airline wine lists?

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maureen

maureen nelson
who knows where I can discover the wines being poured on Air France's Airbus 380e from DCA to CDG, business class? Google hasn't been my friend.
 
Scott, those are just pix. No information on what is served to who, or when.

Maureen, it appears that the AF somm changes the wine list every two months. I could not find access on any AF site but I have found two bits of partial info:

1. An industry review from Aug 2010. The exact wines won't be served, probably, but it would give you an idea of where their heads are.

2. AF's online shopping claims that the wines they sell are the wines they use onboard. Again, who knows how often this is updated.

Jeff
 
thanks

now if you can help me figure out if there's a train from lyon to beaune between the 8:15 am and 12:15 pm I'm finding on raileurope... One website I find claims there's tgv almost every hour but I can't get confirmation of that. then one website says warning - there are three train stations in lyon - but then offers no more info about them.
 
you need to decide where you want to catch the train. St. Exupery is at the airport, Part-Dieu is in the center of town.
 
originally posted by maureen:
thanks

now if you can help me figure out if there's a train from lyon to beaune between the 8:15 am and 12:15 pm I'm finding on raileurope...
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You're welcome.

It does appear that there are three stations in Lyon ville: Perrache, Part Dieu, and Saint Paul. The fourth station, the one that serves TGV, is near the airport.

I cannot find one master list of trains. SNCF is a rats' nest of websites, due to their complicated internal self-interests (explain).

The TER Bourgogne list, apparently some kind of local SNCF subsidiary, shows a train nearly every hour (click here and choose the horaire for DIJON-LYON). These are what I would call 'milk trains', as they have lots of stops, and I'm sure they're not as elegant as TGV or TEOZ. But they're probably as good as any French trains.

Good luck.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
No, for real, as noted above, voyages-sncf.com is the overall train site.
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Yes, I looked at it. A basic search gives nothing more than what Maureen already had. If you telechargez an horaires personalises then you can see more trains, though it obligates you to give a return-trip, even if you don't want one.
 
Oh, interesting. Sorry for insisting; the voyages-sncf.com site purports to regroup all train info, including regional doohickeys, so it seemed extraneous to go through other sites, but clearly you have found more possibilities!
 
TGV will take you into the city or to the airport (but not both) - depending on which actual train you are riding on. Conversely (in the other sens), you may catch a TGV at Part Dieu or you may catch one at the airport, but you may not catch the same actual train in both places to my knowledge.

Which is another way of saying that they are not on the same track - I guess.

on edit: this would appear to be the same sort of diversion that one encounters in French websites. A friend to many of us had the unfortunate experience of arriving (via TGV and bus)in Bourg-St-Maurice instead of Part Dieu, while his ride (me) was at Part Dieu waiting for him. Although it was January, he was carrying empty styrofoam shippers, not skis. Quel dommage!
 
originally posted by Scott Kraft:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Scott, those are just pix. No information on what is served to who, or when.

Jeff
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Not so. The view info tells you what class they are served in.
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You're quite right. Missed it because it was stuffed in with all the EXIF data they provide(???).
 
They may have moved on from the wines listed in the media kit. Digging through FlyerTalk, it looks like the menu might still be similar to this one from an Oct 2010 Affaires (business class) A380 flight:

Champagne: Lanson Black Label Brut
Bourgogne Blanc: Rully 2006 ou 2007 Joseph Drouhin
Languedoc rouge: Ch“teau L’hospitalet la reserve 2007 Gérard Bertrand
Bordeaux rouge: Haut-Médoc Ch“teau de Villambis 2006 ou 2007 Cru Bourgeois

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www.flyertalk.com

Here are photos the CDG-IAD menu (lunch and light snack in that direction) but no pictures of the wine list:

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see, this is what I'm talking about - the train info is complicated beyond belief - and this from a person who makes her living interpreting the Internal Revenue Code (and some of the most difficult sections, at that!). I finally called the phone number given and the woman told me that since I couldn't make the 8:15 am, I was stuck waiting until after noon to get a train to either dijon or beaune (and of course I have to go thru dijon to get to beaune so I'm getting off in dijon).

sharon, thanks for the link but as I speak next to no french, I feel incapable of navigating it.
 
originally posted by maureen:

sharon, thanks for the link but as I speak next to no french, I feel incapable of navigating it.
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If you scroll to the bottom of the page they have flags to bring up versions of the site in 8 different languages.

Not sure if the English version is as complete as the French, I think that used to be an issue on some of these sites. But perhaps they've fixed that by now.
 
originally posted by maureen:
thanks

now if you can help me figure out if there's a train from lyon to beaune between the 8:15 am and 12:15 pm I'm finding on raileurope... One website I find claims there's tgv almost every hour but I can't get confirmation of that. then one website says warning - there are three train stations in lyon - but then offers no more info about them.
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TER 17614

9:22AM
Lyon Part Dieu,
France
14 Jul

11:04AM
Beaune,
France
14 Jul

$37 in economy or $56 in Comfort class
Seems like your best bet
 
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