Originally Posted by CO 1E
Arriving at CDG on CO is always a strange experience for the reason you describe. It's quite bizzare to step off a 777, CO's flagship aircraft and a paragon of commerical aviation technology, onto a set of stairs and onto a bus. It's like deplaning from a CRJ and is especially fun in the winter.
It's not only CO; at least with CO, usually 2 of the 3 flights get a gate with a jetway at Terminal 2A. Both DL and NW never get jetway gates because they operate out of 2E (the collapsed terminal) and virtually all (except for CVG and DTW) of AF's US-CDG flights now will also not get jetways at all because they have been moved to 2E as well.