Bonjour, dear reader,
the search for new airports and routes, for my log book, again and again is an interesting topic.
How about with Toulouse, on the way to Spain, I'm already often flew over the airport, but was never on the ground.
Some domestic flights in France, I also seem attractive.
gives During the preparations, there are also no signs of the current strike, booked then .
fix in July
Here are again my starting airports:
Departure airports on a larger map View
And the current route map:
reporter's trip flights on a larger map
But now, three flights a la Francais!.
Monday, 25/10/2010
SXB (Aeroport de Strasbourg)
ORY (Aeroport de Paris-Orly)
service Air France AF 7303 plans carried out by Brit Air
: 06.50 / / 07:50 is
The KLM website as always My goal during online check-in for Air France.
Easy and fast, the seat selection is possible here.
The price for this flight is 50.00 Euro's, posted on Exp.de. The planned
Fokker 100 on the seat map, 20A is free, the two-seater near the engine and with a good view, according to the wing, the place for me.
When boarding is provided for 06.20 clock,
shows me that once again the harsh reality of the flights in the early morning, but all just for fun, as we know.
departure from Strasbourg, much cheaper and with better timing than of Germany.
The technique shows me to drive 2 hours,
my phone wakes me up at 03.00 clock and go perfectly on time at 04.00 clock.
Now, dear readers, I promise, now and forever, I will go before that next times.
That was as concise as possible.
It seems the economic recovery of all available trucks are back on Germany's motorways and this together with the site, the Rhine Valley motorway is called, between Karlsruhe and Strasbourg, I'm at the airport at 06.15 clock.
ten minutes at one, it feels extremely slow security check.
The employee at the gate informed us that boarding will start at short notice when I am there. A quick visit to the toilet, some pictures and then boarding at Gate 30, in the positive sense, I have not lost one minutes unused.
deleted Amsterdam, Bordeaux late, not the best character here
The clean, but with these old-fashioned metal seats is not really nice looking gate on the first floor of the finger-boarding
The cockpit crew from France, the pilot with a short welcome during boarding and the information that we miss several more passengers.
feeling good place here in Economy.
I get one as the last passenger, so it looks 20B seat is occupied, 19A / B is free to change any Fage for me to 19A.
An older French woman comes on board and will come back to 19B.
So I have my original position adjacent an empty seat gives his side.
average, which is good, 90% on Monday morning
A look at the dark before and the wings of the Fokker 100
The cabin crew is a nice middle-aged woman and a young, bored man
Dark gray Leather seats here, well used, allows the seat back is adjustable and the safety demonstration is manually
The security card
start of the 2400 meter track 23, it is 07.10 clock, 20 minutes late, possibly more later in the day?.
The temperature is 5 degrees and it's cloudy here in Strasbourg.
50 minutes now to Paris Orly.
The current magazine, well, in my opinion the weather is not really appropriate in these days for beach holidays around Hamburg
A graph of the first sun rays around the corner
It releases a brioche, coffee and water.
no information on distance or altitude.
A night view of the engine
On the approach to Orly
Shortly before the arrival to the city in the background
landing on the 3320 meter track 26, it is 08.00 clock, ten minutes later, clear skies here in Paris, and only 4 degrees.
Airlinair next to us on the ramp
get in and out to the waiting bus
Registration, my second flight on F-gPXE and route No. 19 on the F100.
This machine is in service with Air Inter as of 09/20/1995, on Air France from 9/12/1997 and then on to Brit Air 25/03/1999. A
of 9 in the current fleet, the latest copy.
It seems that Brit Air F100 reduced the fleet.
F-GPXJ I've flown in February, was during the summer in Iran sold
The machine in sight
An ATR on arrival
Monday 10/25/2010
ORY (Aeroport de Paris-Orly)
TLS (Aeroport de Toulouse-Blagnac)
Service AF carried out planned 6112 by Air France
: 09.50 / / 11.00
by bus to the terminal, there is no direct route to the departure gates, thus in the public sector.
I go around and explore the old-fashioned terminal.
