Review of Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta to Paris in Business

• BSL - AMS KL J / E190: HERE
• AMS - YYC KL J / A330-200: HERE
• YYC - YXY 4N Y / B737-500: HERE
• YXY - YDA 4N Y / HS 748: HERE
• YDA - YXY 4N Y / HS 748: HERE
• YXY - YVR 4N Y / B737-500: HERE
• YVR - LAS AC J / A319: HERE
• LAS - ATL DL F / B737-900ER : HERE
• ATL - CDG DL J / B767-300ER : Now
• CDG - BSL AF Y / BAe146-300: Won't be published.

That's a nice architectural thing:

My plane, sorry, could not take it any better:

I would have had enough time to go to the lounge to indulge myself to raw vegetable, industrial cheese and packaged houmous. I could have waited at the bar to get a free alcoolic drink against a good tip, but I decided to stay near the gate area. As the wifi free of charge is, that's a good place to wait.
Roughly 15 minutes after I arrived at the gate, boarding is launched with the usual Delta sequence (see my former flight report if you don't know ^^)
Perfect and very charming welcome from the purser that will wish a merry christmas to everyone and asks everyone how they are doing.
That's the 763 cabin:

Need some rest!!

The menu, that has been handed over during boarding (and not forgoten like KLM ^^):

The entree order is taken by our purser, and as usual starting with 01A. Her nickanme is O and she will introduce herself like that. She'll ask each passenger with a smile and a very carrying attitude.
O was by far the best purser I ever had on all my flight. A pearl. I asked her for a second pillow that I received 15 seconds after my query. All her sentences were ended by a don't hesitate to let me know if you need anything else. I had a long chat with her during the flight and promised to send a positive feedback for her and her crew.
PDB + Safety Card:

Leg room:

New addition to the well known amenities:

Then, something I have never seen before, the captain comes into the business cabin, stops at the first row and begins a speech to thank us for flying Delta, then the flight route, flight conditions and wishes us a lovely festive season. Every one in business applauded at the end. That was a really nice touch.
On time push back and #01 for take off:

Hot towels before the start of the service

Sauternes for aperitive (what else!). The crackers were to die for:

Assorted started, while not Haute Gastronomie, were all tasty and good:

For the entree, I took the beef, not really for the beef, but for the kale, a product that I love, and that you don't find in France for the time being. The celeri remoulade was cold, and the contrast between hot and cold was surprisingly good!

The dessert was very good as well:

Then I caught on some sleep as I really needed it. I asked O to wake me up as late as possible, no breakfast for me, but just orange juice and coffee. She did so approximately 30 minutes before arrival.

Very soft landing in Paris and a bit of spotting:

Very easy connection to the 2G where I'll find out that the flight to BSL STD 01:30 was pushed back to 03:50p and that mine, scheduled at 03:55p was to be operated with a BAe 146-300 ops by WDL, an airline that AF subcharters quite often to counter HOP!Airlinair's ATR never ending AOG's.
I won't report that flight, but a thing that made me smile: the 01:30 flight eventually left at 03:50p with an ATR72, while mine took of at 03:55p. We landed in BSL at 05:00p while the ATR flight landed at 05:15p :)
Seems that AF finally learnt from its lessons, and will put the CRK back to ORY on all but one flight. And the E170 back to CDG, for all flights…
If you'd like to know how a WDL BAe 146-300 looks like, you can check it here:
>>> WDL Aviation…
Last but not least, one of my suitcase that I specially bought in LAS as an unbreakable, high quality, very well known brand, came out without a weal, wires looking out on one side, all side protections destroyed. After an animated talk at the AF lost and found, I was evntually allowed to buy a new one and to have it reimbursed.