of Boeing, waiting for 787 aircraft delivery dates to be finalized…these 787 aircraft have been almost delayed 2 years because of Boeings problems…….several routes did not operate summer 2022 because of aircraft shortages
Why are they set on MIA-ORLY?? MCO- would be a better destination flight imo.
Though MCO being a tourist destination, it may be out of their budget to operate flts in and out of there…
Miami is only trans Atlantic route that is 1:1 summer-winter every other trans Atlantic route is summer heavy even NYC-london
I agree. Orlando doesn't have any nonstop service to Paris, which is actually quite surprising to me. AF used to operate there a long time ago, and more recently Norwegian had a flight but that stopped when they went bankrupt. I'm sure there is enough demand for a flight, even if it's seasonal and not daily.
I'm surprised Corsair or French Bee haven't picked up that opportunity, let alone Air France which can offer connections.
Air France Actually flies up to 3x a week from Miami to Paris during the winter! The extra third service is flown Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays.
Miami used to have some great low cost options to Europe in the 90's, like Balair to Zurich, Martinair to Amsterdam, as well as some very well priced consolidator fares to Paris on Air France. Now Miami has a lot more mainline service so the tradeoff has some benefits.
"Why are they set on MIA-ORLY?"
The unsurprising answer, being that demand between France and S.Florida has historically been far stronger than to central Florida.
The fact that it has been flown and dropped and never been permanent should tell you all you need to know about the (lack of) demand between Orlando and Paris. French want to go to beaches in the winter, not ripoff theme parks in a swamp.
It's about time that an additional airline add year round service.
Now, don't be shocked to see American add year round service to try and knock French Bee out of the market.
I flew Balair many times and it felt interchangeable with Swissair. Are there any consolidators that offer a better price to Zurich or Paris now?
Sorry bud, my travel agent days in Miami are long gone. I'd suggest contacting some local travel agents since they should be in the know.
A lot of European airlines fly to MIA only in the winter, which is the opposite of other transatlantic markets. Aer Lingus, KLM, SAS (on all routes), and Finnair (on all routes) are all ones that come to mind.
The Miami market more or less follows the snowbird market in where the high season is winter. Summer time its too hot.