Air France adds flights on Vietnam-Paris routes

Air France announced on Tuesday it would add two more flights on its routes from Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi to Paris in the summer flight schedule. With the two new flights, the French aviation company will have seven weekly flights from the two Vietnamese cities to Paris from March 28 to October 30. Air France flies the Ho Chi Minh City -Paris route on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays while the Hanoi -Paris route is scheduled for the other days of the week. Earlier, Air France said it would temporary suspend its non-stop flights linking the two Vietnamese cities to Paris between March 28 and Oct. 30, 2005. Instead, it will service the flights with a stopover in Bangkok for one and a half hours. The airline declared that their code-share contract with Vietnam Airlines for the non-stop flights from Vietnam to Paris would start up again from Oct. 31, 2005 to March 27, 2006. Since Air France’s merger with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in 2003, the French airline will also represent KLM in its Vietnam flight services as of April 1, 2005.