Ryanair: Bordeaux – Rome Ciampino

Bordeaux (BOD) to Rome Ciampino (CIA) is a new route offered by Ryanair (FR) since 30 October 2011, to be operated with the company's 189-seater Boeing 737-800 aircraft on a four-times-weekly basis.

Ryanair already operate a small number of routes from Bordeaux Airport's low-cost terminal 'Billi' and Rome Ciampino will be the sixth destination Ryanair serves from the airport, the second destination in Italy after Bologna.

The flights could potentially be of use to business travellers, however on the whole the route will likely attract leisure passengers in much higher numbers. The schedule enables a variety of trip lengths.

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Ryanair's main competition on the route will be Air France's route to Rome Fiumicino, with daily flights operated by Regional. easyJet also operate flights to Milan Malpensa from Bordeaux.

Ryanair vient d'inaugurer une ligne entre Bordeaux (BOD) et Rome Ciamipino (CIA). La ligne est desservie quatre fois par semaine depuis le 30 octobre dernier en Boeing 737-800 de 189 places.

La ligne pourrait attirer une partie du marché affaires vers Rome, mais une ligne vers l'autre aéroport à Rome, celui de Fiumicino, par Air France/Régional est opérée 7 fois par semaine, plus adapté à la clientèle affaires. La ligne devrait cependant attirer un bon nombre de voyageurs loisirs des deux côtés de la ligne. Les horaires des vols permettent des séjours de durées variables.

Vueling: Nantes - Venice

Nantes (NTE) to Venice (VCE) is a route to be launched by Vueling (VY), announced as part of Vueling's huge route expansion into France. The Spanish low-cost carrier aims to operate this service three times weekly with 180-seater Airbus A320 aircraft from 27 March 2012.

Vueling currently operates to Barcelona from Nantes, but it plans to open 3 new routes from Nantes next March. The route to Venice, perhaps the most questionable of the three in terms of viability, is not operated regularly by any other airline at the moment, although XL Airways France occasionally operates charter flights on the route. It will be presumably be aimed at the leisure market, as the timetable is somewhat incompatible with business schedules. That is not to say that business passengers will be deterred if the flights are convenient.

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Venice currently has flights to many of the major French cities, with Paris, Lyon (both by Air France and easyJet), Marseille (by Air Corsica), Nice (by Darwin Airlines) and Toulouse (by Vueling) also being served. However, from Nantes, the only Italian destination served is Milan Malpensa, by Régional.
Nantes (NTE) vers Venise (VCE) est une nouvelle ligne qui sera opérée par Vueling (VY) dès le 27 mars 2012. Destinée surtout aux voyageurs loisirs, cette ligne n'a aucune concurrence régulière, mis à part quelques vols de la compagnie XL Airways France.

Ryanair: Marseille – Milan Bergamo

Marseille (MRS) to Milan Bergamo (BGY) is a new route that was launched by Ryanair (FR) on 30 October 2011. It is flown 10 times weekly (very frequently for a Ryanair route, especially a new one) with the standard 189-seater Ryanair Boeing 737-800 equipment. Bergamo airport is situated about an hour's drive outside of Milan.

The route links the second-largest cities of France and Italy, separated by 400km (250mi) of quite mountainous terrain. The trip can take up to five and a half hours by car. The route has a decent leisure and business potential, and the schedules take full advantage of this. Unusually well-timed for Ryanair flights, the scheduling permits day returns on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and a choice of flights which would be handy for weekend breaks. 

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..3..../ FR6063/ BGY19.40-20.50MRS/ FR6064/ MRS21.15-22.25BGY

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Historically, the route has not seen a great deal of traffic. The route to Milan Malpensa (MXP), Milan's main airport has been continuously served for almost a decade by the almost-completely-unheard-of airline Twinjet (T7), which despite its name operates only tiny 19-seater Beech 1900D aircraft on a variety of marginal French routes. It has 9 flights a week (double-daily Monday to Thursday, one on Friday) but the pricing makes the flights only really suitable to business travellers.

