Braniff

Euro Atlantic appears to be taking over the Delhi route on a wet-lease basis. This is not just a one-off.

https://aviationa2z.com/index.php/20...delhi-flights/

dkc192

Seems like CS-TSX is a former AZ bird with unchanged interiors.

tecate55

Lol, that's an understatement. That one in Canada has been under repair after its tailstrike for nearly 4 months!

Braniff

India seems to be a difficult market for Air France.

I flew with them to Mumbai recently and the flight was only half full, a rare sight these days on any airline. Coming back, they had substituted a COI configured plane.

One would think Air India’s woes would be an opportunity for AF but they seem rather to use it as an excuse to lower the quality of its own offering.

sehgalanuj

Both AF and KL's flights to/from DEL go full almost all the time. It's a route I take quite frequently, and have several others I know using as well. Other airports are not so easy for the most part because a lot of the international traffic out of India is one that connects to other locations in the west, e.g. US and Canada, but most of the traffic originating for these destinations comes from North India, rather than Central or South India. In fact, India is also one of the markets outside of Europe where AFKL have a decent amount of staff that is their own, and not outsourced to another company. There are ebbs and flows in the overall demand, depending on the season, but in DEL, BLR and even BOM the normal thing to see is packed flights.

Goldorak

It was already discussed in another thread. It’s a lease until Aug 4 because AF doesn’t have enough planes. Nothing related to potential difficulties in the Indian market.
https://www.afkl.biz/trade/s/news-de..._US&country=FR

Braniff

I realize it is because of a shortage of planes per the article I linked.

My comment related more to the fact that they chose to downgrade the Delhi route to Euro Atlantic rather than other routes.