PARIS - L. A.
Recently year, Air France threw a party to celebrate the 50th year anniversary of its regular line between Paris and L.A.
The food was good ( France oblige) and models clad as flying attendant mingled among the guests in vintage uniforms ( Balenciaga, Cardin)
This new connection between the continents made LA a little bit closer to Europe: a record of 13 hours and a half of flying time after a necessary stop over in Montreal for re-fueling.
Today, the same flight is shorten by two hours for the same route, not because the aircraft is faster, but only because there is no fueling stop. Recently year, Air France threw a party to celebrate the 50th year anniversary of its regular line between Paris and L.A.
The food was good ( France oblige) and models clad as flying attendant mingled among the guests in vintage uniforms ( Balenciaga, Cardin)
This new connection between the continents made LA a little bit closer to Europe: a record of 13 hours and a half of flying time after a necessary stop over in Montreal for re-fueling.
If you think it is a long flight, be thankful to live in the jet age !
In 1860, the only option was to sail from coastal France to California. Allowing, in the best case , between 3 and 4 months, sometimes more.
Fifty years later, in 1910, the traveler had to spend almost two whole weeks to reach Los Angeles spending 5 days at sea and 5 days on the transcontinental railroad with a change in Chicago
From 6 months to a week then to 13 hours, big steps every 50 years.
