Air France has resumed flights to Nairobi and will join an expanded joint-venture partnership between KLM and Kenya Airways that was established in 1995.

Flight crew of the inaugural Air France flight

The inaugural flight using a Boeing 787-900 landed on March 26, which was eighteen years to the day when Air France had ended its Nairobi flights. The new flights will be three times a week using a Boing 787 and AF814 will leave Paris-Charles de Gaulle at 20:50 on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, arriving in Nairobi at 6:00, the next day and AF815 will leave Nairobi at 08:20 on Mondays, Thursdays, and Sundays and arrive at Paris-Charles de Gaulle at 15:50.

The expanded code-share will see the airlines have a combined three hubs (Amsterdam, Paris, Nairobi) enabling passengers to have seamless connections through booking on any of the three Air France flights (Paris-Nairobi), 14 Kenya Airways flights (7 Amsterdam-Nairobi and 7 Paris-Nairobi) and 7 KLM flights (Amsterdam-Nairobi)

From this summer, the Air France-KLM group comprising Air France, KLM, Transavia, and Joon will serve 51 African destinations on 489 weekly flights as in April 2018, Joon will begin serving Cape Town (South Africa) from Paris-Charles de Gaulle.