Hop! to retire all CRJs

The CEO of AF-KLM has announced it will accelerate the reorganization of Hop!. The move is prompted by the ongoing COVID-crisis, which has resulted in a massive downturn in passenger demand.

in February 2019 AF-KLM already announced it would restructure Hop! and integrate them more into Air France, including a rebranding in Air France (by) Hop!-livery. Part of that first restructuring was the retirement of the airline's ATR and focus on domestic and regional flights out of Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly and Lyon.

Now Hop! will abandon Paris-Orly completely and will only operate out of Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Lyon and act as a regional feeder for Air France like KLM cityhopper is doing for KLM. Most of the domestic flights out of Orly will be taken-over by Transavia France and the fleet will be further trimmed by the retirement of their eleven CRJ-700s and fourteen CRJ-1000s. The thirteen ERJ145s are also slated for phase-out in the coming years, leaving Hop! with a fleet of fifteen ERJ170s and seventeen ERJ190s.

Photo by Anton Homma.