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‘RENDEZ-VOUS FRANCE’ International Fair, a good occasion for BORDEAUX AIRPORT to launch its summer 2011 routes programme.

In Bordeaux today, “Rendez-Vous France” is to be inaugurated, the international trade fair for tour operators destined for France, the world’s leading tourist destination with almost 70 million visitors.

A thousand tour operators from all over the world are in Bordeaux for this three-day event.
More than 19,000 meetings are scheduled between tour operators from around the world and
French tourism professionals, with the aim of showing all the tourism offerings available in
France. Among these offerings obviously Bordeaux, the host city, and more broadly South
West France will be the star attractions of this international event.

For the occasion, BORDEAUX AIRPORT is publishing its routes programme for summer
2011.

New airline companies are joining the network of routes from and to the capital of South
West France.

- TAP Air Portugal is opening a daily flight to Lisbon to serve its hub, in particular for flights
to Brazil. This flight will be competing with an Air France daily flight.

- VUELING is launching Bordeaux/Barcelona with 3 flights per week. This will also be in
competition with a daily flight already operated by Air France.

- The Iberian Peninsula will be experiencing a major expansion of its travel offering this year. EasyJet will be competing with Iberia’s triple rotation by opening its own flight to Madrid, 4
times a week. Ryanair will be serving Seville for the first time with a twice-weekly schedule.
Ryanair will also slightly increase its capacity to Porto.

- CSA, the Czech national airline, is also setting up in Bordeaux and on 29 May will be
opening a direct link to its Prague hub.

- Few weeks ago AIR AUSTRAL opened a twice-weekly flight in B777-200 to Saint Denis in
Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.

It is also worth noting that capacities have been increased on many international routes:
- Bordeaux/Amsterdam, operated by KLM, with one extra flight,
- Bordeaux/Basel – easyJet has added one more weekly flight,
- Birmingham – Flybe is extending its summer period of operation,
- Charleroi, where Ryanair has added one more weekly flight,
- Geneva – easyJet has added one more weekly flight,- London Gatwick – easyJet has slightly increased its schedule with one more flight in peak
times,
- London Luton – easyJet now operates one flight every day except Mondays, where the
number of flights has doubled,
- Milan – easyJet has made a slight increase to the number of seats available over the season,
- Rome – Air France is offering 40% more capacity on its daily flight,
- Casablanca, where two operators, RAM and Jet4you, are continuing their complementary
offering put in place last winter,
Seat offer has also been increased on domestic network:
- Ajaccio and Bastia, in Corsica and both operated by the Air France subsidiary Regional, will
have the capacity of their planes increased,
- Lille will be getting one more daily flight, bringing the number up to four a day,
- Lyon, where easyJet will be tripling its Friday flights, two daily flights the other days
- Nantes, with Regional upgrading its three flights from ER135 to ER145,
- Dijon, launched last September and operated twice a day by Eastern Airlines, will continue
to run year round after some very good results.

Slight growth has also been registered for the chartered flight sector. New routes have opened
to Greece (Corfu, Rhodes), Turkey (Antalya, Bodrum), Russia, Austria, Cyprus and Tenerife.