Air France launches new service to Wuhan, China

“This 5th destination in China Mainland strengthens the Air France position in this fast growing market. From Europe, Air France-KLM Group has the largest destination portfolio on Greater China (China, Hongkong and Taiwan).

Air France-KLM’s growth in China has become one of our Group’s strategic assets. It makes our global network and our service offer even more attractive and clearly contributes to strengthening Franco-Chinese relations”, said Bruno Matheu, executive vice president Marketing, Revenue Management and Network for Air France-KLM.

This was announced on November 5th at Wuhan, during the signing ceremony of a cooperation agreement between Air France and the Municipality of Wuhan.

Situated at the crossroads of central China and at equal distance from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, Wuhan is a transportation hub for air, railway as well as ferry traffic. Capital of the Hubei, with a population of 9 million inhabitants, Wuhan is an energetic city, a commercial centre of finance, industry (especially automotive), trade and science, with many international companies located here. Having scientific, technological and educational institutions such as Laser City and the Wuhan University, the city is also an intellectual centre.

The new service will be operated three times a week. Flight AF132 will depart from Paris-Charles de Gaulle on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, returning from Wuhan the following day.

The return flight, AF139, will depart from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, arriving in Paris-Charles de Gaulle on the same day.

Flights will be operated with Boeing 777-200ER equipment, which can seat up to 309 passengers: 35 in Business, 24 in Premium Voyageur and 250 in the Voyageur/Economy cabin.