The apron with my machine in the background
The right of way in the early morning
A work of art in a unique style
self-service to an AF / KL switch with a large number of laptops, where the only available website, of course, AF / KL is
"Embarquement for Toulouse, but no rush, my flight is at 09.50 clock
Is there really, other fins as Air France
Orly-Ouest is divided into four separate halls with a security check for each application
The boarding passes are scanned at the entrance, five minutes waiting time. This flight I had booked
at Exp.de, the price is good with 50.00 Euro's.
I've already checked here again refers to KL's website, 31F is the last available window seat in the rear cabin.
It is an A321 on the flight plan and also on the seat map.
More than 200 flights back, since my last track on this type, that is ok.
soon as I in the small and crowded gate area for the Navette shuttle flights to Nice / Marseille and Toulouse, am
is this machine in the latest colors
perfectly on the center line
And parked at a gate without a flight on the screen
Yes, it is my machine of gate 20E
ground service in use
This is not my gate, but pleasant colors here is
F-GTAx me to Toulouse To bring the planned A321, a new registration
and route No. 17 on this type.
Working for Air France since 08/06/2009, one of 24 in the fleet, the second latest copy.
Boarding begins and after the passengers at the gate a very good utilization. know
CCM Corsica
We, I am one of the last, if not the last passenger. In the machine, a large group of school children around my seat, but what is it?.
On the seat map there are 36 rows, 37 rows here are definitely on board.
There are probably different rooms in the newer or older machines.
A nice, young flight attendants in the rear Kitchen.
"Is it possible to take the last row, the children occupy my place and it is probably too quiet for me to sit here?".
"Sure, wait a minute, if there are other passengers for the last row, no problem if the courts are free."
"Well, I was the last passenger at the gate."
"Thanks, good to know, take a seat."
ie then, when the occupancy of more than 90%, as specified by the flight attendant almost a full flight, I had the complete series, 37 for me
The seats thin and hard, the seat backs can not be adjusted, especially for the short distances, so it looks like.
The cockpit crew is from France, during the pilot with a brief welcome of the boarding. The English
corner
A rolling start of the 3650 meter track 24 at 10:00 clock, ten minutes after schedule.
The sky is clear and the temperature at 8 degrees.
1 hours now for Toulouse.
the cabin, the safety demonstration is to manually clean, the place sense is ok
The cabin ceiling
The slim security card
five cabin crew on this route,
an older woman, ok, a middle-aged man, also ok and three nice young men.
Air France Service on the small tray
Few clouds over central France
Significantly more clouds ahead close to the Pyrenees
The airport in the clouds, the pilot logs again
A curve
to approach
autumn landscape
The city in the background
landing on the 3,500-meter track 32L. It is 11:00
clock, on time, only slightly cloudy, but the temperature is only 6 degrees and blowing a gusty, cold wind,
not really nice weather here
three A380 under construction in the background
The Airbus part of the airport
Very slow service on the ground here, this feels like a go-slow.
We have more than ten minutes for the plane to get off.
From the security area, I will attend the Tour a map and ride the Navette Airport bus to town, 5.00 €'s not really cheap but fast and on time.
city life close to the center
balconies and beautiful clear skies, garbage on every corner, the strike is good to note
This looks like a castle from
A nice blue sky above
The City Council
A nice place for the tourist information
I walk through the town hall
A nice detail
"Place du Capitole"
Toulouse is also called "La ville rose", the city in pink
The Grand Hotel de Opera
all built of brick
Around the "Place du Capitole"
An old-fashioned business
Enough now back with the cold wind whistles around the corners, to the airport for 5.00 Euro's more, I'm good in time for the next flight, but the flight so good in time as I do?.
Monday, 25/10/2010
TLS (Aeroport de Toulouse-Blagnac)
SXB (Aeroport de Strasbourg)
service Air France AF carried out planned 5545 of Regional CAE
: 18.45 / / 20:10
The Online check-in via KLM works without any problems for AF 5543, I will seat 19A, the last row of windows on the proposed 145th Embraer I'm busy
Exp.de, the price 70.00 €'s.
Well, that is a good looking terminal
The priority
No, that is not a spaceship
We see the person in the mirror photograph
I, double
interesting to Medina, later, airline code 999?
