Ben Smith's expectations for ramping up operations
Apr 14, 20, 5:04 am
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Ben Smith's expectations for ramping up operations
Not sure this has already been posted somewhere (if so, forgive me):
In an interview https://www.latribune.fr/entreprises...se-844934.html Ben Smith expects the following capacity on the AFKL network:
In an interview https://www.latribune.fr/entreprises...se-844934.html Ben Smith expects the following capacity on the AFKL network:
- 20% in June
- 40% in July
- 60% in August
- 75% in the fourth quarter of the year
- A350 deliveries in May and June will happen
- No decision yet on A350/B787 deliveries due to happen later in the year
- A380 to leave fleet "earlier" (still not clear whether they are still flying and whether any of them will return to service when capacity is increased again)
- A220 deliveries due to start next autumn are maintained at least for the moment
- Expects that it will take two years for traffic to be back to 2019 levels (that is more optimistic than other large airlines' CEOs)
Apr 14, 20, 5:18 am
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Interesting. That also means that the schedule currently loaded from June will not be executed in that way, as it spans pretty much the 'regular' schedule. There will be large additional cuts in (most likely) frequencies and maybe some destinations.
Apr 14, 20, 6:31 am
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I wonder when they'll publish the schedules at least for the beginning of May. It's in a bit more than two weeks and currently the AF schedule is pretty much the "normal" one, i.e. the one that they would fly without Covid19 groundings.
Apr 14, 20, 7:13 am
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Apr 14, 20, 9:20 am
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Looks like they are starting to update the May schedule now. On Sunday they still showed CDG-YVR as running throughout May, and they are gone today. Interestingly, the flights seem to have just vanished rather than showing as cancelled on the status page of AF's website.
Apr 14, 20, 2:22 pm
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Apr 14, 20, 5:20 pm
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I had a CDG-JFK flight on Friday that I actually had to cancel! (I could have taken it since i'm a franco-us person, but it seemed less than advisable to a. fly / b. be in NYC.
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Apr 15, 20, 1:14 am
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I confirm that the schedules are updated, at least start to be updated, for the first two weeks of May. I checked several of my routes, and the flights are gone. What is strange though is that on some routes that they fly now in April they have no flights in the first half of May, and then the normal schedule for the second half of May.
Which leads me to conclude that they are in the process of updating. Removing all flights from one destination and then adding some back, no plans yet for the second half of May, and so on.
We should have more clarity in the next couple of days.
Which leads me to conclude that they are in the process of updating. Removing all flights from one destination and then adding some back, no plans yet for the second half of May, and so on.
We should have more clarity in the next couple of days.
Apr 15, 20, 2:59 am
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Apr 15, 20, 9:13 am
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