High Flying to France

Free newspapers for all - that's one perk you won't find at JFK unless your privileged enough to gain access to the Air France-KLM lounge. But here at Charles De Gaulle airport, it's civility and equality for all with newspapers in a wide variety of languages at all terminals.

My flight in last night was semi-uneventful other than sitting through three showings of the same movie because my in flight entertainment systme was busted and wouldn't turn off. Try watching balding apocalyptic monsters chase down sole survivor Will Smith in "I am Legend" 3x in the span of a 6 hour flight and you too will want to hurl yourself out the nearest exit. The flight in was overbooked so there was no bouncing seats or upgrading. The bird I flew is nicknamed the "Superjumbo" and is the largest passenger plane in the world. It carries over 800 passengers split into 3 classes, first, business and then the normal people. That's 10 seats across or 3 on each side and 4 in the middle, enough seats to get lost in. It's only been in service for a year and I was lucky enough to enjoy a flight over on one last night.