A couple of years ago, Baboo (F7) started flights on the same route, with a double daily frequency on a triangle route from Geneva (GVA-MRS-MXP-GVA in the mornings, the opposite direction in the evenings)with considerably larger 74-seater Dash 8-Q400 aircraft. However, the route did not last more than a couple of seasons.
Now, Ryanair will also face competition from the recently launched Air France flights, which also operate directly into Malpensa airport. Originally scheduled to be operated with mainline Air France aircraft (therefore much larger aircraft), for an undisclosed reason (probably lack of demand because of Ryanair competition) the flights have been downgraded to the much smaller 46-seater ATR 42 aircraft of Airlinair, which link the two cities twelve times a week.


Marseille (MRS) vers Milan Bergame (BGY) est une nouvelle ligne de la compagnie à bas coûts Ryanair (FR), qui a été lancé le 30 octobre 2011. La ligne est effectuée avec un appareil Boeing 737-800 de 189 places, à raison de 10 vols hebdomadaires.

Ce vol reliera les deuxièmes villes de la France et l'Italie, qui sont distants de 400km. Les horaires de vols permettent un retour dans la journée les lundis, mercredis et vendredis, et un ample choix de vols pour partir un weekend.

La concurrence sur cette ligne vole sur l'aéroport de Malpensa (MXP), plus proche de Milan que celui de Bergame ; des vols sont proposés par Twinjet, 9 fois par semaine et par Air France, une nouveauté récente qui relie les deux villes douze fois par semaine.

Passengers boarding a Ryanair Boeing 737-800

Swiss: Geneva-Nice

Geneva (GVA) to Nice (NCE) by Swiss (LX) is a new route that the Swiss national airline will be launching on 10 February 2012 to be operated with 136-seater Airbus A320 aircraft. This new twice-daily route will mark the company's tenth based aircraft at Geneva, which will enable increases in frequency of flights to other destinations from Geneva, such as Madrid and Moscow Domodedovo.

Despite the fact that the two cities are only 300km (185 mi) apart, poor land connections due to the Alps as a physical barrier mean that passenger numbers on this route are quite high (311,940 passengers in 2010⁽¹⁾), so the Swiss flights should be able to find their niche. No other legacy carrier serves this route, however, easyJet Switzerland (DS) flies up to three times daily in the winter and up to four times daily in the summer, and Darwin (F7), formerly Baboo, flies two-to-four times weekly year-round, but with smaller aircraft. Swiss' intervention on this route may well put Darwin, the smaller, less well-known airline, at a disadvantage and leave it with no choice but to abandon the route, as has previously happened in similar circumstances with destinations such as Prague and Athens when they were operated by Baboo.

1234567/ LX520/ GVA09.00-10.00NCE/ LX521/ NCE10.35-11.35GVA

1234567/ LX528/ GVA17.35-18.35NCE/ LX529/ NCE19.15-20.15GVA

The Geneva-Nice route sees a fairly large amount of both business and leisure passengers overall, with a slight penchant towards leisure for the summer months. Nice will also be Swiss' first French destination from its Geneva base; due to the configuration of Geneva Airport, flights to France depart from a separate area.
Genève (GVA) vers Nice (NCE) est une nouvelle ligne de Swiss (LX) au départ de sa base à Genève, dont le premier départ aura lieu le 10 février 2012. Le vol sera effectué 2 fois par jour en Airbus A320 de 136 places.

Genève et Nice ne sont qu'à 300km l'un de l'autre mais la chaînes des Alpes est une barrière naturelle rendant le trafic aérien entre ces deux villes très rentable avec un nombre élevé de passagers affaires et loisirs. Swiss aura easyJet Switzerland (DS) et Baboo (F7) en tant que concurrents.

  http://www.gva.ch/fr/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-437/1150_read-9555/

⁽¹⁾http://issuu.com/gva-airport/docs/ra2010fr

Swiss Aircraft at Geneva Airport

Darwin Airline Q400 at Nice boarding for a flight to Geneva.

Ryanair: Manchester - Béziers

Manchester (MAN) to Béziers (BZR) is one of the routes that Ryanair (FR) is launching as part of its new base in Manchester. From 26 March 2012, Ryanair will fly the route twice weekly with its standard 189-seater Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

Ryanair will be launching a host of similar French routes from Manchester next March, and these will be covered in later posts. The route to Béziers, located in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of Sothern France was a fairly predictable ‘sun’ route, and will be undoubtedly popular with holidaymakers and second-home owners heading to southern France; the route will most likely only be available for the summer season (until October 2012). The timings are ideal for weekend breaks.

