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As Patrick mentioned not too many people complained about Paris but I will. North American arrivals and departures plane and enplane on a jet bridge from a 747-400. You are shuttled around on a confusing combination of buses and corridors until you are spit out at the end. My fiance and I arrived 3 hours before departure. There are 5 Air France terminals and the cabbie was literally pissed off that I didn't know which one I was supposed go to. We arrived at our depature lounge 2 1/2 hours after we began. Carry on baggage was checked three times and it was clear the last search was more as punishment for either being subjects of Bush43 or simply a make work program for the French. Our boarding pass/passports were verified no less than 9 times after we cleared security. Yes we had been in France and Paris but one would hope that a country with that much art and culture could do a better job at their international airport than that.
