Nice Côte d'Azur airport announced Monday, May 3, the resumption this summer, subject to sanitary conditions, of long-haul flights to New York and Dubai, interrupted with the first confinement. "
The resumption of air traffic begins this summer with a flight program which is expanded with eleven new routes including two new destinations,
Menorca
and Southampton, and, subject to the opening of borders, the return of the first long-haul
flights to New York and to Dubai,
”the second largest airport platform in France announced in a press release.
Internationally, Nice Côte d'Azur, which before the health crisis served up to 120 destinations including China, will find a panel of twelve destinations in seven countries: Algiers, Tunis, Israel and Turkey but also Dubai with the company Emirates, New York JFK with Delta Airlines and the other New York airport of Newark with La Compagnie.
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A thousand flights per week this summer
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These latter destinations, however, remain subject to changes in traffic restrictions to and from these countries
", underlines the airport, which serves a tourist area stretching from Monaco to Saint-Tropez, via Cannes where the 74th International Film Festival is scheduled to be held July 6-17 this year. Vaccinated tourists from the United States could visit EU countries by this summer, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen recently said, but the reciprocity of this measure is still far from being confirmed. .
In Nice, this summer's flight program will be less extensive than usual (1,000 per week, compared to 1,400 in summer 2019) but includes new lines, Brest and Nantes with Transavia, Lille with Volotea, La Rochelle with Easyjet, and to Europe new lines (Chisinau in Moldova, London Heathrow, Prague) and the two new destinations, Menorca in the Balearics and Southampton.
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