I got to CDG and from past experience wasn't impressed with the facilites and terminals (especially the old and crowded 2B and 2D) but to my surprise I quickly changed my mind when I walked through terminals 2E as well as 2F which is where I took my flight.
Picture of the beautiful 2F with duty free shops, restaurants and lounges on a bottom level and waiting lounges on the top level (very good use of space and more relaxing for passengers)
I was also impressed at the free golf cart service between neighbouring terminals. I jumped on and with 2 other people was taken to 2F via the underground passage and whisking past people on the escalators. The driver told me this is a free service for the summer. 2F is mainly a long-haul and non schengen terminal. There were 747 and 777 from JAL as well as wide body AF Airbus' to Johannesburg and other long-haul destinations.
After day dreaming that I could be one of those lucky passengers to Tokyo I quickly made my way to the boarding gate for the 45 min flight to London's City airport. A bus took us to our plane which was painted with Air France's livery but was operated by City Jet (mention of this below the AF logo):
picture from Airliners.net http://www.airliners.net/open.file/732812/M/
Once aboard the crew only appeared to speak english with an Irish accent though they did have Air France uniforms. After a very brief message from the pilot our mostly empty plane left on time. I wasn't really enjoying this old and noisy BAe 146. The seats were old and worn out and the colours were bery much those used in the 90's.
After we finished climbing to cruising altitude two air hostesses walked down with trays in their hands and didn't bother with the food trolley as there were only about 15-20 passengers. I was quite surprised this much food was given as the previous week I had flown to London Heathrow with AF and we were only given a bag of Pretzels and non-alcoholic drink.
The food wasn't actually that good and I could see from the sticker it was made 2 days before the flight. A bit hungry so I ate it anyway.
Before I knew it we were flying over the beautiful English country side and the pilot announced we were beginning our descent into LCY.
It was time to land into LCY and I must admit it's quite an interesting approach and at the last moments similar to SFO (San Francisco) as your flying over water and onto a runway that's built from reclaimed land.
(sorry for the poor quality)
Within 2 minutes we had left the runway and we were parked facing away from the terminal building like all the other planes parked that day. next to our plane was a VLM Fokker 50. The majority of the passengers were businessmen eager to get to their offices or meetings quickly so I was surprised when the plane's front and back doors were opened. It took me less than 5 minutes to get from my seat on the the plane, walk through customs and walk outside of the terminal building.
Not a bad flight and interesting to fly one of AF smaller planes and landing into LCY. Not too impressed by the level of service of City Jet (i.e. I don't give a f*ck attitude). Anyone got any info on this franchise?
Captain.
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