(Posted 21st June 2024)
Air France has announced the launch of a new routing to East Africa, come November this year.
Effective 18th of November will the airline inaugurate a new route from Paris-Charles de Gaulle to Kilimanjaro International Airport (Arusha / Tanzania) as an extension of their service to Zanzibar. This route will be operated 3 times a week – on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays – using a state of the art Airbus A350-900 aircraft configured with 34 seats in Business, 24 in Premium Economy and 266 in Economy.
This Paris – Zanzibar – Kilimanjaro route will replace the Paris – Zanzibar – Dar Es Salam route operated by Air France until now.
As Air France pulls out of Dar Es Salam will DAR remain accessible via Amsterdam with KLM. In addition to Dar Es Salam, KLM’s other destinations in Tanzania include Kilimanjaro (4 flights a week) and Zanzibar (2 flights a week).
Dar Es Salam will remain accessible via Amsterdam, with KLM operating flights to the Tanzanian capital 7 times a week (as an extension of Kilimanjaro 5 times a week, as an extension of Zanzibar 2 times a week). By coordinating the two airlines’ flight schedules, Air France and KLM will offer customers a wider choice of operating days and times.
Air France flight times (in local time)
- AF874: departs Paris-Charles de Gaulle at 10:10am on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, arriving in Zanzibar at 9:10pm. Departure from Zanzibar at 10:55pm, arrival in Kilimanjaro at 11:55pm (same day).
- AF874 (same flight number): departs Kilimanjaro at 1:25am on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, arriving at Paris-Charles de Gaulle at 8:50am (same day).
