Dozens of new flight routes to and from France will be launched in Spring 2025. The Local has the details and list of destinations.
Air France
Paris to Denver & Phoenix, USA (expanded) – Air France will extend flights to Denver and Phoenix, with three flights a week from Paris-Charles de Gaulle. Previously, the Denver service had only been available in the summer, and Phoenix was only added in the summer of 2024.
Paris to Orlando, USA – Four direct flights per week, with Orlando serving as Air France’s 18th US destination, starting May 21st.
Paris to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – a new direct route connecting Charles de Gaulle to Saudi Arabia beginning May 19th.
Biarritz to Figari (Corsica) – from July 5th to August 30th, every Saturday.
Air France has also unveiled direct flights between Los Angeles and Nice in May 2025 for the Cannes Film Festival and the Monaco Grand Prix; while four additional flights will connect New York to Nice in June 2025 for the Cannes Lions Festival.
United Airlines
Nice to Washington DC – The US airline will operate flights four times per week from May 24th through to September 25th.
Ryanair
Toulouse to Manchester – The airline will add a twice-weekly flight from March 30th. More on other flights from Toulouse to the UK in our separate article.
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A twice-weekly service from Toulouse to Budapest is also scheduled to start this summer, though no start-date has been announced.
The budget airline will also makes its long-awaited debut at Paris Orly, where it will operate daily flights to Bratislava, Slovakia, and Milan Bergamo, Italy.
Lufthansa
Figari, Corsica to Frankfurt – Saturday flights start on May 17th.
Norwegian
Toulouse to Oslo – from June 14th, running twice a week.
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British Airways
Bergerac Dordogne Périgord airport to London Stansted – A new Saturday flight will begin on June 28th. Tickets are already available for purchase on the British Airways website, as well as via the Bergerac airport site. The Bergerac airport is located a little over 125km from Bordeaux.
Volotea
They will offer flights from Paris-Orly to the Italian city of Verona from March 26th; to Genoa, Olbia and Turin from May 26th; and to Ancona from May 27th. These will replace existing flights from Charles de Gaulle.
Volotea has also announced a service between Rodez and Corsica from the second weekend in April; and from Lyon Saint-Exupéry to Salerno, Italy, on July 4th.
It is also planning new routes to Strasbourg and Barcelona from Caen-Carpiquet, though no dates have been scheduled.
Swiss
Montpellier to Zurich – Flights on Mondays and Fridays will run from March 30th.
Lot
Paris-Orly to Warsaw – The inaugural flight of this daily service will be on March 31st.
KLM
Biarritz to Amsterdam – April 19th to October 25th, two flights per week from April to June, September and October, and daily services in July and August.
ASL
ASL Airlines France is expanding its network with two new summer routes to Pristina, Kosovo, from Paris-CDG and Lyon. Starting July 3rd, 2025, these direct flights will operate weekly.
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New flights from Clermont-Ferrand to Algiers will operate weekly from July 1st to September 2nd
Toulon to Algiers – A more frequent service, this route will operate on Fridays and Sundays during three distinct periods: April 4th to April 20th, July 4th to September 7th, and October 17th to October 24th.
Paris Orly to Algiers – a new daily service on this route starts on March 30th.
Lille to Algier – Frequency will increase from three to four weekly flights between July 4th and September 1st.
Lyon to Algiers – From March 30th, weekly flights will rise from five to six.
Lille to Toulon – twice weekly services (Fridays and Sunday) between April 4th and April 20th; July 4th to September 7th, and October 17th to October 24th.
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Transavia general
Paris-Orly to Amsterdam, Netherlands – Starting as early as April 2025, new schedule to be confirmed.
Paris-Orly to Belgrade, Serbia – The budget airline will run two flights a week to Serbia, with one-way prices stating at €65. Services begin on April 10.
Nantes to Essaouira, Morocco – One flight a week (on Fridays), with one-way prices starting at €48. Services begin on July 11th.
Lyon to Paphos, Cyprus – One flight a week, running on Saturdays, with one-way prices starting at €39. Services begin on July 12th.
Lyon to Bastia, Corsica – One flight a week, running on Saturdays, with one-way prices starting at €34. Services begin on April 19th.
Marseille to Cairo, Egypt – One flight a week, running on Saturdays, starting at €75 for a one-way ticket. Services begin on April 4th.
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Transavia new summer flights
Paris-Orly to Chisinau, Moldova – Two flights per week, Mondays and Fridays, one-way tickets starting at €65. Services begin on July 7th.
Paris-Orly to Sofia, Bulgaria – Two flights per week, Thursdays and Sundays, with one-way tickets starting at €45. Services begin on April 10th.
