Originally Posted by badata2d
What a waste, seems unlikely to me. Very few experienced flyers would ever take this flight if they had to connect given all the connection issues in CDG and the quality of the staff. Most flyers would continue to take AMS for their connections; which just leaves people looking for a direct to Paris. Again, a pretty undesireable option as long as it is primarily inhabited by the French!
AF & FL are not fully intergrated yet. And remember a MSP-CDG flight benefits NW because AF can send a ton of folks from all over their huge network to MSP and beyond. The NW & AF codeshare has just begun. I think it makes sense and offers all of us additional options to get to/from Europe.
DTW has BOTH a NW and an AF flight to/from CDG almost every day.
That said CDG is no AMS in terms of ease of use, but the new DTW-style people mover should help a lot when it's finished. Once NW & DL can move back to the real 2E that will help a lot too.