Delivered to AF in October 24, so new indeed!

He already had a pack in his hand which he used during the entire flight to dab the runnies, never once blowing his nose!

Push back started at 13:48 and after the standard safety briefing was had arrived at the runway and in the air exactly at 2pm local.

Unusually for me, a quick ‘view of the loo’ which impressed me as even the smaller of the two seen here on the right had sufficient headroom for me to stand up in, unlike the BA A320s which are a contortion every time.



Around twenty minute in to the flight the purser arrived with some treats and bubbly goodies, I could get used to this . The cheesy biscuits were excellent.



A little later the economy service started. A choice of chicken or cheese sandwich, a choice of alcoholic or non alcoholic drinks, and a little pack of decent biscuits all put BAs horrendous economy offering to shame.



The rest of the flight I spent reading and snoozing until the pilots announcement at 15:05 that we were descending and the cabin crew announcement immediately thereafter that we expected to land in around 35 minutes. Ten minutes later the seatbelt lights came on as we had a bit of a bumpy and shaky patch on the way down but it all smoothed out once we were below the clouds.

A really good first experience in AF Y, I can happily fly this. Be interesting to see how CDG-BHX stacks up against it.

On the ground at 15:40 and now trundling around the airport to the gate, so pretty much an on time arrival

I am confused and please feel free not to answer if this is personal... why a dentist in Bucharest? I thought you lived in England.

Just speculating but maybe it's an insurance thing, dentistry in Romania should be miles cheaper than in England. Or a personal connection to the country? Or just the love for the OTP airport

It's been answered in one of the previous threads, there was a lot of dental work and basically it works out as a price of a cheap dentist in the UK but with quality of an expensive dentist in the UK.

Absolutely spot on, and remedial work is guaranteed free of charge so downstream it�s still worth going, plus they are state of the art and I trust them

The trip to the K gates was not too bad, in the order of 20 minutes which gave me just enough time for a very very brief trip to the lounge.



No other photos as it was a super speedy visit, literally had time to eat that and just left again to head to my gate

Beat me to it 😎

Down the escalator to gate 23 so we are on the buses today. A red beep signalled the third boarding pass of the day as they’ve changed the plane yet again. Another tick for AF, they don’t just give you the same seat number, if you’re in an exit they move you to the exit on the new one.

Its taking an age to load everyone on the bus, looks like a lot of people wandering on with paper boarding passes.

Looks tasty, was it? Certainly better than KLM lounges!
I need to try AF in economy and business but the offer looks attractive so far.

One of France's most wanted criminals, Mohamed Amra AKA la mouche ("the fly") - who had escaped from custody last year when his prison van was held up on the motorway and several prison guards killed - was arrested last weekend in Bucharest and extradited to Paris yesterday (Tuesday Feb 25, 2025). Police are probably on the hunt for any accomplices who might try to follow their leader to France...

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2...est-in-romania

I’d definitely eat it again. The pasta was a bit al dente but it sopped up the sauce decently

We have been bussed out to a pier that consists of jet bridges that are accessed by slippery metal stairs, good job it’s not raining… oh, wait! . Some very grumpy passengers behind me starting a chorus of “it’s BS” “it’s total BS”. I guess they’re less than pleased 🤣

Across the aisle in 14C for this trip on another new A220-300 F-HPNP commissioned in December

No point in photos as it’s all identical.

17:43 and we are trundling along the taxiways.

Next Stop: Birmingham by 6pm hopefully

I never experienced a proper bathroom in a BA-Plane.