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OpenSkies is a transatlantic airline owned by British Airways (BA), and is headquartered in Rungis, Paris. The airline launched as a brand of BA European Limited in June 2008 but in April 2009 the name was transferred to Elysair (which had operated as L'Avion). The airline is a full-service carrier and offers three class service cabins on board its aircraft. It has a fleet of three Boeing 757-200, of which one is owned by IAG outright with the other two leased. The airline currently operates between Paris-Orly Airport in France and both Newark Liberty International Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport in the United States. Potential future routes for the airline include Dublin, Frankfurt, Madrid, Brussels, Rome, and Milan. The Amsterdam-JFK route was dropped in August 2009 due to weak customer demand. In December 2009, the airline announced a change of its New York operations: in January 2010, all OpenSkies flights were shifted from JFK to Newark. The airline restored service from JFK to Orly on 31 March 2013. == History == British Airways wanted to reduce the over-dependence on their Heathrow Airport hub by flying between the United States and cities in continental Europe. The bypass was only able to be done after the open skies treaty between the United States and the European Union would allow any airline to fly between airports in the two continents starting in March 2008. The first flight, from New York, was on 19 June 2008, using a single Boeing 757 transferred from the BA fleet. In July 2008 BA bought French airline L'Avion for £54 million. The operations of BA European merged into L'Avion on 4 April 2009, which became BA OpenSkies. On 24 July 2009, the airline announced that the route from New York-JFK to Amsterdam Schiphol would be suspended as of 16 August, due to economic reasons.〔(OpenSkies to Refocus Business Efforts on Paris – New York Route )〕 On 30 September the airline announced that the Washington to Paris service would be suspended from 29 October.〔Clabaugh, Jeff. (OpenSkies suspends Washington flights ), ''Washington Business Journal'', 30 September 2011, Retrieved 30 September 2011〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「OpenSkies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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