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Re: Transatlantic Showdown Part 2: Air France, American Airlines, and British Airways (La Premiere, First, Business Clas

What a nice complicment @bols59! Yes, I was very much silenced!! LOL

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Transatlantic Showdown Part 2: Air France, American Airlines, and British Airways (La Premiere, First, Business Class)

This is a continuation from Part 1: Transatlantic Showdown Part 1: Air France, American Airlines, and British Airways (La Premiere, First, Business Class) Here are some of my other La Premiere trip reports: Air France La Premiere and Business (IAD-CDG-DXB/DXB-CDG-NTE/CDG-JFK) Air France La Premiere,...

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Transatlantic Showdown Part 1: Air France, American Airlines, and British Airways (La Premiere, First, Business Class)

I recently had occasion to take two roundtrip Transatlantic flights back to back on Air France, American Airlines, and British Airways. I had my trip to France on the calendar for a while, and then decided at the last minute to go visit some friends in London for a long weekend one week prior to lea...

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Re: Air France La Premiere and Business (IAD-CDG-DXB/DXB-CDG-NTE/CDG-JFK))

Thank you for your report. It might be coming from a good place, but you should stop giving gifts to cabin crew. It is not appropriate. In some instances it is highly inappropriate for employees of some companies to accept gifts. Yes, I'd love to hear more about this as I have actually been told th...

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Air France La Premiere and Business (IAD-CDG-DXB/DXB-CDG-NTE/CDG-JFK))

Previous Air France LP trip reports: IAD-CDG-LHR/CDG-JFK-RDU: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1477697 RDU-JFK-CDG-PRG/VIE-CDG-JFK-RDU: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1485109 I never intended to go to Dubai on this trip, interestingly enough. I was researching roundtr...

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Re: IAD Before The United Hub

The United hub was initially established in 1986. Here is a snapshot from 1983: -pre hub United was the dominant carrier with 12 daily weekday departures -the main concourse was half its current size -terminals A B C and D did not exist (C and D started construction) -there were 66 daily weekday dep...

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Re: Air France La Premiere, Business, and Delta First Class (RDU-JFK-CDG-PRG/VIE-CDG-JFK-RDU)

Haha funny you should mention that because my large metal Away suitcase received a HUGE dent in it!

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Re: Air France La Premiere, Business, and Delta First Class (RDU-JFK-CDG-PRG/VIE-CDG-JFK-RDU)

The bags that I've had tagged at Dulles and CDG have said "PREMIERE" (and have also included the red tag that you mention). https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/eVoeWl2enrYyTX6ceU0blQqW2jRJi9DVFqK1TWuP4MoxoVX9SIm6exPVWf-nlXtp1iEmSWXqVAK4in6btdBFHoZZmzD9JNMpOsV2DkwnGq5yYla8IZV5FLKWIArLitAJoJDv...

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Re: Air France La Premiere, Business, and Delta First Class (RDU-JFK-CDG-PRG/VIE-CDG-JFK-RDU)

Yes, agreed, odd that the bag tag itself didn't print correctly.

The non First Class outstation question, I think I've just heard different and inconsistent stories from others that led me to believe it was available, particularly for departures. Really just want it to skip the line.

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Air France La Premiere, Business, and Delta First Class (RDU-JFK-CDG-PRG/VIE-CDG-JFK-RDU)

I got really lucky booking this reservation on a single ticket and all as Delta codeshares (more redeemable miles with Delta than if marketed by Air France). I had been looking starting last Fall and could not find any Air France LP tickets that would would begin and/or end in Raleigh with the doubl...

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Air France La Premiere, Business, and Delta First Class (IAD-CDG-LHR/CDG-JFK-RDU)

IAD-CDG AF55 777-300ER (F-GSQC) 10/5/2022 ETD/ATD: 6:25pm/6:25pm Departure Gate: A20 ETA/ATA: 8:10am/7:46am Arrival Gate: Terminal 2E, L gates (but I can’t remember which one) Seat: 1A (later changed to 1L) Class: La Premiere I arrived at Dulles a little bit before 3:30pm. As I approached the dedica...

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Re: Mid-1990s USAir/BA relationship Trans-Atlantic

Seating was in a 2-1-2 configuration, five rows at about 40" pitch. This would have made it competitive with the Club World product that BA offered around that time, but the USAir 767's did not have PTV's in Business Class, whereas the BA Club World Product (including on the 767-300) did includ...

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Apparent American Airlines Domestic F Catering Downgrade - 2017

I observed what appears to be an upcoming downgrade in American Airlines domestic F catering starting on Jan 1 2017 (at least for breakfast flights). I am scheduled to fly CLT - SFO on 12/29 and the choices are: Steel Cut Oatmeal Steel Cut Oatmeal selected for CLT to SFO brown sugar, various fruit g...

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Re: US 762 Question

http://www.departedflights.com/US7671092.html

Seating was 2-1-2; it's hard to tell what the seat pitch was, but based on the configuration, I would guess 40-50".