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Béziers already has UK flights to Bristol (BRS) and London Stansted (STN) provided by Ryanair, in addition to services to Southampton (SOU), introduced last summer, provided by Flybe (BE).

Dès le 26 mars prochain, Ryanair inaugure une nouvelle ligne depuis sa base à Manchester (MAN), vers Béziers (BZR). La ligne sera effectuée deux fois par semaine avec l’appareil standard de Ryanair : le Boeing 737-800  de 189 places. La ligne est surtout destinée aux vacanciers britanniques séjournant dans la région Languedoc-Roussillon et aux alentours.

http://www.ryanair.com/en/news/ryanair-announces-new-base-no-45-in-manchester

Skyways: Berlin TXL-Geneva

Berlin Tegel (TXL) to Geneva (GVA), a route to be opened by Skyways (JZ) of Sweden, is a curious one. Back in Spring 2011, the small Swedish regional carrier that hadn't ventured much outside its country's borders did something very strange by announcing a route between Geneva and Jönköping (JKG). The airline even sent out a press release concerning it, in Swedish, justifying the completely barmy route between Geneva, the midsize Swiss city on the shores of Lake Leman, and Jönköping, a comparatively small Southern Swedish town, with a small airport handling an even smaller number of international flights. At the time, this seemed all the more ridiculous because Geneva didn't (and still doesn't) have links to Gothenburg, a much larger centre of population in Southern Sweden.

The service was later rectified to operate via Berlin Tegel, scheduled to be operated from the 20^th of June 2011 with 50-seater Embraer E-145 aircraft. The aircraft choice in itself was surprising, because Skyways didn't own any of that aircraft at the time. However, that wasn't the only problem. The launch date was pushed back, and the schedule changed entirely so that the route did not even start in Jönköping, but relied on a based aircraft in Berlin.

The route launch was pushed back on several occasions, rolling the start date back through July, then September and October before finally ending up on 25^th March 2012. During this time, although the flights were bookable on each date, the schedule that could be found on Skyways' website was not the one that could be found on many of the other websites. Some suggested that the route would be operated with the aircraft based in Geneva. Some alternatively had different timings for the flights. These were even available right up until 2 weeks before the intended October start date, the deadline at which an airline cannot cancel its flights without having to rebook passengers. Altogether, the Skyways booking experience has not been a particularly reliable one. Without intending to redeem it, the company has faced several upheavals as of late, being bought out by an Ukrainian oligarch who then integrated the Gothenburg-based City Airline (no, they didn't fly to Geneva either, but they did fly to Lyon) into the comparatively-sized Skyways.

At present, Skyways plans to operate its Berlin-Geneva flights with 50-seater CRJ-200 aircraft from Cimber Air, another small Scandinavian carrier, from the 25^th of March 2011. The route hasn't been operated in the past decade; Berlin-Geneva has only been going since easyJet (U2/DS) launched a Geneva-Berlin Schönefeld (SXF) route back in November 2004. The Skyways flight, which will be operated 10 times weekly, is suited to the business traveller, although timings are also appropriate for weekend breaks and Berlin-Geneva is fairly popular with tourists as well as business travellers.

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1.3.5../ JZ4010/ TXL16.10-17.50GVA/ JZ4015/ GVA18.20-19.55TXL

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These flights are operated as a joint venture with airBaltic (BT) and as such carry the BT code. Significantly, airBaltic no longer serves Geneva as of summer 2011.

In spite of Skyways' well-earned reputation for delaying flight launches, it remains to be seen if this route actually gets underway before Berlin Tegel airport closes altogether on 3 June 2012, when all operations will move to Berlin Brandenburg Airport.

Après de nombreux délais, la compagnie suédoise Skyways semble avoir enfin décidé qu'elle inaugurera sa ligne Genève (GVA)-Berlin Tegel (TXL) le 25 mars 2012. La date a été repoussée plusieurs fois, initialement prévu en tant que Genève-Jönköping pour un début le 20 juin 2011. La route sera opérée par des appareils CRJ-200 de 50 places de la compagnie scandinave Cimber Air.

