Very happy to see the return of SFO-CDG -- sadly about a year too late for my frequent trips between the two ending -- but still good to see it back.

AF was flying the A380 last summer and even had 2xdaily in peak season with a 747 or A340 and 380 so there is clearly lots of traffic. I think we can all agree that any paying premium passenger would be advised to choose AF but not everybody knows this so UA should be able to get some of this traffic.

I heard once that for AF, CDG-SFO had the "highest percentage of French passengers" compared to any other route they fly. The French love Northern California as a vacation and expat destination so I guess that didn't completely surprise me but that is a strange statistic and I can't find anything to back that up.