DUBLIN welcomes TRANSAVIA to ORLY
New year-round daily service to Paris-Orly from June 2015
A new year-round daily service between Dublin and Paris-Orly will begin in June 2015, transavia.com has announced.
It will be the first time in the Irish market for the French low-cost carrier, which has its main base at Orly and is owned by the Air France-KLM group.
Dublin Airport Managing Director Vincent Harrison said he was delighted to welcome Transavia to Ireland.
“Transavia is a strong brand in the French market and we look forward to working closely with them to support this new service from Paris-Orly Airport to Dublin. Paris is a very popular destination for both business and leisure traffic from Ireland and France is also a major market for inbound tourism to Ireland.”
He said the Transavia service was one of 14 new services from Dublin Airport that have already been announced for next year.
“Dublin Airport is looking forward to a strong year in 2015, with new airlines such as transavia.com entering the market, and existing airline customers adding new routes and capacity.”
Hervé Kozar, Chief Commercial Officer of transavia.com said the airline was very excited about the new route.
“We are looking forward to welcoming Irish customers on our planes to Paris and we will make all efforts possible to offer them an excellent service with the lowest possible fare. I have no doubt this destination will be a great success and we hope it will contribute to increased tourism and business exchanges between Ireland and France”.
The new daily Paris Orly-Dublin service, which will be operated by a Boeing 737-800, will begin operations on June 1.
Flights will depart Paris Orly at 18:20 arriving in Dublin at 19:10 except on Saturdays, when flights will depart Paris Orly at 6:30 arriving in Dublin at 7:20. The return flight will depart Dublin at 19:55 arriving in Paris Orly at 22:45, except on Saturdays, when flights will depart Dublin at 8:55 arriving in Paris at 10:55.
transavia.com began operating in France in 2007 and has a fleet of 15 aircraft which will operate 64 routes next summer from French airports to destinations in Europe and the Mediterranean.