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Air Foulup, the French national carrier, arranged the following transfer for us:
a - touch down at CdG;
b - get bus to Terminal E;
c - go through Passport Control;
d - walk to Terminal D (a considerable distance, in fact so far that if you are going from D to E, you have to catch a bus that takes 8 minutes);
e - go through Security again;
f - find gate at far end of terminal and down some stairs; and
g - get bus back to plane.
All of this to be done in 45 minutes and you end up on the plane you left on the bus. In our case, the plane was 20 minutes late arriving, my GLW wanted to go to the loo and it was the first Friday in August when all of Paris gets out of the city as fast as possible.
Results:
a - missed plane;
b - 45 minutes to register a complaint;
c - complementary meal (which I could not be complementary about) from Air Foulup;
d - free night in hotel that looks like Cell Block B&B;
e - 20E to get back to terminal in morning;
f - 70E charge for being a no show at Hertz;
g - 140E charge for hotel room not used in Beaulieu;
h - car rental goes up for smaller car from Hertz.
AF and CdG off my Xmas card list.
And the journey back was as bad. End of rant.
a - touch down at CdG;
b - get bus to Terminal E;
c - go through Passport Control;
d - walk to Terminal D (a considerable distance, in fact so far that if you are going from D to E, you have to catch a bus that takes 8 minutes);
e - go through Security again;
f - find gate at far end of terminal and down some stairs; and
g - get bus back to plane.
All of this to be done in 45 minutes and you end up on the plane you left on the bus. In our case, the plane was 20 minutes late arriving, my GLW wanted to go to the loo and it was the first Friday in August when all of Paris gets out of the city as fast as possible.
Results:
a - missed plane;
b - 45 minutes to register a complaint;
c - complementary meal (which I could not be complementary about) from Air Foulup;
d - free night in hotel that looks like Cell Block B&B;
e - 20E to get back to terminal in morning;
f - 70E charge for being a no show at Hertz;
g - 140E charge for hotel room not used in Beaulieu;
h - car rental goes up for smaller car from Hertz.
AF and CdG off my Xmas card list.
And the journey back was as bad. End of rant.
) supposed to leave at 16:55. Arrive at Ben Gurion at 13:20 due to the incredible amount of checking that needs to be done. Find out that LH is 4hrs late. Plane not arriving until 6pm. Eventually leave Tel Aviv at 20:30. Arrive in Frankfurt at 23:00, just in time for me to get the LAST shuttle bus to hotel I had booked.
, I am still without my toolbox as I write this and the latest is that maybe it will arrive in Seville tomorrow, maybe! :shrug:
that's more like it! 