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Air France from Aberdeen, Scotland (ABZ) - Tokyo (NRT)



 
 
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Old March 21st, 2004, 10:05 PM
Maclock
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Default Air France from Aberdeen, Scotland (ABZ) - Tokyo (NRT)

I have an opportunity to fly Air France round-trip on the above-noted
routing at what would appear to be the unbelievable price of ~ £480,
inclusive of taxes and airport charges. The flight is routed via
Paris (CDG) and will be in economy class.

While I have no problem flying economy from ABZ to CDG, it may prove
to be an awfully long flight in either direction between France and
Japan at the back of the plane. Should anyone reading this have done
really long-non stop flights on Air France before, please share your
experiences with me. I have flown Air France on short European hops
once before and found them to be perfectly acceptable, but I don't
know what to expect on long-haul international flight with them.

Thanks in advance!
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Old March 21st, 2004, 10:46 PM
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Default Air France from Aberdeen, Scotland (ABZ) - Tokyo (NRT)

"Maclock" wrote in message
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I have an opportunity to fly Air France round-trip on the above-noted
routing at what would appear to be the unbelievable price of ~ £480,
inclusive of taxes and airport charges. The flight is routed via
Paris (CDG) and will be in economy class.

While I have no problem flying economy from ABZ to CDG, it may prove
to be an awfully long flight in either direction between France and
Japan at the back of the plane. Should anyone reading this have done
really long-non stop flights on Air France before, please share your
experiences with me. I have flown Air France on short European hops
once before and found them to be perfectly acceptable, but I don't
know what to expect on long-haul international flight with them.


It'll be the same as any other longhaul (NRT is virtually ultra-long haul at
almost 12 hours outbound and closer to 13 on the way back) in economy
class - pretty awful. I've travelled from London to Tokyo twice, once on
BA, once on Virgin, and they were both pretty dire - the BA was perhaps
slightly better because at the time (1991) they had economy seating on the
upper deck of the 747 and it was a little nicer than the main deck.
However, a trip of that length in economy is never all that nice.

AF operate both 777s and 747s depending on the day of the week and time of
day. My personal preference would strongly be for a 777 against a 747 -
more modern, more likely to have decent in-flight entertainment, and for
some reason it seems more comfortable to me. Others may differ.

This site may help: http://www.airlinequality.com/Forum/af.htm

Air France's seat pitch is listed at 31" on www.uk-air.net and other sites,
which is the same as most European carriers. This is not fabulous if you
are taller than about 5'8" but probably no worse than any other airline in
Economy. It could be worse - at least you're not contemplating travel on
BA.



 




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