LIS-CDG-JFK-YHZ-JFK-CDG-LIS-FNC A388, A321 AF, A319TP

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flight is LIS-CDG-JFK-YHZ, but lets cut the crap and move to CDG-JFK leg in the A380.

F-HPJA first A380 in European carriers.

Flight Crew (men...)

Boarding upper-deck (93A)

Up one

nice

Emirates A380

 

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Pushed back from 2 story gate:

Camera:

Strategic off to FNC?

Nice

Scary...

Sarkozy food

Final Taxi before RWY

Ex-AF 747

T/O

 

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the IFE crashed many times, they had to do a general reset, to no avail.

IFE was crap compared to EK's

Long Island:

Mood lighting:

Very Short Final and VERY strong braking:

Why the braking? There's a reason...water just a few meters.

Hifly A345!!!

 

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Swissport?

HSBC??? Feels to never left Europe!

LSG Skychefs here ?

B747 is a dwarf

 

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Leaving back to CDG....

Small

Now to T8, American Airlines:

Listing is by destination and not by STD!!

limo

shuttle

 

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Could we maybe see some photos of YHZ Halifax? Looks like a really nice aircraft, shame about the IFE though. Who knows, maybe I will fly in an A380 some day.

The IFE was crap again, got html file error messages on screen and the Captain annnouced a general reset (did not solve entirely the problem).

YHZ - images not Photoshoped yet, sorry.

inside terminal

Is this the same servisair we have in Europe?

My flight

freebie

nice B1900 in AC colours:

ILS LOC

Nova Scotia landscape

Long island NY

Firemen training "aircraft"

DHL DC-8!!!

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winter equipment

 

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At JFK Terminal 8, will take AirTran to AF's T1

Delta's (not shared with AF). After merging with NWA, it now operates from T2,3 and 4.

T8 on the right

Fynny, the self check-in kiosks do not issue a borading pass, but a paper to be taken to a counter, where an employee will print it.

Now to boarding lounge (security procedures as tight as common in Europe with the addition that everyone must remove shoes and cameras must be taken out).

AZ 767

 

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@ JFk about to board the same A380:

time to board to my crap 48J seat...

inside, stairs to upper deck:

executive

economy

taxi

holding before rwy

 

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the rest of the trip, to avoid overloading the topic.

Cpt Gallois apologised and reset the IFE once again, after this error:

did not work entirely:

A380 toilet rules!!

breakfast:

staircase to upper deck:

I sneaked up...

after a route over eastern Paris, we landed:

Flag ship sister "Charlie"

"Bravo" was away...

 

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From T2F to T2D.

gate d55

A321 to LIS

an old "AIR FRANCE" 321

Train station

What do we see in the middle?

A6-EDE

From Queen to Duchess...

Nice in JFK, nice in Paris,

Can it be the "Bravo"?

 

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Taking off, now!

Le Bourget Airport (and museum)

can you identify these?

Stade de France at Saint Dennis, where the WC98 final was played.

Bad photo of the Eiffel Tower

La Seine

Somewhere over the centre of Portugal

Santarém (I have landed there)

Sintra Portuguese Air Force Base (BA1)

Vila Franca de Xira (Not sure)

Alverca Air Force Base (and also Embraer/EADS MRO company)

Ponte Vasco da Gama, longest bridge in Europe, and Portuguese Air Force Montijo Base

 

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the old World Expo 98 site, Torre Vasco da Gama (left) and Pavilhão Atlântico (right)

Gare do Oriente, multimodal transport station

Sporting Lisbon Stadium

Arsenal do Alfeite - the main Portuguese Naval base

Ponte 25 de Abril - bridge made by the same engineering company that made the similar one in San Francisco.

Lisbon Port VTS tower

Caparica Coast beaches

Jamor Stadium (where the PT Cup final is played and the Tennis Estoril Open is organised)

Tower of Belém

Restelo Stadium

University City

 

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a few hour later, CS-TTM ( A319 TAP) to FNC

the last SATA A310 in old colours:

White A310, a company expanding to Brasil, each a/c with distinct engines and tail colour, remebers Braniff.

White's newest fleet addition CS-TQO (ex-CCM)

CS-TTM is the one at the end

After all the travel in the last few hours, I slept all the way until touchdown in FNC, and my windows was too dirty for any photo.

 

[Sisio89 CTA]

TR STUPENDOOOO!
Magnifico il 380!!!

 

[blueSid]

Nice TR!
Haha, beautiful sight of IFE failure

 

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Nice TR!
Haha, beautiful sight of IFE failure

A few passagers where furious, and onde demanded a AF representative to be present when the a/c landed.

 

[alex86]

L'IFE che si blocca sui nuovissimi a380 è tragico...

Per il resto è un ottimo TR

 

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L'IFE che si blocca sui nuovissimi a380 è tragico...

Per il resto è un ottimo TR

questo e de Thales, in il Emirates A380 funciona bene, piò essere il panasonic

 

[Bender]

Complimenti per il mega TR!!!

Foto in ogni fase del viaggio! Bene

 

[AlicorporateUK]

It is quite heartening [and certainly makes a change] flicking through an English speaking TR on here Furthermore, a sterling job from your side - cheers