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Perhaps because of, or owing to, or being the result of, the demise of SilverJet, MaxJet, EOS, all business class flight between New York and London or Paris, Open Skies, the British Airways entry into upgraded flights has a complement with French company L'Avion, read more here.

British Airways has announced an agreement to acquire French airline, L‘Avion and integrate the company with its new subsidiary OpenSkies at the cost of 68 million euros.

This was disclosed in a statement from BA on Thursday.  OpenSkies recently inaugurated daily flights between Paris Orly Airport and New York John F. Kennedy Airport. L‘Avion operates two Boeing 757-200 with 90 Business Class seats only. L‘Avion flies between Paris-Orly and New York-Newark twice daily, 5 times a week.

The statement said, ”The combined airline will operate up to three daily flights between Paris Orly and the New York area using Boeing 757 aircraft. The value of the acquisition is Euro 68 million, which covers the purchase of the airline and Euro 33 million of cash in its business.”