Avis du vol Air France Pointe-à-Pitre → Port-au-Prince en classe Economique

Hi everybody,

This report deals with the first part of the flight AF606 (between Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe and Port-Au-Prince, Haïti). This flight is operated with an A320 "Carribean network".

After PAP and MIA, we have others flights (with AA) to go to Denver (our final destination), the routing:

21/03 - AF 606 PTP-PAP here you are
21/03 - AF 606 PAP-MIA here (french)
23/03 - AA 2586 MIA-DFW Here (french)
23/03 - AA 2356 DFW-DEN Here (french)
06/04 - AA 2342 DEN-MIA Here( french)
06/04 - AF 606 MIA-PAP Soon
06/04 - AF606 PAP-PTP Soon


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The two AF's A320 are based in Pointe-a-Pitre and do flights to Cayenne via Fort-de-France (Martinique) and to Miami via Port-au-Prince (this report). I decided to do the flight PTP-PAP-MIA in two parts.

Before you start, you have to know that my initial flight was Thursday, 22nd but AF and Air traffic control was on strike, and i have been moved on Wednesday 21st by FlyingBlue, it has been fast and easy.





My flight is previously expected at 4:35pm, I decided to be at the airport at 2pm, but the day before Air France send me an email to ask to be at the airport at 1pm . For me, it's impossible, I finish High school at half past twelve.



Finally I arrive at the airport and it's only 1:20pm, not bad.


I'm going to Terminal 2 to check-in.


I check the FIDS, and I see a little star "The recording of the flight AF606 is made at Terminal 1". Good, so I go to Terminal 1 and I discover that the tail for AF606 is the same that the queue for the flight AF793 to Paris Orly… Not really practical.

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After that, we have to come back to Terminal 2 to cross the police. I don't know the utility of doing that…

Some norwegian ads.


And airways counters oerating from T2


T2


The border Police



And after cross the Police at Terminal Two, we don't come back to Terminal 1 waiting room (as we do for Norwegian) we go to T2 waiting room !


With obviously ATR to Carribean islands

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Air Transat from YYZ or YUL in 737.



I rarely come in T2. The style is modern and colorful. Theer is a little Duty-free. The building is shaped like a round, with a beautiful architecture. Negative point, the room is too small for all passengers, there are flights to SJU, SFG, FDF, SXM, ANU, my flight to PAP and MIA, electrical outlets are missing. It should be noted that the Airport wi-fi access (furnished by Orange Guadeloupe) works very well.


In this wednesday afternoon, there are no many planes, but there are some..

Air Canada Rouge going to Montreal.


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Air France season flight from CDG (in normal time 2 Beoing 777 to Orly per day, in season it's 2 777 to orly and 1 A343 to CDG !).

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Air Caraibes from Orly with an A359

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I missed the XL Airways A332 from Marseille. XL Airways operated new connections from France : Lyons, Marseille, Toulouse, Lille, Brest and Nantes. Paris-CDG still operated.


At 4:30pm, the boarding begin, with usual "No-Photo" but I brave the laws and here are some pictures:

The plane is the same as for my flight ATL-PTP (here (french))

But nearby theer is the second plane with Paris Olympic Games livery from Atlanta to Cayenne.




And our plane to PAP and MIA.

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The terminal from outside. I find it very beautiful, it looks like the "Memorial ACTE" museum or the "MUCem" Museum at Marseille.

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Some fuselage shoots

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the pilots


The other A320 with XL 332 from MRS.



The pitch



the cup holder very usefull.




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Very usefull USB socket


We pushback at 4:45pm

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A343 Air France to CDG

The runaway

An Air Antilles Express ATR

A350 TX and 777 AF

738 Norwegian


about-face and take-off.

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View of the old South Terminal with Control Tower, and in background the town of Pointe-a-Pitre

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After that, we start to fly-over the "Grands-fonds" (inland), and we can see "Le Gosier" and "Sainte-Anne" cities.


The north of Grande-Terre


That's (sorry for quality and clouds) the channel where slaves landed at the time of the colonies (I remind that Guadeloupe was a french colony but not anymore. Now that's we what we call a "DROM" (in french Departement ou Région d'Outre-Mer" we can traduce it by "overseas department".


Some reading with safety card.

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A little text abouth PTP-ATL new connection.



Our engine with in background the island of Montserrat. We can easily see the marks of ash pours after volcano eruption in february 2010. The capital Plymouth has been totally ravaged and now nobody lives at Plymouth, but the city still the capital of the island. Actually, it's the only uninhabited capital in the wolrd.

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Caiman Lake

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We cross 10000 feats, mountains are lower, we begin to see Port-Au-Prince outskirts. Port-Au-Prince is a very big city (1million inhabitants) very extended, but very poor.

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We continue our descent, but we are higher than usual. Few seconds after I see it, the cockpit announces "Cabin crew, go around". I was not the only one to have seen it, luckily pilots saw it.
The plane goes back, this allows to take beautiful pictures.

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Touchdown at 6:50pm.

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Sun from land


the tarmac with AA and the local company Sunrise.


American to Miami too


Sunrise


we then go down to the transit room, so that the Americans can inspect the plane before being in Miami. We are given a little paper for the transit




Flight Radar 24

Itinary


the go around



Thanks you for reading, stay tuned for the following fligths to Miami (then Denver) (fligths already available in French) !
Louri.

I'm sorry for potiental mistakes of English.