Starting from 14 June 2005, AirFrance is adding one more daily flight onits Beijing - Paris's route. Air France cus-tomers will then have a choice of four-teen weekly flights between the two cit-ies.
Air France Beijing - Paris first dailyflight AFl29 leaves Beijing InternationalAirport at 9:50 and arrives at Paris-Charlesde Gaulle Airport at 14:35 the same day.Return daily flight Pads-- BeijingAF128leaves Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport at15:55, arriving in Beijing at 7:55 on thefollowing day. The first daily flight ser-vice is operated with Airbus A330 aircraft.
Air France Beijing-- Paris seconddaily flight AFl 25 leavesBeijing International Air-port at 13:15 and arrivesat Paris-Charles deGaulle Airport at 17:40the same day. Returndaily flight Paris --Beijing AFl26 leavesParis-Charles de GaulleAirport at 18:55, arrivingin Beijing at 10:30 on thefollowing day. The sec-ond daily flight service isoperated with BoeingB777 aircraft.
As well, Air France will operate 42flights weekly between China and Europe(fourteen weekly flights for Beijing,eleven weekly flights for Shanghai and tenweekly flights for Guangzhou, daily flightfor Hong Kong).
Air France is the first European car-der to serve Beijing in 1973 and Europe'sfirst airline to serve four destinations inChina: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou andHong Kong.
‘Air France's development in Chinacontinues\", underlined Mr. Frank Legre,Air France General Manager for china.\"The Chinese market is undoubtedly oneof the most important ones for Air France,this strong increase of our offer betweenBeijing and Pads proves that we are con-fident in the China expansion.\"