Contador, who threw away a winning position in the Paris-Nice stage race, showed he is back to his best form on home soil as he builds up to the Tour de France.
It completes a miserable 2012 for Schleck, who has been forced to abandon preparatory stage races such as Paris-Nice, the Tour of Catalunya and the Dauphine through a mixture of injury and illness.
Air France, meanwhile, recently began a pilot program with travel-technology group Amadeus for frequent flyers between Nice and Paris's Orly airport that could potentially save passengers crucial time.