French ultra low cost carrier French bee will be taking on the likes Air Canada, Air France and Transat on the popular Montreal-Paris route! For the summer 2025 season French bee will operate up to 5 flights per week between YUL and Paris-Orly. These will be the airline’s first true service to Canada if you don’t count the short period during the pandemic where they used YVR as a stopover on their Paris to Tahiti route.
Montreal – Paris (ORY)
This route will be operated four times weekly starting on April 30, 2025 and will move to five times during the peak summer months of July and August. The flights will be operated with an Airbus Airbus A350-900XWB. The aircraft features 35 premium economy seats and 376 economy class seats
Here are the flight times (per Aeroroutes)
BF760 ORY 1920 – 2100 YUL
BF761 YUL 2300 – 1200+1 ORY
Earning points & miles on these flights
French bee does not have a frequent flyer program nor do they partner with any other programs. The only points & miles you can earn on these flights are from the credit card purchases or an OTA that has a reward program that award points on flights.
Your best bet is to pay with a card that has a travel accelerator (And good insurance coverage) like The Platinum Card from American Express, American Express Gold Rewards Card or the BMO Ascend World Elite Mastercard
Booking these flights with points & miles
The only points or miles you can use to redeem for French bee flights are from proprietary credit card rewards programs like American Express Membership Rewards, Scene+ (with a Scotia credit card), TD Rewards and others.
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