Strasbourg looks ok from here
In Terminal, beautiful lights
Spacious and airy, well done
No waiting at the security checkpoint, and shortly thereafter in the gate area.
En route to the non-Schengen gates
No negative sign for my flight
Star Air and an unknown 747 on the apron
the ground floor for the Bus Gates, even with good design
The Airbus Museum in the background
KLM and white Airbus machines
The Airbus advance
no sign of the boarding, no landing Embraer 145, which planned machine for my flight, no movement on the ramp for regional flights.
"Vol retard" flight is delayed
I'm probably the only non-French speaking passengers here, the middle-aged employees at the gate told me anything personally, so I know something more than usual.
The machine is running out of time from Toulouse to Milan and even another hour to arrive vespätet.
20 minutes later they told me that the machine is still in Milano, with a technical problem.
The flight is not canceled, but it will be good.
you sends me to the Air France service counter.
I mention the snake behind me with the French passengers.
To my surprise, the clerk reported that Air France to Lille is deleted, but not my flight to Strasbourg.
Now, back to the gate where the employees repeatedly apologized that the flight has now been deleted but does not wait and we will continue until the next information.
The next information is then shortly afterwards on the screen and now the flight is really deleted, it goes with me to the service counter
a connection via Paris-Charles-des-Gaulle is not offered, Orly is possible to two flights ex Toulouse, Strasbourg but Orly is to be later than 21.00 clock in Strasbourg.
"How about the late afternoon nonstop flight?".
"Sorry, no free seats," I refer to my Air France Gold Elite status, she works on a computer and surprise, there is one open seat.
Reclassified, a new boarding pass, seat 1F, not the usual place for me, but ok in this case.
I receive several vouchers and have to follow now considerably more time than expected to the Airbus Airshow.
later I see only one more, for business-looking woman among the passengers for my flight by passengers at the previous gate.
Most probably then have to connect through Orly accepted.
Air Austral and Airbus Transport
Air Asia, far from the future home
Austral to Marseille, interesting, and on to Reunion
The A330 makes several quick go-around
How a fighter plane
Emirates also a go-trial
of looking to military A330 comes in to land
the screen with my later flight
OLT with the Fokker 100 and also with the Saab 2000 at the Airbus factory flights
Werder Bremen and Finke, BMI to Filton.
All three machines are the perfect day on the ramp
surprise that is in the early afternoon arrived Embraer 170 my machine to Strasbourg are
It's F-HBXH, a new registration and therefore not planned flight No. . 6 on this type. In use since at
Regional 01.05.2010.
One of ten machines in the current fleet
A lean machine
And that is Alwafeer Air of Saudi Arabia with target Medina
Two nice young men from Japan on a trip to Europe with large cameras come with me to the observer-corner, with the best view of the apron.
We have an interesting conversation about all these non-scheduled flights. The new Airbus A400M military
Transportation during the approach
On the way to run Airbus
Boarding begins finger gate 22 and I with seat 1F and an expected good utilization'm now the first passenger in the machine
a nice logo, the cabin crew is a very nice woman and a man
The cockpit crew is from France, the pilot with a relaxed, short welcome during boarding .
just started by the 3000 meter track 32R with the airport in the background.
It is 18.45 clock, temperature is 8 degrees and it is cloudy, 1 hour, 20 minutes here as far as Strasbourg
Dark blue leather seats, clean, very good legroom in the front row.
The last sun rays on the winglet
snacks and drinks are on offer.
The pilot logs on again with flight information, the route via Lyon and Dijon 33000 feet.
landing on the track 05, it is 20.10 clock, on time, even here, 8 degrees, but clear skies.
In Strasbourg at the gate
Exact same madness on the road and 2 hours, 30 minutes later I'm back home.
Well, what we expect from a trip to France in these days of strikes.
It worked, the Embraer 170 is an interesting machine and Toulouse, a beautiful city.
The Air France staff in Toulouse and the airport was nice, in my view, it is certainly value to go back to Toulouse.
The next story is in the works:
"Sardinia nationally and some MD80's.
soon, the trip
Reporter
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