Now back to intra-european C...

Up to end of last year I commuted every week between DUS and CDG, sometimes with LH but more often with AF.

I think you can't compare intra-european C with american F. The longest routes in Europe I flew (I can't think of many longer routes) have been about 3 hours flight.
One can't compare that with the long american routes (ORD-LGA: 2,5 hours for example, and you have not yet passed half the way transcon), these are other distances. I would be also completely pissed off to spend a transcon route in the USA on a A320 like AF has configured it.

For my travel habits I spend mostly between 1 and 2 hours on intra-european flights, and for that C class in 3-3 config is pretty ok...


And AF C Class is really not that bad, ok, you have plastic cups, etc... But the service is quiet attentive and mostly very nice.

One more good thing about AF on "my" DUS-CDG route is they fly A32X , while LH only flies CRJ's. Now lets talk about C Class on a CRJ, there is virtually no difference between C and Y.

So I think, you're not that bad with AF.

Cheers
AF_FP