Air France will operate flights to various special galleon during RIO2016 Olympics to carry the French delegation that will attend the event. Several special aircraft will operate in Brazil for a few days and you can closely monitor the RIOGaleão Airport.
The day after the closing ceremony, which will take place on August 21, Air France will allocate two Boeing 777-300ER (each with 381 seats) to fly with all the French delegation and its sports equipment from Rio de Janeiro to Paris at Charles de Gaulle airport.
In addition, to meet the high demand, the regular flight with the Airbus A330 will be operated exceptionally by an Airbus A380 (with 516 seats), an increase of 308 seating capacity for 22 August.For the first time, Air France will operate the superjumbo Airbus between these two cities.
Air France will also operate one second flight on 22 with the 777-300ER, for passenger transport, which as noted above, provides 381 seats. Throughout the day the Air France will operate with 1659 seats on the route Rio de Janeiro (RIOGaleão) - Paris (Charles de Gaulle), and 762 will be dedicated on two flights to the French delegation.
This European summer season, Air France will operate 12 weekly flights to Rio de Janeiro from Paris-Charles de Gaulle, totaling almost 2 daily flights to Europe. Currently Air France operates 27 frequencies to Brazil, and São Paulo city more answered by the company.
