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Old 06-01-2009, 04:21 PM  
Sarah_Jayne
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Originally Posted by Deej View Post
Damn, thats a melting pot for sure...
Air France is a big gateway airline for a lot of places around the world. So, as this was a flight to Paris, there would be a lot of people making connections.

If you ever want to see the remnants of the old European empires, look at the the routes of their national airlines. That particuarly goes for roots into various parts of Africa and South America. When I was a travel agent, there are places you can only get people into on Air France because they are former French colonies, some you can only get them into via British Airways because they were part of the the British empire, etc. The one I bet most wouldn't think of is Belgium. Their former national airline, Sabena, was great for getting people into 'weird' places in Africa that nobody else went. They only went because they used to be Belgian colonies.
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