La liaison Genève-Berlin existe seulement depuis novembre 2004, quand easyJet (DS/U2) inaugura une ligne vers Berlin Schönefeld (SXF). Avec des horaires qui sauront satisfaire tant qu'aux voyageurs affaires qu'aux touristes, la ligne a le potentiel d'attirer les parts des deux marchés, mais seulement si la compagnie réalise enfin sa promesse d'inaugurer ces vols avant la fermeture de l'aéroport de Berlin-Tegel le 3 juin 2012, qui laisse sa place à Berlin-Brandebourg, le nouvel aéroport unique berlinois. 

 

CityJet: London City-Avignon

CityJet (WX/AF), Air France's London City-based subsidiary that seems to be throwing darts at a map of France and launching routes wherever they stick as of late, launched two routes back in May, both to the Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur region in South-East France. London City (LCY) to Avignon (AVN)started back on 29 May 2011, on a somewhat pokey CityJet Avro RJ85 (the ones with a cruel 6-abreast seating plan).

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The timetable may seem fairly ridiculous, but do not fear, all shall be explained. The reason is that, although during the week CityJet can occupy their aircraft with business stuff, at the weekends not only are there few business passengers, but London City Airport is actually closed Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings. So CityJet had the brilliant idea of sending them off to France for the weekends, where they can operate charter routes for tour operators, such as Avignon-Figari (Corsica) as in this case. The RJ85 then trundles back up to London on a Sunday evening.
These times obviously encourage weekend breaks in Provence, and bring a bit more life to the otherwise lazy (but colourful) Avignon Airport, whose only other customer is Flybe, Jet2 having decided against returning this season.


 
Londres City (LCY) à Avignon (AVN), lancée fin mai par la compagnie CityJet (WX/AF) filiale d'Air France, était effectuée 1 fois par semaine cette dernière saison, avec des horaires encourageant les sorties pour un weekend en Provence.

 

Eastern Airways: Dijon-Nantes

Dijon (DIJ) to Nantes (NTE), Eastern Airways' (T3) latest route from its Dijon base, started on 16 May 2011, flown with a 29-seater Jetstream 31 aircraft. Facing no reasonable competition, the flight is operated 6 times a week.

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1234.../ T37303/ NTE14.00-15.40DIJ

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Dijon (DIJ) à Nantes (NTE), la ligne la plus récente de la compagnie Eastern Airways (T3) depuis sa base à Dijon (DIJ) a commencé le 16 mai 2011, effectué par un appareil Jetstream 31 de 29 sièges. Le vol, qui n'a aucun réel concurrent, est opéré 6 fois par semaine.

Toulouse (TLS) to Malaga (AGP), Vueling's (VY) final route from its recently opened Toulouse base, debuted on 23 April 2011 and is flown twice a week. The 920km route is flown with Airbus 319 aircraft. This route, owing in part to low frequency, should attract mainly tourist traffic to Southern Spain.
 Due to the recent terrible weather in most of France over July, these flights could well prove quite popular over the weeks to come. Notably, of the eight routes Vueling launched from Toulouse, five of which were to Spain, only two faced competition. This route to Malaga has a single weekly flight from Europe Airpost (5O) as competition, which to be frank isn't much.

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Toulouse (TLS) vers Malaga (AGP), la dernière ligne de la compagnie Vueling (VY) à être ouverte depuis sa base toute récente à Toulouse (TLS) a débuté le 23 avril 2011 et est opéré deux fois par semaine. La ligne longue de 920km est effectuée avec un appareil Airbus A319. La ligne, dû en partie à la basse fréquence, devrait attirer davantage de touristes vers l'Andalousie.
 En résultat du temps misérable dans une grande partie de la France en juillet, cette ligne devrait s'avérer assez populaire dans les semaines qui viennent. Notamment, des huit nouvelles lignes ouvertes par Vueling depuis Toulouse, dont cinq vers l'Espagne, seules deux faisaient face à une concurrence. Cette ligne vers Malaga a pour concurrence un seul vol hebdomadaire d'Europe Airpost (5O), ce qui n'est franchement pas beaucoup.

Lyon (LYS) to Yerevan (EVN) is the new route on offer from Armavia (U8), the national airline of the Near Eastern state of Armenia. Since 15 May 2011, the 3300km route has been operated every Sunday with an Airbus A319 aircraft, and will continue to be until the end of October.

 With a very low frequency of just one flight per week, the route is probably aimed at diaspora traffic between France's second city and the capital of Armenia, as well as tourism and to a limited extent, business traffic. As unlikely as traffic between France and Armenia might seem, this is Armavia's third route to France after Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) and Marseille Provence (MRS). In addition, Air France also flies to Yerevan from its base at Paris CDG. 

