Had*, seems it was added to work around American Covid restrictions, and it was only active for ~1 month.

You're thinking of the (temporary) Tahiti flight, but that was much longer than 9349 km.

The person you're responding to was talking about the Paris-Réunion flight that has been active for a long time and still active today. I took it 15 years ago when I had to go to Réunion.