Review Air France, Business Class Zurich to Paris CDG

Paul‘s Flight Report
Air France
Operated by airBaltic
Flight: AF1815
ZRH - CDG / Airbus A220-300
Flight Time: 1 hour
Business Class

General Impression: 🐑🐑🐑🐑

Before the Flight :
Check-in Process: 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
Staff @ C/I: 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🥇🏆
Security Control : 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Lounge: 🐑🐑🐑
Information: 🐑🐑🐑
Boarding @ Gate: 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Staff @ these points: 🐑🐑🐑🌿
Boarding in Cabin: 🐑🐑🐑
Welcome Drinks: 🐑, no welcome drink
Punctuality: 🐑🐑🐑🐑 on time
During the Flight :
Food presentation: 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Food quality: 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Drinks: 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Service Procedure: 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Amenity Kit: N/A shorthaul
Entertainment System: 🐑 no system
Seat Quality: 🐑🐑🐑
Legroom: 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Lavatories: 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Cleanliness: 🐑🐑🐑🐑
General Atmosphere: 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Announcement Pilots: 🐑🐑🐑
Announcement Cabin: 🐑🐑🐑
Cabin Crew: 🐑🐑🐑🐑
After the Flight :
De-Boarding: 🐑🐑🐑
Baggage Delivery: In Transit
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🐑 = bad, a lot of work needs to be done
🐑🐑 = poor, you will be busy with corrections
🐑🐑🐑 = good & normal, nothing special
🐑🐑🐑🐑 = high level, but the icing on the cake is missing
🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 = topnotch, leave me here!
🌿= Half a Point/sheep
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Spoiler: doesn't matter nowadays which airline you book, you are sitting in an Air Baltic plane.

On the Ground:
As we had to rebook our flight die to a 3 hour delay of Lufthansa (Frusthansa) we were at the airport 4,5 hours prior departure at the airport.
The agent was simply amazing and super friendly. They helped us tremendously with the rebooking. They were attentive, helpful and talked us through the process until they could find the booking.
The first time we went through the security check around noon for our Lufthansa flight, they security screening was top. Fast, very friendly and talkative. None of the bag went to second screening.
The second time we went through, the Security Check for the Air France flight, the security check was a disaster.
Unfriendly, grumpy staff and funny wise all, but really all bags went to second screening even nothing changed.
SkyTeam has no own lounge in Zurich and Air France has contracted the Marhaba Lounge in Zurich.
Marhaba is the smallest lounge at the airport and during our time the lounge was super busy. People were queuing until outside and we could see people drinking and eating standing around in the lounge. So we decided to use the aspire lounge next door with our priority pass.
Staff at the gate was again super friendly and helpful.
Priority boarding was conducted and boarding was done by zone numbers.
At the aircraft door we were greeted by the senior cabin crew member and another crew member.
Once everyone was on board, refreshing towels were distributed.
Inflight:
The seats are comfortable and have a good legroom. The regular European Business Class with a 2/3 seating configuration where the middle seats remains empty on the side with 3 seats and only one seat on the side with 2 seats is given out.

Announcement from the cabin and flight crew were good and understandable.

After take off, a cold snack was served. The meal was very delicious and the food presentation looked good.
The tray consisted of a cold snack, fresh cheese, a dessert as well as bread and butter.

The cabin was fully booked but the crew wasn't stressed at all. They were super friendly, attentive and performed a great inflight service.

The Air Baltic Airbus 220 has no inflight entertainment system, just the small screens above every seat row where the map is shown.
No WiFi.

After the flight:
Transiting in Paris CDG wasn't a big issue as we arrived from Zürich, we didn't have to go through security again but to pass emigration as we left the Schengen area.

Summary:
All in all a good flight with Air France operated by Air Baltic.
I found the Baltic crew more pleasant than they usually are on Swiss flights
A nice crew with a great inflight service on board a new aircraft.
Based on this flight we can recommend Air France for future travels.
Notes:
- Paul the Sheep does not get any benefits from the Hotels/Airlines etc.
- Paul will always pay for the services in order to be able to rate freely and truly about the experiences.
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