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Lyon (LYS) à Erevan (EVN) est une nouvelle ligne qu'offre Armavia (U8), la compagnie nationale de l'état d'Arménie au Proche-orient. Depuis le 15 mai 2011, la compagnie dessert la ligne longue de 3300km tous les dimanches avec un appareil Airbus A319, et continuera jusqu'à fin octobre.
 Avec une fréquence très basse d'un vol par semaine, la ligne est probablement destinée au marché de diaspora et les touristes, aussi qu'un marché plutôt négligeable de voyageurs affaires. Aussi peu important que pourrait paraître le marché France-Arménie, c'est la troisième ligne d'Armavia au départ de la France, après Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) et Marseille Provence (MRS). N'oublions pas qu'Air France dessert aussi Erevan depuis sa base à Roissy.

Since 6 May 2011, Ryanair (FR) has been linking Beauvais (BVA), FR near Paris with Lamezia Terme (SUF), IT in Calabria, Southern Italy. The thrice-weekly flight is operated by your standard Ryanair Boeing 737-800, based at Milan's Bergamo airport.
Judging from the scheduling of the route, which lasts until the end of the Summer Schedule in October, and the flight prices viewable on www.ryanair.com, this route is geared towards the Paris-originating leisure market, although the route does seem to be stimulating a small amount of traffic from the Calabria end.

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Depuis le 6 mai 2011 Ryanair (FR) relie Beauvais (BVA), FR près de Paris avec Lamezia Terme (SUF), IT en Calabre au sud de l'Italie. Le vol, à raison de trois rotations hebdomadaires, est opéré par un appareil Boeing 737-800, la norme chez Ryanair, basé à l'aéroport de Bergame proche de Milan.

D'après les horaires de la ligne, qui ne dure que jusqu'à la fin de l'Horaire d'Eté en Octobre, et les tarifs de vol disponibles sur www.ryanair.com, la ligne est surtout destinée au marché touristique originaire de Paris, même si la ligne semble générer un peu de trafic du côté de la Calabre.

Vueling: Toulouse-Prague

Since 24 April 2011, with the launch of its base at Toulouse (TLS), Vueling (VY), the low-cost branch of Iberia (IB) is now operating a four-times-weekly connection to Prague (PRG), the capital of the Czech Republic. The flights are operated with the airline's one Airbus A320 based at Toulouse.

Mon, Wed, Thu, Sun: VY9014 TLS07.20-09.25PRG / VY9015 TLS10.00-12.00PRG

The route, linking two important European cities, should attract reasonable amounts of passenger traffic from both ends, both business and leisure.


Depuis le 24 avril 2011, avec le lancement de sa base à Toulouse (TLS), Vueling (VY), la compagnie low-cost affiliée à Iberia (IB) effectue quatre vols par semaine vers Prague (PRG), capitale de la République Tchèque. Les vols sont opérés en Airbus A320, le seul aéronef basé jusqu'à présent par la compagnie espagnole à l'aéroport toulousain.

Lu, Me, Je, Di: VY9014 TLS07.20-09.25PRG / VY9015 TLS10.00-12.00PRG

La route, qui relie deux importantes villes européennes, devrait attire un bon nombre de voyageurs des deux extrémités de la ligne.

Ryanair: Charleroi (Brussels)-Biarritz

Three days ago, on 14 April 2011, Ryanair (FR) launched a route between Charleroi airport (CRL), south of Brussels and Biarritz-Anglet-Bayonne (BIQ), in the south-westernmost corner of France near the border with Spain. This route is operated twice weekly with a Boeing 737-800 aircraft, and acts as a replacement for Ryanair's previously operated Charleroi to Pau (PUF) service, which was discontinued because Pau airport stopped funding to Ryanair for the routes it maintained.

Tue: FR5331 CRL10.40-12.30BIQ / FR5332 BIQ12.55-14.45CRL

Sat: FR5331 CRL11.05-12.45BIQ / FR5332 BIQ13.10-15.00CRL

Similar to the Pau route, this connection will allow Belgian and northern French tourists to visit the Aquitaine region, but also for families to visit their others in the respective areas. There is no competition, direct or otherwise.
 
