Review of Air France Hop flight Mulhouse / Bâle → Paris in Economy

to start with

Back again for more English translations, always a pleasure to write in a foreing language, so please bear with me with typos or spelling errors :)

This new series will bring me to Colombia, I found a super deal for 1'200€ from CDG with LH via FRA. The flights to and from CDG will be with AF HOP! including overnighting at the Sheraton CDG (overpriced but the best hotel in terms of location) and the flights to Bogotá with the mighty A340-300.

eap or hell-ap

My father dropped me off that morning:

AF counters were a bit busy but ok:

The SkyPriority line was the easiest way to skip the lines:

The friendly agent gave me my boarding passes and advised me not to loose any minute to go through security since they had a planning mistake and were totally understaffed. Lots of people already missed their flights that morning due to that.

Believe me, this is the first time I see such a queue, in 35+ years travelling from this airport:

OK there are a lots of flights to depart, but still …

Usually you should be able to see two set of stairs and an elevator here :)

Same mess upstairs:

After half an hour in the general queue, I was able to gain access to the fast track, that is only available once you climbed the stairs.

Duty free pit stop:

Given the people downstairs, upstairs it is more than quiet:

skyview lounge

I was warmly greeted at the lounge and went straight to the terrace to spot a bit.
TK 737Max-8:

Corendon 737-800:

TK again:

Easy appron:

Express Fret:

Enter Air 738:

I went back inside to check the buffet:

Breads:

My morning selection:

CRJ900 LH Cityline:

Air Arabia A320:

BA A320:

My Embraer:

the flight

Heading back to my gate:

Seems that the problems at the controls are over now:

Boarding via jetbridge:

KLM and the nose of our plane:

At the door:

The plane is almost brand new, not even one year old:

Side view and safety card:

The pitch:

But the cleaning was not made …

The tray table had seen better days also:

I used the towelette to clean the mess

No seat mate, top!

We pushed back 10 minutes after schedule.

Taxi was fairly long:

Off we go:

The fret zone and the second runway:

Then Basle:

A general cabin view:

The post Covid service:

In flight:

And starting our descent with beautiful view over Orly in distance:

And Paris:

So beautiful:

U-Turn to head back to CDG:

Almost there:

And arrived!

We parked at terminal 2G, still closed at that time:

And had to wait for 10 minutes until someone came to bring the stairs.

Then we were bussed to 2F:

And took back my suitcase:

I had to wait 25' for it …

And went straight to the Sheraton, and was treated to a beautiful view over this A380: