<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by stut:
However, if you're in a premium/business first class (which I wasn't), you do get use of a newly-opened lounge at the Paris and London terminals, which is supposed to be rather nice.
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Actually, in Paris it is the AF Salon L'Espace. The admission of SWISS into OneWorld must have come as a surprise to the planners, as only SWISS has a separate lounge in Terminal 2B.
As to the comparison with the Eurostar, I can only say that although I had meetings near LHR and therefore decided to use the plane, my last two flights from CDG to LHR were heavily delayed :
- Friday, on BA, departure delayed by 40mn; at LHR, we had to wait another 30mn to cross a runway and reach an available parking stand
- Sunday, on AF, we had to wait 20mn near T2 in order to wait for the departure of a TP flight (although actually it was an IB aircraft that we saw leaving the parking stand)
I hope that BAA usually does a better job.