Originally Posted by cheltzel

If you can get AF awards and the flight times are acceptable to you, I would book them in a heartbeat. IMO AF is one of the better business classes among all those flying between North America and Africa.

If you use UA miles, both ET and MS are fairly generous with award availability. And both have relatively low award fees (typically well under $200 per person round trip). Neither of these airlines offer a state of the art business class hard product.