A strong domestic network

With 800 daily flights, Air France has a very strong and dense domestic network covering a majority of French destinations. The airline operates 123 routes, including 85 inter-regional routes, allowing passengers to bypass Paris.

The other 42 routes, known as radial routes, serve the major French cities out of Paris-CDG (corresponding traffic, i.e., customers travelling from the French regions to an international destination) or Paris-Orly (for point-to-point traffic, i.e. passengers travelling between the French regions and Paris).

Paris-Orly Airport, a key component in the domestic network

Paris-Orly Airport, located south of Paris, is essentially used to operate point-to-point flights, i.e. with no connections.

Paris-Orly is also the operating base of the La Navette product available on the four most popular routes of the French domestic network (Paris-Nice, Marseille, Toulouse and Bordeaux), and which is both an asset and a highly-appreciated service by customers.
The La Navette product, based on smooth traffic flows, simplicity and speed, was launched on 28 October 1996, with flights operated every hour or half-hour (between 14 and 27 daily flights).  To save time for customers in the airports concerned, sales counters, check-in areas and check-in in lounges are specially reserved for La Navette flights.The minimum turnaround time of aircraft flying La Navette shuttle routes is 40 minutes, guaranteeing flight safety. At Paris-Orly, the minimum turnaround time is 45 minutes for other short and medium-haul flights, and 50 minutes at Paris-CDG.

2008 summer schedule

Facing tougher competition on the medium-haul network, Air France is increasing capacity on routes out of the Lyon hub and will continue to improve the quality of its services.

On the domestic network, capacity will remain globally stable and will be adapted to competition from the TGV high-speed train routes. The Orly-Rennes route, which is extremely unprofitable, will be discontinued and flights to Rennes will be concentrated at Paris-CDG, with increased capacity on one of the three daily flights. Moreover, only one frequency will be maintained between Lyon and Orly, allowing  passengers to connect to flights serving the French Caribbean. A 7^th  daily frequency will be added between Paris-CDG and Lyon. Orly-Avignon flights will be discontinued from August. 

The Paris-CDG-Biarritz route has been suspended in favour of increased frequencies out of Orly (2 additional frequencies making 7 daily flights). This summer, an additional 2 frequencies will be added to the Orly-Toulouse route (29 daily flights).

A 5^th frequency will serve Nantes, a 4^th will be added to Pau and a 7^th  to Lyon.

A new Bordeaux-Montpellier route will be introduced on the inter-European network, with four weekly services.