Air France (AF, Paris CDG) has announced it will begin scheduled commercial B787-9 operations on January 9, 2017 with Paris CDG-Cairo International, Egypt the type's maiden route.
Prior to its entry into regular service, Air France says it will four special welcome flights on January 7 and 8 from Paris to Paris, lasting 2 hours 30 minutes. Tickets for the flights will go on sale in early December.
Air France-KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has nineteen B787-9s and six B787-10s on order from Boeing (BOE, Washington National) with an additional twelve B787s to be leased from AerCap. According to the ch-aviation fleets database, KLM currently operates seven B787-9s of which six are leased from AerCap.
Air France's first B787-9 (msn 38769) will feature 225 seats in Economy, 21 in Premium Economy and 30 in Business Class.
