Air France announces it will no longer serve Strasbourg
The airline has blamed the change on economic reasons and changing passenger habits
Air France will no longer serve nor stop over in Strasbourg
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Flagship French airline Air France has announced that it will no longer serve Strasbourg-Entzheim airport from March next year.
The airline will stop serving the Grand Est airport from March 30, 2025, mainly due to economic reasons, it confirmed on October 16.
From March 30, the airline’s usual Strasbourg-Lyon route will no longer operate, it said, due to “the deterioration in the economic performance of this route”.
It said that the route’s dropping popularity is largely due to “the general reduction in point-to-point traffic in France” as a result of:
A drop in business travel
The switch from air travel to trains
The development of videoconferencing.
It also said it had seen a fall in connecting travel from Strasbourg via Lyon to other destinations in France and Europe.
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The closure of this route will mean that Air France planes will no longer use Strasbourg as a connecting airport either.
“All the staff concerned will be offered another operational flight management role, without any change in their place of work or forced departure,” the airline stated. It also said that “internal mobility arrangements” and the option to change location will also be possible if staff wish.
Despite Air France’s reports of dropping traffic, Strasbourg airport actually saw more visitors in 2023 in comparison to 2022. It handled more than one million passengers in 2023, up 9% compared to 2022.
