Air France to operate Malta-Toulouse service

Air France is planning to fly to 16 new destinations including Malta from a new base which it is to set up in from Toulouse, airline officials said today. Other destinations will include Berlin, Prague and Vienna. Services start in April. The new hub...

Air France is planning to fly to 16 new destinations including Malta from a new base which it is to set up in from Toulouse, airline officials said today.

Other destinations will include Berlin, Prague and Vienna. Services start in April.

The new hub in the southwestern city is part of the airline's efforts to fend off forays into tis home market by low cost airlines. 

Air France established a hub in the Mediterranean city of Marseille in October and is also planning to increase services in Nice. 

The new hubs are part of a program to restore medium-haul, point-to-point routes’ profitability by the end of 2013, he said. Those services include flights from Paris Orly as well as French airports outside the capital city.

The airline will assign 10 Airbus A320-series planes to Toulouse.

Other routes served from Toulouse will include Athens,  Brussels, Geneva, Hamburg  Malaga, Seville, Naple, Venice,  Istanbul, Tunis, Casablanca and Marrakesh.

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