Why won’t Air France schedule the a350 out of jfk on more flights?
Nov 22, 2025 | 10:29 am
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Why won’t Air France schedule the a350 out of jfk on more flights?
Air France has 1 a350 flight to Newark, 1 to jfk at a really inconvenient hour, and 4-5 777s to jfk. Why not do jfk half a350 half 777 so passengers wouldn’t have to choose a different airport or bad time just to fly on the a350?
Nov 22, 2025 | 11:21 am
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^This.
A350 is suitable for long, thin routes. JFK is neither one of those. It is high premium demand, and only the 77W has P (La Premičre).
If you really want to fly the A350 to/from JFK, you can fly LH to MUC or AY to HEL, and make a correspondance to Paris or whatever other destination. Or you can fly AF from EWR but AF switches appareils frequently on most TATL routes so even then you should not bank on the initial résa.
A350 is suitable for long, thin routes. JFK is neither one of those. It is high premium demand, and only the 77W has P (La Premičre).
If you really want to fly the A350 to/from JFK, you can fly LH to MUC or AY to HEL, and make a correspondance to Paris or whatever other destination. Or you can fly AF from EWR but AF switches appareils frequently on most TATL routes so even then you should not bank on the initial résa.
Nov 22, 2025 | 2:45 pm
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^This.
A350 is suitable for long, thin routes. JFK is neither one of those. It is high premium demand, and only the 77W has P (La Premičre).
If you really want to fly the A350 to/from JFK, you can fly LH to MUC or AY to HEL, and make a correspondance to Paris or whatever other destination. Or you can fly AF from EWR but AF switches appareils frequently on most TATL routes so even then you should not bank on the initial résa.
A350 is suitable for long, thin routes. JFK is neither one of those. It is high premium demand, and only the 77W has P (La Premičre).
If you really want to fly the A350 to/from JFK, you can fly LH to MUC or AY to HEL, and make a correspondance to Paris or whatever other destination. Or you can fly AF from EWR but AF switches appareils frequently on most TATL routes so even then you should not bank on the initial résa.
Nov 22, 2025 | 2:56 pm
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AY tends to vary between A330 and A350, same with IB and Ita. Virgin Atlantic to London, Japan Airlines to Tokyo, Asiana to Seoul (soon to be integrated into Korean Air by then or a bit after Delta should have JFK-ICN with A350 I expect that to launch around 2026 2027 ish), Singapore Airlines to Singapore, Cathay Pacific to Hong Kong, some Qatar to Doha, some Etihad to Abu Dhabi, Air India to Delhi, Philippines Airlines to Manila, soon Qantas to Sydney all do A350s out of JFK.
Or to put it the other way, how many of those airlines you mention fly A350s to Paris?
Nov 22, 2025 | 4:51 pm
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None of those you mentioned are flights to Paris, yet you have an issue with flying from Newark rather than JFK. If you want to fly on an A350 and don't care about your destination then by all means hop on one of those. If you want to get to Paris on an A350 then it sounds like Newark it is.
Or to put it the other way, how many of those airlines you mention fly A350s to Paris?
Or to put it the other way, how many of those airlines you mention fly A350s to Paris?
Nov 23, 2025 | 12:58 am
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DL regularly schedules the A359 between ATL and LAX. If you position yourself, you can fly it without leaving your country. Otherwise fly LH to MUC, given it's off season, the prices should be pretty low and LH generally does not swap appareils as much, given MUC is their main A359 base.
Nov 24, 2025 | 3:04 am
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Nov 24, 2025 | 6:51 am
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Maybe he also put something in the KL, SK, VS and other boards to ask why they don‘t fly (more) A350s to JFK. Or it‘s a bot programmed by Airbus to promote its plane 🤣
My question back would be: why should they? If it was the best solution for them, they probably would.
Nov 24, 2025 | 1:38 pm
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