Air France will fly twice weekly between Paris/Charles de Gaulle Airport and the city of Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, from 20 June. It is the resumption of a route that has been active for the last decade, since 2014.
The flights will be operated twice a week, with a stopover, both outward and return, at the Oliver R. Tambo International Airport, in the city of Johannesburg, in the Republic of South Africa. During the stopover, for disembarkation and embarkation only, passengers to or from Maputo will remain inside the aircraft, which will be a Boeing 777-300ER.
Departures from Paris CDG will take place on Sundays and Thursdays, at 23h25 (flight AF990), arriving in the Mozambican capital the next day at 13h10 local time, after a stopover in Johannesburg.
On return flights to Europe on Mondays and Fridays, the aircraft will depart Maputo at 3.45pm and land in the French capital at 5.45am local time the next day, after another stopover in Johannesburg.
Air France will be the second company from a European Union country to operate scheduled flights to Mozambique, after TAP Air Portugal, which has always had scheduled flights from Lisbon to Maputo.
Currently two other global airlines, Qatar Airlines and Turkish Airlines, fly regularly to Maputo from Doha and Istanbul respectively, providing hundreds of connections from their national hubs. Last January, the Mozambican authorities announced that Emirates would start scheduled flights to Maputo next July (LINK related news). However, so far, there has been no announcement, to that effect, from the Emirates airline.
The flights are already on sale, on the French airline’s website and on the global distribution systems available to travel agencies. In Economy Class round-trip fares are costing less than one thousand euros.