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DCA Runway Question: Runway 33 For Take Offs (757)

Hello, I flew the <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> non stop from <acronym title="Washington - Ronald Reagan National (DCA / KDCA), USA - Virginia">DCA</acronym>-<acronym title="OLD: Denver - Stapleton International (DEN / KDEN) (closed), USA - Colorado AND CURRENT: Denver - Intern...

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RE: F/J Upgrades: Promote Or Protect?

I was actually thinking about this the other day. I am a Silver Preferred on US and usually get upgraded about 50% of the time. I think that US has a pretty good system for upgrading their preferred passengers with their 7-5-3-2 upgrade window policy for Chairmen-Platinum-Gold-Silver, and only selli...

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Odd Approach To Runway 19 @ DCA

My friends and I were on my roof today in downtown DC and saw the oddest thing ever; an aircraft was approaching (and subsequently landed) on runway 19 at <acronym title="Washington - Ronald Reagan National (DCA / KDCA), USA - Virginia">DCA</acronym> but did not approach via the Potomac, but appeare...

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RE: AC YYZ-GRU In First

Thanks for the report, although I don't really understand why you feel it's necessary to refer to economy class passengers as "peasants." Dare I say you purchased your tickets with miles... Maybe you should think long and hard before posting another trip report and how you refer to people...especial...

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RE: MSP-DTW-CDG-CAI On NW And AF

Great to hear that you had a good experience with Air France's Y product. It really is night and day with regards to American airlines, isn't it? Have a safe return!

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RE: CDG-IAD-CDG On AF

I could tell that they were working REALLY hard...I was sitting next to the desk where the guy was making the announcements and I swear he was doing 100000000 things at once, talking to 50 different people with his walkie talkie...printing off rosters...and making boarding announcements in French an...

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RE: CDG-IAD-CDG On AF

Thanks for all the comments! Always appreciated, especially since I don't post very many trip reports...but I felt like doing it this time since I had such a positive experience with Air France. One thing I would like to point out based on Lufthansa's comments...I'm not comparing Air France to other...

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CDG-IAD-CDG On AF

I am living and working in France this year and at the last minute found a 500 Euro fare on Air France direct from <acronym title="Paris - Charles de Gaulle (Roissy) (CDG / LFPG), France">CDG</acronym> to <acronym title="Washington - Dulles International (IAD / KIAD), USA - Virginia">IAD</acronym> (...

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1999: BWI-PIT-SEA On US Airways In F (pix To Come)

The other day I was going through my scrap book and stumbled upon some momentos from a trip that I took to Seattle on US Airways back in 1999. I have forgotten the majority of the details of the flight, but I wanted to post the menu so that we could all remember what first class on a transcontinenta...

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RE: Air Austral 777 Reunion - Paris With Pics

Foie gras in economy...now that sounds nice. I've always wanted to go to RUN. Glad to hear that you had a good time and a good flight!

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RE: KLM B737-8/900 MAN-AMS-ARN-AMS-MAN Pics/Vids

Great report! I flew KLM-Air France this past weekend from <acronym title="Paris - Charles de Gaulle (Roissy) (CDG / LFPG), France">CDG</acronym>-<acronym title="Berlin - Tegel (TXL / EDDT), Germany">TXL</acronym> via <acronym title="Amsterdam - Schiphol (AMS / EHAM), Netherlands">AMS</acronym> and ...

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RE: Is This An A320 Or A319?

That's what I thought, but I had never heard of it being done before. Thank's for filling me in.

Sam

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Is This An A320 Or A319?

Look at this picture: <a href="http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0829100" target=_blank>http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0829100</a> So, it looks like an A319, but it has two window exits on each side, which would make it an A320. Any thoughts, because it really does look like an A319, but ...

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RE: Using First Class Seats In Your Home, Power?

Here's my question. So, on ebay, there really aren't all that many seats to choose from. It seems like there should be a lot more. For instance, seats from <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> 767-200s, <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> <acronym title="Air Madagasc...

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NWA Flight Attendant Strike

Does anybody know about what is going on with the NWA strike? My parents are in Alaska, and they are supposed to be flying back on NWA tomorrow. I hope they were all able to reach an agreement.

Sam

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Did AA Persuade A Skyteam Elite To Switch? (Pics/Vid)

Glad to finally see AA's first class product on the 767-200s. Always been curious to see what it looks like; quite vintage. I noticed that the business class seats looked quite new.

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RE: Largest Fleet

From what I have heard, Aeroflot did have the largest fleet in the world prior to the break up of the Soviet Union, but when the Soviet Union collapsed, its fleet got dispersed among the former Soviet republics (for instance, Air Kazahkstan, etc.). Just wanted to clear up what Sushka was saying. Wel...

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RE: Awesome New Video

So good...loved it...

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RE: Babies In First

I've heard funny stories about families, where the parents fly first class, and the children fly coach, the wellbeing of the children being left up to the oldest child. When my mom and I moved to London in 1987, we were booked in coach, but ended up flying business class because coach was overbooked...

