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Old Nov 7, 2007, 8:40 am
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A380 - Montreal - Paris CDG - route verification flight operated by Airbus/AirFrance



Air France and Airbus Industries will operate a route verification flight flight with an A380 from CDG to YUL on November 12th. The A380 will leave CDG at 11:00AM to land in YUL at 12:35PM.
The return flight will leave YUL at 10:00PM on the 15th of Nov. to land the next morning in CDG at 10:45AM.
Because of close contact between myself and AF management as a result of FT I got a phone call asking me if I wanted to be on that flight. As you all can imagine I said yes without hesitating since I am sure, this non-commercial flight will be a once in a lifetime experience and I'd like to say that I am very excited and thankful that AirFrance gave me the opportunity to be on the flight from Montreal to Paris with Freddie Jr and even better - I got a free flight from Strasbourg to Montreal to be able to board that flight. In this thread I will share my Montreal trip with the FlyerTalk community.

Here's the information/schedule I was given so far:

Nov14th SXB-CDG AF 7763 Fokker100
Nov14th CDG-YUL AF 346 777-300 new configuration.

Nov15th YUL-CDG AIB380/1X380P operated on A380 in Airbus Livery


I will try to make as many photos as possible and post everything here in this thread. FYI, this is NOT the livery and interiour, AirFrance will use for their regular flight, but the A380-test-configuration.

Departure at YUL
- 18H30 – 20H45 : check-in in zone AF/KL
- seats are pre-assigned. no change possible.
- 20H45 : boarding gate 55
on board
- meal type «Affaires» in all cabins
- crew will be AirFrance and Airbus
- all cabins can be visited inflight
- 11H00 : scheduled arrival at CDG
- classic CDG arrival procedure (customs and immigration)

after that flight I plan to return to Strasbourg on the TGV.
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Old Nov 7, 2007, 8:41 am
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official website for the A380 Montreal trip

NOV14 AF7763 SXB-CDG operated by BritAir in a Fokker100 registered F-GPXD
NOV14 CDG: transfer, lunch and the new S3 terminal
NOV14 AF346 CDG - YUL operated by AirFrance in a 777-300ER registered F-GZNA

NOV15 A380 flight 1X380P before boarding - check in
NOV15 A380 flight 1X380P before boarding - gate area
NOV15 A380 flight 1X380P inflight experience and arrival at CDG
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Old Nov 7, 2007, 9:16 am
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Wow Chris, that is beyond terrific! Looking forward to the report!
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Old Nov 7, 2007, 9:24 am
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One of my colleagues was also invited for that flight and was looking forward to it but... I organized a very important meeting on the 14th where he HAS to be... so my poor colleague is now hating me!!!!
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Old Nov 7, 2007, 10:12 am
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Originally Posted by Joelle
One of my colleagues was also invited for that flight and was looking forward to it but... I organized a very important meeting on the 14th where he HAS to be... so my poor colleague is now hating me!!!!
How could you? We Canadians would never do that!
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Old Nov 7, 2007, 10:21 am
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Well... the meeting date has been set about four months ago.... but my colleague (who is a nice fellow) never watches carefully his agenda!!!
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Old Nov 7, 2007, 10:31 am
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I am looking forward to that unique report !
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WoW!!!
Now will this make you an unbiased AF-fan-for-life?

Just kidding, enjoy it!!!
Looking forward to the report.
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Old Nov 7, 2007, 11:40 am
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Very cool!

Since it is for Air France, I suspect that it will be an GP7200 powered A380.

If it is the same a/c that came to Hartford last month, then it will be fitted-out with several rows of the old Air France J seats.

Enjoy the flight, it will be memorable experience.
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Old Nov 7, 2007, 7:08 pm
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Looking forward to your report; I was unaware there were other engines than RR fitted to A380s, so I've learned something else.

Congrats and enjoy. ^
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Old Nov 7, 2007, 8:37 pm
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Old Nov 8, 2007, 6:08 am
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Looking forward to read the trip report
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Old Nov 8, 2007, 6:36 am
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Originally Posted by Joelle
One of my colleagues was also invited for that flight and was looking forward to it but... I organized a very important meeting on the 14th where he HAS to be... so my poor colleague is now hating me!!!!
Can I take his spot?! Oh please, oh please, oh please!!!
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Old Nov 8, 2007, 7:10 am
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Please include me in the list of the incredibly envious!!
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Old Nov 8, 2007, 10:04 am
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Can I take his spot?! Oh please, oh please, oh please!!!
I think his spot has been offered to another Platinum long ago now....
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