AIR FRANCE
CCM Airlines and Air France hace together a winning partnership testifying of their commun will to reinforce their links in order to have you travelling better again.
This partnership between the two companies offers several advantages for the passenger :
- access to the “Flying Blue” loyalty program : each time you are travelling on a CCM or Air France route, you win Mile's convertible in plane tickets, nights at the hotel or car rental. With the credit card Air France/American Expresse you win much more Mile's. And you get a lot of privilegiated conditions with all of our partners like Disneyland Paris, Pierr & Vacances, Visit France/Visit Europe...
- the power of a great network with the effectiveness of the hubs of Marseille-Provence and Lyon-Saint Exupéry allows our passengers to reach a great natwork of correspondances : 17 regional or european destination in th "Rendez-Vous Méditerranée" of Marseille-Provence airport and 43 national and international destinations throughout the hub of Lyons-Saint Exupéry airport.
- the complete interchangeability of tickets between the 4 Corsican airports.
CCM Airlines' partnership with Air France dates back to the creation of the regional company. It has been developed all over the years, with commercial agreements, general commercial agent contracts, wetleasing, airport representation, opening of franchise routes etc…
The latest agreements with AF date from October 2003 ; they have been in force since spring 2004 and demonstrate the shared will to reinforce existing links and to make best use of the complementarities of the two companies.
The principal feature of this new partenership are :
- all routes out of Corsica in code-sharing.
- all the Corsica-Continent flights (Nice, Marseilles, Lyons and seasonal routes) have the double code XK/AF in the distribution systems.
- the Paris routes as joint ventures : CCM's entire basic program for Paris, from Ajaccio, Bastia and Figari is now in Airbus aircraft. Air France complements the basic programme in high season. The “joint venture” contract means that the companies share the income, each company assuming its own expenses.
- Air France franchise routes : this commercial operating regime is reserved to routes outside the Corsican network, such as Marseilles-Rome and Nice-Toulouse. The flights are commercialised under code AF only.
- other commercial agreements : principally a contract for assistance in airports on all metropolitan platforms where Air France offers the service.