Air France
Business Class
MUC-CDG (Munich Terminal 1 - Paris Charles de Gaulle T2F)
AF1125
Sept 25, 2016
Booked: Airbus 318
Flown: Airbus 318
Departure: 07:15 AM
Arrival: 08:55 AM

We got on board the Airbus 318 without much delay. I had never ridden on an Airbus 318 and it’s reported to be among the least popular narrow body aircraft in the Airbus fleet.

The Sky Priority lane was clearly marked and boarding by status was enforced. An over zealous gate agent tagged my laptop bag with instructions to place it “under the seat”; despite us being assigned the bulkhead seat.



On board, the seating is typical economy with a blocked middle seat. Here is a photo in the event you missed what it looked like. The bulkhead is really the only seat worth having in this cabin – it seems that the seats on the right hand side, 1 D and 1 F have a bit more space than the seats in 2 A and 2 C.

It is also worth noting that when we booked 4 months out, the bulkhead seats were the only seats marked as available. All others were shown as occupied. I don’t know if they expand the business cabin based on demand, but it didn’t seem like last minute travelers would get their preferred seat assignments if they were traveling at the last minute.



We had a prompt, on time departure today, and a climb out of a foggy Munich where the sun was just starting to rise.



Service was a bit slow with breakfast being offered about T+45 minutes. I wasn’t super hungry today after gorging myself in the lounge but I took one for the team and had the breakfast tray being served. The offering had yogurt, heated croissant from the breadbasket and orange juice to drink. For whatever reason, there was no printed menu today like there was on our inbound flight to Munich.



There was plenty of bag space for rollies and other bags, not pictured. If this is a concern for you (as it always is for me) there was nothing to worry about.

Some beautiful clouds as we came into Paris CDG.



We touched down at CDG with distant views to the Air France Concorde at CDG, parking next to other Air France short haul jets.





Overall, it was a pretty average flight no different than any other European carrier short haul. It seemed like supply was short in demand as the cabin was totally full. Had we not booked that far out (4 months), we may not have had any availability.