Air France A220 gets Euro Biz RIGHT (Paris to Stockholm)
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- Join me as I wrap up my recent US trip with a very lovely flight onboard Air France’s A220 in Euro-business class. I’m pretty sure I’ve found the best possible version of Euro Biz out there (that’s economy seats with the middle blocked and an elevated soft product, standard across Europe.) Is this indeed the best Euro Biz out there, and what makes it so? I’ll show you the lounge at Paris CDG, boarding, taxi and takeoff, the light meal and champagne service, and give you the complete rundown. Cap it off with a pretty landing back in Sweden in the dying October light.
Note: yes, Turkish Airlines mostly has a much better seat on regional flights and is technically based in Europe, but you can’t really fly around Europe with Turkish without going well out of your way, so they’re excluded from this comparison 🙂.
Flight information:
October 25, 2023
AF1062 CDG-ARN
A220-300 F-HZUQ
Seat 2A
age: brand new
Flight time: 2h5m
How I booked it:
I bought a paid ticket outbound in KLM “Premium Comfort” Premium Economy and returning in Delta One business class via CDG for $1,800. Routing: ARN-AMS-SFO / LAX-CDG-ARN.
Watch the KLM Premium Economy AMS-SFO review: • Putting KLM’s new Prem...
Watch the Delta One LAX-CDG review: • The perfect transatlan...
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Shot on: Sony FX3 & iPhone 15 Pro Max
Music: Epidemic Sound
Shot, written and edited by Gabriel Leigh, a.k.a. Gabe Leigh.
SECTIONS:
00:00 Intro
00:35 Who is Gabe Leigh?
01:00 AF lounge CDG 2F
02:05 I love the A220
02:50 Taxi
03:25 Takeoff
05:00 Onboard experience
05:47 Why AF A220 beats others
06:30 Sunset descent to Stockholm
07:37 Landing
08:35 Final thoughts
#airfrance #A220 #businessclass
Fantastic video as always, your commitment to excellent production quality doesn’t go unnoticed. I think you have the exact right balance of great visuals and narration, while also making the videos both informative but also relaxing to watch.
Thank you so much, it means a lot to hear that!
Love the A220!
Great review Gabe. So proud to be Canadian and see how popular Bombardier's plane is. Air France has been getting quite a few solid reviews, my last flight with them to Nice was one of the most peaceful flights I've ever had, very different to pax behaviour in N. America...
Thanks a lot!
Air France A220 is so quiet and confortable and the Air France BC is high quality.
Swiss is lovely too. But you very much right, can see Air France great indeed
Thanks for watching!
Hy gabe you are my Favorite Video Autor. Thanks. Kai
Thank you Kai!
Amazing video!
Thank you!
Always look forward to your vlogs Gab, keep up the good work?
Great to hear, thank you!
Great videos Gabe. The zoom on that new iPhone is pretty epic. I don’t think I’ve flown the A220 recently-not sure if that is a product of flying Star Alliance or just chance. Anyways, this Sky Team set of videos has piqued my interest. Cheers! Btw, how often do you get asked by passengers or flight crew why you have a GoPro stuck to the window?
Almost never! Funny right? Thanks a lot and I’m glad you enjoyed them.
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Gabe Fly with Cypres Airways Then you get a Business class experience
Good idea, will add it to the list!
Really nice video! Keep it up. E-2 jet vs A220? Waiting for my time to fly an A220 but I love the comfort of an embraer
Thanks!
I was wondering Gabe if you speak any other languages besides then English? I'm just curious, Swedish? French? Also, awesome video and just discovered this channel and wish I had found it sooner.
Hi! And yeah I speak (to varying degrees) Swedish, French, Spanish, Japanese. A few phrases of Arabic 😄. Really glad you found the channel!
Very nice video Gabe, did I see Wifi onboard? Is there IFE on any of the European carriers?
I made a number of flights across Europe, mainly with KLM, Lufthansa, Swiss. They do not have IFE on their short and medium haul fleet with flight duration typically around 2 hours.
Thanks! Yes there was Wifi. Generally no IFE on the intra-Euros. Once in a while you get it via the Wifi on your own device.
The A220-300 is a unique aircraft with a long list of special flight capabilities. It can do 7-hour transcontinental flights, it's a very powerful aircraft that can jump from airports with shorter runways, and has incredible operating economics to create "point-to-point thin route" markets that would be unprofitable if operated by other aircraft. Air France is publicly egging on Airbus to build the A220-500 to replace the A320neo (le Journal de l'Aviation), but Airbus is currently prioritizing production ramp-up (at 10 to 11 aircraft per month as of Jan. 2024).
Yep it’s such a capable machine!
I have always liked the quality of Air France in flight service as long as the FAs are in a decent mood. Great video. Some of the edits of your vocals are a bit quick/truncated which is a little off putting. Otherwise fantastic quality video. Thank you!
Thanks for the comment and I will take that into account! (And yeah it's true, as long as the FAs are in a good mood it's usually such great service, but not guaranteed)
Nice video. I only flew on the A220-100 RT between SEA and SJC on DL in FC. The aircraft was nice but the service was really bad.
Ah that's too bad! I had a nice flight on the DL A220.
The A220 on AF is a very good hard product, for European standards at least. However the food is mediocre, imho. Especially on longer routes - like ATH - that exact same meal is served and that is insufficient in C. A single cold snack, even though usually of pretty good quality, is insufficient when you're 3,5 hours in the air. Their main competitor on the route, Aegean, does a full 3-course hot meal, and even LH group recognises the imbalance and offers hot food when travelling to ATH. Though LH of course only does this on routes where they have competition from an airline that also serves hot food (They absolutely offer the least that they can get away with).
Yeah that is an interesting point. There are airlines that only offer what they absolutely have to in order to compete, and then there are those who go above and beyond. Sadly I think mostly European customers have shown all they care about is price! Hence the race to the bottom in most cases. Clearly I need to try Aegean!
How does the a220 compare to the e2 (e295) in window size and in passenger comfort and how does the window compare to the a350
You can check out my video on the E2 and see what you think (czcams.com/video/BltnLIevZ7o/video.html). I'd say the A220 wins over E2 for passenger comfort because of being a bit roomier, but it's close, and the windows are quite a bit bigger than on the E2 (and there are more of them, the E2 has that long spacing between windows). A220 windows are quite a bit larger than A350 windows too!
@@airedition Thank you! What about cabin noise If I may ask
Quite similar I would say!
@@airedition thanks for your opinion! I really appreciate it!
What a contrast with the ever unreliable and Best Avoided BA, who have densified and cut to be as bad as lo costs
Yes!
NB they're not actually British, being the UK brand of a Madrid registered multinational, just harvesting cash from inherited slot dominance and historic brand
Hi Gabe from an Aussie viewer. Australia is now home to one of the worst airlines. Qantas (#42). So polically biased, so woke, so virtually signaling it makes a lot of travellers ill. Thank goodness for choice.
That's too bad if Qantas has gone downhill! I have fond memories of them from years back!