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RE: Air Chittock 1-Lots Of Pics! Cheers-Beers N Queers

::embarassed face::

I love the subtle disparaties between our two languages (albeit they are both english)...

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RE: Air Chittock 1-Lots Of Pics! Cheers-Beers N Queers

AH! Looks like so much fun. Wish we could have "Cheers, beers, and queers" in America, but I don't know any other queers who like aviation, I don't have any airline seats, etc...

Thanks for the great trip report!

Hilarious!

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RE: US Envoy Service After Merger?

I can't remember which thread I read this in, but I remember reading that although US Airways will become an LCC in North America, they will continue to retain "full service" when flying transatlantic routes. Don't quote me on that. It would be a shame to see them get rid of their Envoy service. I r...

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RE: 757-200 Replacement?

The thing that I don't understand is all this stretching. I mean, take the 747-100; it was a great airplane, state of the art, etc. Then, from that, you get the 747-SP. Same power plant, same wing span, but shorter, so it's more efficient and can fly further. I never understood Boeing's desire for t...

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RE: Why Do Airliners Board On The Left?

To answer Indy's question about why an airport would not utilize double jetways if they had them...my guess would be money and labor. In order to have the ability to do that, you would need double the gate staff in order to board from both doors, dock the jetways, disconnect the jetways, etc. As nic...

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RE: Info About US Airways Envoy

I flew Envoy back in 2001. It was very good...the best thing that I remember about it was the IFE...very good. Obviously, Envoy is not quite up to par with its European equivalents (BA, Virgin, etc...), but in comparison to other US carriers, it's very good. Keep in mind, this was before 9/11, so I ...

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RE: More "Die Hard 2" Observations

I know I know...it's only a film, but I think the thing that bothered me the most was this: I am from DC, I have flown out of <acronym title="Washington - Dulles International (IAD / KIAD), USA - Virginia">IAD</acronym> numurous times. One could say that there are some pretty "generic" looking airpo...

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RE: CLT-JAX Via ATL On Delta (roundtrip)

It was a special promotion. I'm not lying...haha, I didn't even believe the promotion myself. I kept on thinking, there has <acronym title="Gothenburg - Landvetter (GOT / ESGG), Sweden">GOT</acronym> to be a catch here somewhere. Well, there wasn't. There's a post about it in the civil aviation foru...

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CLT-JAX Via ATL On Delta (roundtrip)

I recently flew from <acronym title="Charlotte - Douglas International (CLT / KCLT), USA - North Carolina">CLT</acronym> to <acronym title="Jacksonville - International (JAX / KJAX), USA - Florida">JAX</acronym> via <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson International (The William B Hartsfield...

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RE: Delta Offering Medallion Level For One Flight

Here's a link that explains all of the official benefits of the different Medallion levels. It says very clearly that Silver Medallion does not officially get the priority security lines. <a href="http://www.delta.com/skymiles/about/benefits_at_a_glance/index.jsp" target=_blank>http://www.delta.com/...

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RE: Delta Offering Medallion Level For One Flight

Just to clarify a few things. This promotion only "bumps" you up to silver, not gold or anything higher. Also, Silver Medallion members cannot use priority security lines, so they will not be "clogging" the current priority security lines already at some airports. Also, only Platinum Medallion membe...

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RE: Delta Offering Medallion Level For One Flight

I think that's amazing, but I just have a hard time taking this offer seriously. I mean, I am flying from <acronym title="Charlotte - Douglas International (CLT / KCLT), USA - North Carolina">CLT</acronym> to <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson International (The William B Hartsfield) (ATL ...

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Delta Offering Medallion Level For One Flight

Delta recently started a promotion saying that if you fly on a just one Delta flight out of 14 "select" cities (Charlotte, Erie, etc.), you will automatically receive Silver Medallion status within their FFP. Interesting; how does an airline justify that? I'm sorry, but I am having trouble finding t...

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Comair Introduces Three New Target Cities

I was just talking to my uncle, a Comair pilot, and he was telling me that they have just announced three new focus cities: <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acronym>, <acronym title="Orlando - International (McCoy) (MCO / KMCO), U...

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RE: Ever Wanted To Slap A Spotter?

What really bugs me are the people who don't know anything about aviation, but think they know everything. I know you all know what I'm talking about, like the relative who visits and talk about the plane they flew, even though they know nothing about the airplane they were on. I can't go into speci...

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RE: 757 At Airports Like LGA And Washington Reagan

"EA used its A-300s at <acronym title="Washington - Ronald Reagan National (DCA / KDCA), USA - Virginia">DCA</acronym> quite often" Actually, according to an article written in Airways magazine in 1997 about the <acronym title="Washington - Ronald Reagan National (DCA / KDCA), USA - Virginia">DCA</a...

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RE: Domestic 777 Routes

Interestingly enough, when I was in China, I flew an Air China 777 between <acronym title="Beijing - Capital (PEK / ZBAA), China">PEK</acronym> and Xian (I don't know the airport code), and it was a packed flight. I thought it was bizarre because Xian is not a huge city, and one wonders how a 777 wo...

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