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Photo taken by: Jan v. Eymeren
Route: Paris - Houston, 23 Jan 2004
Ticket price: EUR 613,23
Flight duration: 10 hours
Aircraft type & class: BOEING 777-200M; TEMPO Economy Class
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Lunch
- Medalion of duck foie gras, lentil salad
- Salmon ravioli with dill sauce
- Camembert, fresh fruit and
- country-style apple tartlet
- bread
Drink: red vine "Merlot" or white wine "Chardonnay"
Comments: Disgusting foi gras *pfui* , good apple tartlet, red wine delicious.
Service was adequate. Beverages and sandwiches were available in the galleys during the flight (self-service). Sandwiches tasted better than served meal. Nevertheless worse than expected for a French airline.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4

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Photo taken by: Ulrike
Route: JFK-CDG, 23 Jan 2004
Ticket price: Expedia.de = 663€ incl. 6 nights in NYC
Flight duration: 6h10
Aircraft type & class: Coach
Business or leisure trip: Privat
Meal type: Dinner and Snack
Drink: Wat you want
Comments: No coffee for Germans (Bosch)
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 3

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Photo taken by: Bruno R
Route: Mauritius MRU - Paris PAR, 11 Dec 2003
Flight duration: 11 hours
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 747
Business or leisure trip: leisure Business Class
Meal type: Lunch + Dinner
Comments: The choice was bad + dessert not the famous dessert buffet. They told me that it was because this is a more "leisure" destination and they only offer one dessert (no choice).
Good point: We were at upper deck with only 6 pax.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6

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Photo taken by: Herman Hou
Route: Paris (CDG) to Atlanta (ATL), 14 Dec 2003
Ticket price: $800 + SkyMiles upgrade
Flight duration: 9 hours
Aircraft type & class: Airbus A340-300 L'Espace
Affaires (business class)
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch
[144] Appetizer - duck foie gras with marmalade
[145] Main course - Free range chicken with potatoes au gratin
[146] Cheese - Roquefort, Camembert, and I can't remember what the other one was
[147-148] Dessert - Chocolate cake and petits fours basket
Drink: They had a red bordeaux wine and a red burgundy, but their bordeaux was better. With dessert, I had an armanagnac XO.
Comments: Although smaller in quantity than Delta's BusinessElite meal service, the overall quality was better. The foie gras was just as good as you would find on any restaurant on the ground, and French butter tastes much better than it's American counterpart. Chicken was typical airline chicken (overdone and tough), but the heavenly potatoes and sauces made up for it.
Cheese selection was very good as well, even though I didn't have room tofinish it. Although I do like the ice cream that the US airlines give you, the cake was pretty good as well. (After reading so many rave
reviews of the petits fours basket, I had to ask for one. It was pretty good, but not the best dessert I've ever eaten) Wines were great, and AF has a self service bar in the espace cabin on long haul flights.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best):
Foie gras - 10
Chicken - 7
Potatoes - 9
Cheese - 9
Dessert - 9

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Photo taken by: Peter Falatyn
Route: Paris - Moscow, 6 Jan 2004
Flight duration: 3 hours 20 minutes
Aircraft type & class: A-320 Business
Meal type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: Salmon and green beans with some sort of whipped starch (?)
Comments: Really uninspired meal for a French airline.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4

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Photo taken by: Kljajic S.
Route: Paris CDG - Manila, 9 Nov 2003
Ticket price: €775
Flight duration: 13h25
Aircraft and class: Airbus, Economy
Business or leisure trip: Both
Meal type: Regular, dinner
Green Salad with mimosa style egg and Turkey
Broccoli terrine with crayfish and
three-vegetable salad
Rondelé
Apple crumble
Drink: Red Wine (VDP d'Oc Merlot 2002 Maison Louis Eschenauer), tea
Coments: Flew AF couple of years a go on a different Intercontinental flight. Since then their service has been improved a lot. Earlier this year I flew with AF from Miami to Paris and to and from Zagreb, service was excellent, so I am quite sure that this flight was no exception.
Rating 1-10 (worst - best): 7

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Photo taken by: Kljajic S.
Route: Paris CDG - Manila, 9 Nov 2003
Ticket price: €775
Flight duration: 13h25
Aircraft and class: Airbus, Economy
Business or leisure trip: Both
Meal type: Regular, Lunch
Smoked salmon and penne pesto salad
Sauté of beef with Provencale-style sauce
Sautéed mixed vegetables and potatoes
Camembert
Fruit yoghurt
Lemon Tart
Drink: Red Wine (Maison Louis Eschenauer), tea
Coments: Flew AF couple of years a go on a different Intercontinental flight. Since then their service has been improved a lot. Earlier this year I flew with AF from Miami to Paris and to and from Zagreb, service was excellent, so I am quite sure that this flight was no exception.
Rating 1-10 (worst - best): 9