CRJ1000 makes case for low-fare regionals
The low-fare character of regional air transport in much of Britain is spreading south as Air France regional subsidiaries prepare to react to the expected
The low-fare character of regional air transport in much of Britain is spreading south as Air France regional subsidiaries prepare to react to the expected incursion of cut-rate airlines onto the domestic market and launch customers gear up for the arrival of newly ordered, 100-seat Bombardier CRJ1000s.
Both Brit Air and fellow wholly owned Air France unit Régional aim to make so-called transversal services–the routes between major cities outside Paris– more competitive after a bad patch in 2005. While the overall market for flights from Marseilles airport grew 2.7 percent last year, transversal flights from the southern French city leapt by almost 9 percent. The same phenomenon surfaced in services from Toulouse, Lyon and Bordeaux.