Bordeaux to Faro, Portugal – Two flights per week, Mondays and Fridays, with one-way tickets starting at €30. Services begin on July 7th.
Strasbourg to Istanbul, Turkey – One flight per week on Mondays, starting at €54 for a one-way ticket. Services begin on April 8th.
Montpellier to Brussels, Belgium – Two flights per week on Thursdays and Sundays, starting at €36 for one-way tickets. Services begin on April 10th.
Marseille to Athens – Two flights per week, on Thursdays and Sundays, starting at €60 for one-way tickets. Services begin April 3rd.
Lyon to Ajaccio, Corsica – One flight per week on Saturdays, with one-way tickets starting at €34. Services begin on April 19th.
Bastia, Corsica to Biarritz – One flight per week on Saturdays, starting at €34 one-way. Services begin on July 12th.
EasyJet
Strasbourg to Palma, Spain – Two flights per week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, one-way tickets starting around €35. Services begin on June 4th.
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Rennes to Manchester, UK – Two flights a week, Wednesdays and Sundays. Services begin on June 25th.
Paris-Orly to Skopje (North Macedonia) and Sofia (Bulgaria) – from April 2nd and June 23rd respectively.
Paris-Orly to Southampton (England) – twice-weekly flights for the summer season are expected to begin on March 31st, and the flights will run on Mondays and Fridays.
Nantes to Menorca (Spain) – Three flights (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday) per week from April 1st.
Nantes to Rhodes (Greece) – Two flights per week (Wednesday and Saturday) from June 25th.
Lyon to Bari (Italy) – Three flights a week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) starting on May 23rd.
Lyon to Brindisi (Italy) – Two flights per week (Thursday and Sunday) starting on June 5th.
Lyon to Essaouira (Morocco) – Two flights per week (Wednesday and Saturday) starting on June 4th.
Lyon to Zadar (Croatia) – Two flights per week (Monday and Friday) starting on June 23rd.
Lyon to Reykjavik (Iceland) – Two flights per week (Tuesday and Sunday) starting on June 24th.
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Easyjet is also running five new routes from Bordeaux-Merignac; Birmingham, Corfu, Faro, Dubrovnik and Budapest – full details here. It will also take over the Bordeaux-Edinburgh route, previously operated by Ryanair, offering a twice weekly connection, in the summer only.
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Brest to London-Gatwick – The new service will fly from June 25th. There will be two direct flights per week, on Wednesdays and Sundays.
Biarritz to Milan Malpensa – The new summer twice-weekly service from June 23rd to August 29th, 2 flights per week.
Flights from Bordeaux to Dubrovnik and Lyon to Zadar will also start this June.
French Bee
Paris-Orly to Montreal, Canada – The new route by the newcomer low-cost carrier will run four times a week, and during the summer high-season it will run five times a week. It will start on April 30th.
The carrier already operates routes to major San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Miami.
Vueling
Paris-Orly to Salerno, Italy – From June 20th to October 24th, three times a week.
Odyssey airlines
Nîmes to Ajaccio, Corsica – One flight per week, every Saturday, from May 31st to September 28th.
Nîmes to Barcelona, Spain – Two flights per week, running on Thursdays and Sundays from May 29th to September 28th.
Nîmes to Bastia, Corsica – One flight per week, every Wednesday from June 5th to September 26th.
Nîmes to Milan, Italy – Two flights per week, running Mondays and Fridays, with a 30-minute stopover in Nice from May 30th to September 29th.
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Nîmes to Verona, Italy – Two flights per week, running on Mondays and Fridays from May 30th to September 29th.
Nîmes to Nice, France – Two flights per week, running on Mondays and Fridays from May 30th to September 29th.
Tours to Ajaccio, Corsica – One flight per week, every Saturday from June 1st to September 28th.
Tours to Bastia, Corsica – One flight per week, every Wednesday from June 5th to September 25th.
Nice Bergame to Milan – Two flights per week, on Mondays and Fridays from May 30th to September 29th.
Malaysian Airlines
Paris CDG to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – The Malaysian carrier will initially launch four weekly flights from March 23rd, and then it will switch to daily flights from March 30th.
What about flights to be scrapped?
In some potentially disappointing news for travellers wanting to head to the US this summer, Air France has announced plans to reduce flights between Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) and Atlanta from 21 per week to 18 from March 31st, and again to 17 per week between July 1st and 31st.
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It also plans to reduce services between Paris and Boston to 14 per week between June 2nd and August 30th.
The move appears to be part of a strategic partnership between Air France and US airline Delta, which operates numerous flights from its main hub in Atlanta to Paris.
There is no news, yet, on any changes to Delta services into and out of Charles de Gaulle.
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