Originally Posted by
hughw
Thanks....very good advice....I'm not familiar with AC Rouge but I did fly AC's cattle car, vintage 767 ATH-YUL several years ago and vowed never to have anything to do with AC again.
But, the AC Rouge flight is the only available flight that I've found that day with one possible exception. They could take Aegean ATH-FRA connecting to LH FRA-BOS, but involves leaving a couple hours earlier and a 7 hour layover in FRA, then arriving BOS about 2 hours later than AC. So is adding about five hours to their trip length worth it to avoid AC?
This is not AC that you know and flew, as bad as mainline AC is, this is worse than you can imagine. Read the reviews. Its 30" of pitch for 10 hours. Yes I would do ATH-FRA-BOS, I would never let my family fly Rouge.
7 hour layover in FRA is not that bad - you can easily go for a trip to the city.
Is there anything that even with an extra connection in Europe would shorten the FRA layover? Do a separate search for ATH-FRA and see whats available.