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AF opening route to TBS in the summer
Great move! Twice a week only (days 3 and 7 from CDG, 1 and 4 from TBS with the aircraft spending the night at TBS) but unlike most airlines , civilised timings (outbound flight leaves around 1pm and lands around 8pm, return leaves at 9am) although that's at the cost of a "wasted" night for the bird unless AF are planning something else we don't know about.
Great country and city to visit and quite hard to get to (TK has cornered most of the market along the patchy local airline, LH, SU, LO, and AZ all have a presence but not a great one, and QR and EK to the East). Flights will be in A320.
I wonder if the (formerly French) new President has something to do with the change of context!