Air France Introduces Direct Flights from Hollywood to the French Riviera

Celebrating the Cannes Film Festival and Monaco F1 Grand Prix with a New Nonstop Route

 

As a long-standing partner of the Cannes Film Festival, Air France will once again operate special flights this year between Los Angeles (USA) and Nice (France) in May 2025. This is an ideal opportunity for customers on the American West Coast to enjoy the French Riviera and its renowned international film festival at this time of year, as well as the F1 Grand Prix in Monaco.

 

Flight schedule (in local time)

• May 12, 2025: flight AF041 – departs Los Angeles at 13:15, arrives in Nice at 9:40 the following day
• May 26, 2025: flight AF040 – departs Nice at 13:55, arrives in Los Angeles at 16:55 the same day

 

This spring, head for the French Riviera with Air France

Flights between Los Angeles and Nice will be operated by Airbus A350 equipped with the airline’s latest travel cabins. In Business, a sliding door allows passengers to create a fully enclosed space, ensuring privacy from the other passengers in the cabin. Each seat converts into a full-flat bed almost 2 meters long, ensuring optimal comfort. In Premium, the latest recliner-type seat has a wide 48-cm seat pan and reclines up to 121°. In Economy, the seat is fitted with ergonomic seat foam, has a 119° recline and 79cm of legroom. Each cabin offers an in-flight Wi-Fi connection and wide High-Definition individual touch screens, providing movie lovers with the perfect opportunity to enjoy films on board.

 

The Airbus A350 is the jewel in Air France’s long-haul fleet. With CO2 emissions reduced by 25% compared to previous-generation aircraft, it is a powerful way of reducing the airline’s environmental footprint. Its noise footprint is also reduced by 40%. 

 

Air France will also operate four special flights between New York-JFK and Nice for the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, taking place between June 16 to 20, 2025. These flights will be operated by Boeing 777-300ER.

 

Flight schedule (in local time)

• June 14 and 15, 2025: flight AF043 – departs New York JFK at 16:35, arrives in Nice at 6:30 the following day
• June 19 and 20, 2025: flight AF042 – departs Nice at 11:55, arrives in New York JFK at 14:40 the same day

 

A reinforced summer schedule to the United States

During the 2025 summer season, Air France is increasing flights to the United States, adding Orlando (Florida) as a direct service from Paris-Charles de Gaulle. Air France will then offer 18 destinations in the United States and 25 in North America: Atlanta, Boston, Cancún, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, Montreal, Minneapolis, New York-JFK, New York-Newark, Ottawa, Orlando, Phoenix, Québec City, Raleigh-Durham, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver and Washington-DC.

 

Air France loves cinema

For the 45th year running, Air France is a partner of the Cannes Film Festival, whose 78th edition is taking place from May 13-24, 2025. The company is thus celebrating the world’s largest film festival and showcasing its love of cinema. Since screening its first film – An American in Paris – on board a Constellation flying from New York to Paris in 1951, cinema has been part of Air France’s DNA and is now a key part of the travel experience. In all its long-haul cabins, Air France promotes cinema all year round on its latest-generation HD individual screens. The company offers 1,500 hours of in-flight entertainment including a wide selection of French films and movies that have won awards at previous editions of the Cannes Film Festival. Its carefully selected offer is adapted to the tastes and cultures of all its customers and this vast selection of films is enhanced by feature films broadcast in their original version.

 

About Air France

 

Since 1933, Air France has been promoting and highlighting France throughout the world. With an activity divided between passenger transport, cargo transport and aeronautical maintenance, Air France is a major air transport player. More than 38,000 staff that make up its workforce are committed on a daily basis to offering each customer a unique travel experience.    

 

Air France, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Transavia make up the Air France-KLM Group. The Group relies on its powerful hubs at Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam-Schiphol to offer a vast international network. Its Flying Blue frequent flyer program has over 17 million members. Air France and KLM are members of the SkyTeam alliance which has a total of 18 member airlines.   

 

Air France has set itself ambitious sustainable development targets and is working to reduce and support projects that absorb and store carbon from the atmosphere in natural carbon sinks.  As part of the Air France ACT program, the company is committed to reducing its CO2 emissions per passenger-km by 30% vs 2019, meaning -12% absolute CO2 emissions. This ambition is supported by major investments to renew its fleet with a new-generation more fuel-efficient aircraft, the development of use of more Sustainable Aviation Fuel, and the generalization of eco-piloting.