When we arrived at JFK to fly back to Paris we were a bit surprised to hear the flight was sold out. It's a Tue night, for goodness sake! Turns out everyone was there to get a ride on one of the new Airbus A380's that Air France has recently started using. It is a ridiculously large aircraft, a double-decker from end to end that seats from 550-800 people, depending upon the mix of business and coach seats. Pingles sat downstairs and I sat upstairs. I hate to be negative, but lame Air France got these beautiful new planes and loaded them with the same crappy 1990's seats from their regular fleet. And, as is usual with Air France, we took off late, landed late and didn't get all our luggage for 1 1/2 hrs after landing.
New planes, same crappy company, same crappy service. Vive la usual. I did learn, however, that you can fly from NY to Paris in 6 hrs, 2 hrs faster than normal. I think they sped up due to our late departure. Pingles tells me they usually fly at a slower clip because that's the optimal fuel-burning speed.
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How come you sat in different places? Sounds like discrimination to me.
She sat downstairs because she's the VIP flyer.
Well, actually, I was the one in business class and Pingles was in coach. Why? Because it is not a work-sponsored flight for her but a pleasure flight....
Yeah.. real pleasurable :(
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