Air France has just revealed plans to launch a new route to the United States, and it seems like a logical enough addition.
Air France adds Paris to Las Vegas route
As of April 15, 2026, Air France will launch a new flight between Paris (CDG) and Las Vegas (LAS). The service will operate 3x weekly with the following schedule:
AF56 Paris to Las Vegas departing 1:40PM arriving 3:35PM
AF57 Las Vegas to Paris departing 5:50PM arriving 1:05PM (+1 day)
The 5,442-mile flight is blocked at 10hr55min westbound and 10hr15min eastbound. The flight will operate on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays, in both directions.
Air France will use an Airbus A350-900 for the service, featuring 324 seats. This includes 34 business class seats, 24 premium economy seats, and 266 economy class seats (this will be Air France’s old A350 configuration, and not the new A350 configuration).
How Las Vegas route fits in Air France’s network
Las Vegas will be Air France’s 19th destination in the United States, and 26th destination in North America. Las Vegas is of course a popular year-round destination, both for leisure and for conferences. That being said, it doesn’t seem to be quite as “hot” as it used to be, at least from a US-centric perspective, with declining tourism numbers.
When it comes to transatlantic service, Las Vegas currently has:
- Year-round flights on British Airways to London (LHR), and seasonal flights to London Gatwick (LGW)
- Seasonal flights on Condor to Frankfurt (FRA)
- Year-round flights on Discover Airlines to Frankfurt (FRA)
- Seasonal flights on Edelweiss to Zurich (ZRH)
- Year-round flights on KLM to Amsterdam (AMS)
- Year-round flights on Virgin Atlantic to London (LHR), and seasonal flights to Manchester (MAN)
So it’s actually a pretty well served market, though as you can see, it’s on a mix of full service and leisure airlines. Air France-KLM already has the Amsterdam route, but I guess the airline is finding enough success there to also want to add Paris service.
Las Vegas has decent year-round transatlantic demand, in the sense that you have a local community that’s looking to travel to Europe in summer, and Europeans looking to travel to Las Vegas in winter (perhaps as part of a bigger West Coast trip).
In the past couple of years, we’ve otherwise seen the airline expand in the United States by adding flights to Orlando (MCO), Phoenix (PHX), and Raleigh-Durham (RDU). With that in mind, this seems like one of the logical next markets for Air France to serve, so I’m not surprised to see this addition.
Bottom line
As of April 2026, Air France will launch a new 3x weekly flight between Paris and Las Vegas using an Airbus A350. This will be Air France’s 19th destination in the United States, and it’s also an airport already served by sister company KLM. Given Air France’s impressive expansion in the United States over the years, I see no reason this route shouldn’t succeed.
What do you make of Air France adding service to Las Vegas?
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