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Joel Spolsky writes:

I just got back from a trip to Israel, having, in a fit of stupidity, decided that it wouldn’t be such a bad thing to take Air France and change planes at CDG. Nothing surprises the ground crew at CDG more than the arrival of the daily, scheduled flight from Kennedy. Every single thing about that airport is broken and it’s the worst place in the world to change planes.

That’s exactly the same feeling I had about Charles De Gaulle when I was visiting the US on a study trip back in March 2005. We arrived in CDG and nothing was normal. Waiting to board was done in half circles around a desk, there was no information what-so-ever and people were just standing around in big groups hoping that they were in the right place for their plane. It was completely like standing in a market some where with merchants screaming all over the place, and nobody knowing what’s going on.
Why does this strike me as typically French?

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