Comments on: Des Couleurs Magnifiques https://askthepilot.com/des-couleurs-magnifique/ THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE SITE FOR EVERYONE WHO FLIES Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:16:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ed Martin https://askthepilot.com/des-couleurs-magnifique/#comment-409884 Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:33:38 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=22159#comment-409884 Transiting CDG is a nightmare, though it isn’t bad if Paris is your destination (the train is great). Personally, I’ve always found AF crews, service and equipment to be very good.

What I eventually found was an even darker corner of CDG … Terminal 1. Apparently it’s been renovated recently, but pre-reno T1 was like the set of some dystopian 70’s sci-fi serial. It was fundamentally confusing and weird.

]]> By: Liam https://askthepilot.com/des-couleurs-magnifique/#comment-409874 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:32:11 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=22159#comment-409874 I fly Air France a lot. I live in Europe and travel to the US frequently, most commonly on Air France/KLM/Delta.
Contrary to James, I find the Air France crews to be very friendly and most helpful. For example, when traveling here (back to Europe) with a very expensive (to replace) guitar, there wasn’t a closet large enough to stow it. So the flight attendants put me in a seat next to an empty seat, and asked me to just put a seatbelt around it. I have many other examples too, but I have found them to be very nice.
I would partially agree about CDG being frustrating, but once you get used to it, it’s not so bad. You just need to time your connections accordingly. FRA is the airport that I will avoid at all costs.

]]> By: James https://askthepilot.com/des-couleurs-magnifique/#comment-409872 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:47:24 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=22159#comment-409872 Just to reinforce the comment from Jeff below (I tried to comment but nothing happened…..). I fly regularly to Europe, and have learned to avoid CDG if at all possible. Schiphol, Munich, and (gasp) even LHR are far easier to navigate and transfer through. I have also found that KLM and almost any other Delta partners (I am a long time NW / Delta loyal passenger) are always friendlier and more accommodating than Air France flight crews. Agreed that the Air France planes are lovely—-but the rest—not so much.

]]> By: Peter https://askthepilot.com/des-couleurs-magnifique/#comment-409724 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:46:53 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=22159#comment-409724 What’s with the “Eurowhite” look, which is now globalwhite? Is there some practical reason why the majority of aircraft are mainly all-white plus logo — thermal management, cost? Even going back through the decades, white is the go-to (non)colour (plus stripe), like Pan Am. I agree Air France’s scheme works well with in this bleached out look.

]]> By: Richard https://askthepilot.com/des-couleurs-magnifique/#comment-409687 Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:03:43 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=22159#comment-409687 My first — and for a long time, only — exposure to the Hippocampe Ailé was in the movie Casablanca. I had no idea what it was, and, as much as I loved planes, didn’t bother finding out until much later in life. You can see it here: https://popculturereferences.com/was-the-famous-rick-ilsa-scene-in-casablanca-done-in-front-of-a-cardboard-model-of-a-plane/

]]> By: Jeff https://askthepilot.com/des-couleurs-magnifique/#comment-409649 Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:19:35 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=22159#comment-409649 No place on earth is designed to enrage you more than CDG. Transiting there three times has convinced me to go out of my way to never do so again.

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