Air France & Delta will team up to improve service between New York City and Paris.
Air France
- IATA/ICAO Code
- AF/AFR
- Airline Type
- Full Service Carrier
- Hub(s)
- Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
- Year Founded
- 1933
- Alliance
- SkyTeam
- Airline Group
- Air France-KLM
- CEO
- Anne Rigail
- Country
- France
Air France and Delta Air Lines are teaming up to provide nine daily flights between New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and Paris’ international airports of Charles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG) and Orly International Airport. Both airlines are part of the SkyTeam airline alliance, which means frequent flier air miles can be used on either airline. The goal is to give high quality airline options to connect New York City and Paris.
Service detail
Graphic: Airbus, via Delta Air Lines
The shuttle service will see flights departing at frequencies of every couple of hours. In Paris, this runs from early morning to early evening, while in New York departures commence early afternoon and finish just before midnight.
Using local times, these are the departures as shared by the airlines:
- Departures from Paris Charles-de-Gaulle at 8:30, 10:30, 11:30, 13:30, 14:30, 16:30, 18:30, 19:30.
- Departures from New York-JFK at 16:30, 17:30, 18:30, 19:30, 21:00, 22:00, 23:00, 23:55.
The flights take about six hours and a half to make in real-time. Worth noting that there is a six hour time difference between the two cities, seasonal time zone adjustments notwithstanding. So a flight that left Paris Charles-de-Gaulle at 6:45 PM locally would arrive at New York’s JFK International at 9 PM locally. Meanwhile a flight that leaves JFK International at 6:30 PM would…