Air France increases services to India

NEW DELHI: Air France on Monday said it will add three new weekly flights from Chennai to Paris to its existing network in India and will also increase the capacity on other Europe-bound flights.

The flights, which were earlier being operated by Delta Airlines on a code-share basis, would now be operated directly by Air France using its own aircraft, an Air France statement said.

The carrier would operate through Airbus A340 with a seating capacity of 291 passengers, it said.

In addition to launching the new flights, Air France would increase capacity on other flights between Europe and India.

Airliner would now operate seven weekly flights from Paris to Bangalore instead of five. The Paris-Mumbai flight would be operated using Boeing 777-300's with a seating capacity of 310 instead of the previous Boeing 777-200s with 270 seats.