Air France maintains daily SFO-Paris flights through the winter.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 1996--Air France said it will continue daily nonstop service between here and Paris throughout the winter for the first time. Last winter the airline operated six flights a week. Air France Air France in full Compagnie Internationale Air France French passenger and cargo airline with more than 200 destinations in some 80 countries. It introduced supersonic Concorde service in 1976, but financial loss led the company to cease its Concorde has offered daily SFO-Paris flights during the summer since 1994. With the change to winter schedules on Oct. 27, Flight 081 departs SFO SFO (in Britain) Serious Fraud Office daily at 3:30 p.m., arriving Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport at 11:15 a.m. the following day. Return flight 080 departs Paris-CDG daily at 10:50 a.m., arriving SFO at 1:20 p.m. the same day. Air France flies only four-engined aircraft on the San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden route: the Airbus A340 and Boeing 747. Both are configured for three classes of service: L'Espace 180 first class, L'Espace 127 business class and Tempo economy class. Air France San Francisco-Paris flights also offer passengers in all classes an Air France exclusive appreciated by smokers and non-smokers alike: the smoker's bar. Passengers are permitted to smoke in the bar area, but not at their seats or anywhere else in the cabin. The smoker's bars - one for economy class and one for business and first class passengers - are enclosed by drapes drape v. draped, drap·ing, drapes v.tr. 1. To cover, dress, or hang with or as if with cloth in loose folds: draped the coffin with a flag; a robe that draped her figure. and ventilated ven·ti·late tr.v. ven·ti·lat·ed, ven·ti·lat·ing, ven·ti·lates 1. To admit fresh air into (a mine, for example) to replace stale or noxious air. 2. by special smoke-extracting fans. Available throughout the flight except during meal service, the smoker's bars offer a congenial con·gen·ial adj. 1. Having the same tastes, habits, or temperament; sympathetic. 2. Of a pleasant disposition; friendly and sociable: a congenial host. 3. spot for passengers who smoke to get up, stretch out and enjoy a beverage as well. For information and reservations, contact a travel specialist or Air France, 1-800-237-2747. CONTACT: Air France Bruce Haxthausen, 212/830-4482 |
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