<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Occupationalhazard:
On the outbound leg, the AF gate guard quickly found the Elite Plus logo on my PM card, and welcomed me to the lounge (and France, for that matter.)

The lounges were the high point of my AF trip. AF is a clusterf*ck of an airline, but they could improve by doing some really small stuff better, like

(a) checking docs BEFORE boarding...when my delayed from the night before flight finally left, AF had 3 lines to board, each one of which quickly became clogged up b/c of docs checks on people from countries that you have never heard of. Do this BEFORE boarding.

(b) *AHEM* pre-boarding elites.

(c) Not swearing up and down that the plane would be ready in 15 minutes.....11 times over 4 hours. Lyin' MFers. (It would have been longer, but it was the late flight to JFK; there was only limited opportunity for salami tactics).

Regards,

O/H</font>