I completely agree with ahrz. There is quite a lot of north american hostility against AF here. Perhaps some of it is due to the expectations Delta elites had of a Skyteam partner, and which AF was not ready to deliver.

As a former F+ elite, I have had many pleasant if unexceptional flights on AF, and no truly bad one.
The main reason I am not flying them much any more is due to the callous French PAF team at GVA, which twice made me miss my plane by going through every little scrap of paper I carried, for no valid reason whatsoever. They are convinced every cleanly dressed foreigner coming out of GVA has just deposited a fortune in a Swiss bank. One lady even went ballistic upon discovering a change receipt for 50,000 yen. So many zeros, I had to be a millionaire!