Air France tri-weekly Chennai-Paris service from October-end

Chennai: Air France will begin its direct tri-weekly Paris-Chennai-Paris flights from October-end.
The carrier now offers direct daily services to Mumbai and Delhi and five times a week to Bangalore.
The Chennai link would open up new vistas for the business and leisure travellers from Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Pondicherry. Air France already had commercial tie-ups with Indian (formerly Indian Airlines) and Jet Airways to act as "hub and spoke" feeder carriers from various southern regional destinations.
Air France would increase capacity by 35 per cent. Depending upon the response to the thrice-a-week Chennai flight, the airline would make it a daily service. The airline would commence the 291-seater Airbus-340 jet operations to Chennai on October 30.
31/08/06 T.S.Shankar/The Hindu

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