Il y a trois jours, le 14 avril 2011, Ryanair (FR) a inauguré une ligne direct entre l'aéroport de Charleroi (CRL), au sud de Bruxelles et Biarritz-Anglet-Bayonne (BIQ), dans l'extrême sud-ouest de la France, près de la frontière espagnole. La route sera effectuée deux fois par semaine avec un appareil Boeing 737-800, en tant que remplacement pour le vol Charleroi-Pau (PUF), que Ryanair a arrêtée tout récemment dû à la décision de l'aéroport de Pau de ne plus offrir de subvention à la compagnie irlandaise pour les lignes qu'elle opérait au départ de Pau.

Ma: FR5331 CRL10.40-12.30BIQ / FR5332 BIQ12.55-14.45CRL

Sa: FR5331 CRL11.05-12.45BIQ / FR5332 BIQ13.10-15.00CRL

Comme la ligne vers Pau, la liaison permettra aux touristes belges et du nord de la France de visiter la région d'Aquitaine, mais aussi aux familles de visiter leurs proches vivant dans les régions respectives.

Ryanair: Beauvais (Paris)-Béziers

From 14 April 2011, Ryanair (FR) will launch a four-times-weekly connection between Beauvais-Tillé (BVA), 120km to the north of Paris and Béziers-Cap d'Agde (BZR), on the French Mediterranean Coast in the Languedoc-Roussillon region. Just like every Ryanair route, Beauvais to Béziers will be operated with a Boeing 737-800 with 189 seats.

Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun: FR3116 BVA17.35-19.05BZR / FR3117 BZR19.30-21.00BVA

The route is mainly aimed at Parisian tourists heading to the South of France on holiday, but it will also be useful for families visiting relatives, and to a certain extent business travellers. The route faces no direct competition as no other carrier flies from a Paris airport to Béziers; however, Air France (AF) does fly from nearby Montpellier (MPL) to both Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) and Paris Orly (ORY).


Dès le 14 avril 2011, Ryanair (FR) inaugurera une ligne directe à raison de quatre vols par semaine entre Beauvais-Tillé (BVA), 120km au nord de Paris et Béziers-Cap d'Agde (BZR), sur la côte méditerranéenne dans la région Languedoc-Roussillon. Comme tous les autres routes Ryanair, celle-ci sera en Boeing 737-800 de 189 sièges.

Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun: FR3116 BVA17.35-19.05BZR / FR3117 BZR19.30-21.00BVA

La ligne est surtout destinée aux touristes parisiens qui voyagent dans le sud de la France pour leurs vacances, mais elle servira aussi aux familles visitant leurs proches et pourra aussi servir aux passagers affaires. La ligne sera sans concurrence direct, puisqu'aucune autre compagnie ne vole vers Béziers depuis un aéroport parisien; nonobstant, Air France (AF) vole sur Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) et Paris Prly (ORY) depuis l'aéroport de Montpellier (MPL), assez proche.

Airlinair: Paris Orly-La Rochelle

From 8 April 2011, Airlinair (A5), the French regional airline, will start eleven weekly flights between Paris' second airport Orly (ORY) and La Rochelle (LRH) on France's Atlantic coast, halfway between Bordeaux and Nantes. The airline will use a Chalair (CE) (a smaller French regional airline) 19-seater Beech 1900D aircraft on the route which will operate twice daily on weekdays and once on Sundays.

Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri: A5520 LRH06.20-07.35ORY / A5523 ORY16.15-17.30LRH

Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri: A5524 LRH18.05-19.20ORY / A5525 ORY19.45-21.00LRH

Sun: A5524 LRH17:40-18:55ORY / A5525 ORY19:15-20:30LRH

The route is essentially targeting business travellers on this short intercity route, and faces no direct competition; indirect competition is irrelevant due the route's length: at only 243mi/ 391km it is so short that routes to Paris from alternate nearby airports are not real competition; however, the TGV high speed trains link La Rochelle to Paris in just over three hours.

Dès le 8 avril 2011, Airlinair (A5), la compagnie régionale française, commencera onze vols par semaine entre Orly (ORY), le deuxième aéroport parisien et La Rochelle (LRH), sur la côte atlantique française, à mi-chemin entre Bordeaux et Nantes. La compagnie utilisera un appareil Beech 1900D de 19 sièges de Chalair (CE) pour effectuer la liaison qui aura lieu deux fois par jour ouvrable et une fois le dimanche.

