Low-cost carrier Transavia France, an Air France-KLM subsidiary, resumed nonstop flights between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (LPA) and Bordeaux-Mérignac (BOD) on 21 December and issued a market update on 22 December. The weekly Saturday service—priced from €39 one-way—runs through March 2026 and complements existing Transavia flights from Gran Canaria to Paris-Orly and three Dutch cities.
The Canaries’ tourism board welcomed the move, noting that France is the archipelago’s seventh-largest source market but one of the fastest growing, up 18 % year-on-year. Bordeaux was last linked to Gran Canaria in 2019; the restored route is expected to carry 9,000 passengers in its first season, supporting both holiday traffic and the island’s growing French expatriate community.
For mobility managers, the LPA–BOD link offers a convenient option for oil-and-gas, wine and aerospace executives shuttling between south-west France and West Africa via Gran Canaria’s hub of regional feeders. The flight departs BOD at 07:00, arriving LPA at 10:20, with the return leg leaving at 11:10 and landing 16:20 local time, enabling same-day onward connections to Dakar and Nouakchott.
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Before finalising itineraries, travellers should confirm visa requirements for Spain and any onward Schengen destinations; VisaHQ’s streamlined portal (https://www.visahq.com/spain/) can identify documentation needs in minutes, arrange consular appointments and courier passports, saving both leisure visitors and corporate travel planners valuable time and hassle.
Gran Canaria’s government is offering a €3 landing-fee rebate per seat to airlines that open new French routes, part of a broader strategy to diversify visitor markets beyond Germany and the UK. Industry analysts expect rival carriers Vueling and Volotea to evaluate similar secondary-city links for summer 2026.
Travellers should note that the service operates on Boeing 737-800 aircraft equipped with European Aviation Network (EAN) Wi-Fi, useful for remote workers combining ‘work-cation’ stays with trans-European assignments.
The Canaries’ tourism board welcomed the move, noting that France is the archipelago’s seventh-largest source market but one of the fastest growing, up 18 % year-on-year. Bordeaux was last linked to Gran Canaria in 2019; the restored route is expected to carry 9,000 passengers in its first season, supporting both holiday traffic and the island’s growing French expatriate community.
For mobility managers, the LPA–BOD link offers a convenient option for oil-and-gas, wine and aerospace executives shuttling between south-west France and West Africa via Gran Canaria’s hub of regional feeders. The flight departs BOD at 07:00, arriving LPA at 10:20, with the return leg leaving at 11:10 and landing 16:20 local time, enabling same-day onward connections to Dakar and Nouakchott.
Before finalising itineraries, travellers should confirm visa requirements for Spain and any onward Schengen destinations; VisaHQ’s streamlined portal (https://www.visahq.com/spain/) can identify documentation needs in minutes, arrange consular appointments and courier passports, saving both leisure visitors and corporate travel planners valuable time and hassle.
Gran Canaria’s government is offering a €3 landing-fee rebate per seat to airlines that open new French routes, part of a broader strategy to diversify visitor markets beyond Germany and the UK. Industry analysts expect rival carriers Vueling and Volotea to evaluate similar secondary-city links for summer 2026.
Travellers should note that the service operates on Boeing 737-800 aircraft equipped with European Aviation Network (EAN) Wi-Fi, useful for remote workers combining ‘work-cation’ stays with trans-European assignments.