Lu,ma,me,je,ve: A5520 LRH06.20-07.35ORY / A5523 ORY16.15-17.30LRH

Lu,ma,me,je,ve: A5524 LRH18.05-19.20ORY / A5525 ORY19.45-21.00LRH

Di: A5524 LRH17:40-18:55ORY / A5525 ORY19:15-20:30LRH


La ligne semble viser essentiellement une clientèle business sur cette liaison courte où il n'y a pas de concurrence directe ; la concurrence indirecte par les airs n'est pas conséquente dû à la distance courte de la ligne : à seulement 243mi/ 391km la ligne est si courte que les ligne aériennes vers Paris depuis les aéroport proches ne forment pas une réelle concurrence ; malgré cela les TGV relient La Rochelle à Paris en 3h03.

CityJet: Pau-Dublin

Yesterday, 2 April 2011, CityJet (WX), subsidiary of Air France (AF) launched a once weekly seasonal route between Dublin (DUB) and Pau (PUF), at the foot of the Pyrenees, using an Avro RJ-85 aircraft that is based at London City Airport (LCY).

Sat: AF5178 DUB 13.15-16.40 PUF / AF5179 PUF 17.25-18.50 DUB

This route is aimed at Irish holidaymakers travelling to the south of France, to visit Pau, the surrounding landscape and the Pyrenees Mountains. Although the route faces no direct competition, Ryanair (FR) operates from Dublin to Biarritz (BIQ), close to Pau but on the Atlantic coast.


Hier, le 2 avril 2011, CityJet (WX), filiale d'Air France (AF) a inauguré une ligne directe hebdomadaire entre Dublin (DUB) et Pau (PUF), une ville au pied des Pyrénées, avec un appareil RJ-85 basé à l'aéroport de Londres Ciy (LCY).

Sa: AF5178 DUB 13.15-16.40 PUF / AF5179 PUF 17.25-18.50 DUB

La ligne est orientée vers les vacanciers irlandais souhaitant visiter le sud de la France et plus particulièrement Pau, ses environs et les Pyrénées. Aucune compagnie concurrence cette ligne directement, mais Ryanair (FR) vole depuis Dublin (DUB) vers Biarritz (BIQ), une ville non loin de Pau mais sur la côte atlantique.

CityJet: Pau-Amsterdam

From 2 April 2011, CityJet (WX), a subsidiary of Air France (AF) will launch twice-weekly flights between Amsterdam (AMS) and Pau (PUF), in southern France, at the foot of the Pyrenees mountains. These flights will be operated by an Avro RJ-85 aircraft based at London City airport (LCY).

Sat: AF5246 AMS07:30-09:50PUF / AF5247 PUF15:40-18:00AMS
Sun: AF5248 AMS14:55-17:15PUF / AF5249 PUF17:55-20:15AMS

Rather than as a replacement for a discontinued Ryanair (FR) service, as CityJet's London City-Pau route is, this route seems to mirror an old Transavia (HV) service, operating between Rotterdam (RTM) and Pau, which was discontinued last year. Instead, Transavia now operates to nearby Biarritz (BIQ) from Rotterdam instead, leaving CityJet's new holiday route from Amsterdam uncontested.


Dès le 2 avril 2011, CityJet (WX), filiale d'Air France (AF) commencera deux vols hebdomadaires entre Amsterdam (AMS) et Pau (PUF), au pied des Pyrénées dans le sud de la France. Ces vols seront effectués par un appareil Avro RJ-85 basé Londres City (LCY).

Sa: AF5246 AMS07:30-09:50PUF / AF5247 PUF15:40-18:00AMS
Di: AF5248 AMS14:55-17:15PUF / AF5249 PUF17:55-20:15AMS

Plutôt qu'un remplacement d'une ligne arrêtée par Ryanair (FR), comme il semble être le cas pour la nouvelle ligne Londres City-Pau de CityJet, cette ligne rappelle une ligne opérée par Transavia (HV) entre Rotterdam (RTM) et Pau, qui a été arrêtée l'année dernière. Cette année, Transavia vole sur Biarritz (BIQ) depuis Rotterdam, laissant la nouvelle liaison vacances de CityJet sans concurrent.