Review of Aer Lingus flight from Paris to Dublin in Economy

Hi everybody, welcome on my first FR in English!
Why in English? Because I was there to study it, so it's a good idea to practice it writing this report. To join Dublin, there are four Airlines: Aer Lingus (CDG), Cityjet (CDG), Transavia (ORY) and Ryanair (BVA). Transavia was the cheapest, but the outbound flight land at 19h20, too late. But it's ok for the return flight. Ryanair was also a good option, but Beauvais Airport is very far from Paris. Aer Lingus was less expensive than Cityjet, with five daily flights.
To join CDG Airport, I chose the Roissybus, a bus between Opera and CDG Airport. The ticket costs 11€, but it's free during holidays for students with the Navigo Imagine R Card.

Only 30 minutes after, I was at Terminal 1. Traffic was very good this Sunday morning on the motorway.

The bus stop was just near the Aer Lingus check in.

At Paris, there is no Aer Lingus staff but it's Swissport's staff.

My baggage weighed 21.1 kg and no 20.0kg, so I had to pay 10€!! For just 1 kg is unacceptable. Aer Lingus is a low cost company, like Ryanair… But their prices are not low cost!! I was very angry.

Now, I have to go to the Border Police and the PIF. CDG 1 is a very old terminal, with six different boarding zones.

There was not any queue at the Border Police

Few luxury shops

And the access to my boarding zone.

This boarding zone is comfortable, but there is not any shop.

Fortunately, I was just in front of the two runways of CDG. Spotting time!

A318 Air France

A310-300 Air Transat

A321 Air France

B757-200 Delta Airlines

A320 Brussels Airlines to… Brussels!

A320 Vueling Airlines

A319 Air France

A380 Air France

A330-300 American Airlines (ex US Airways)

A310-300 Air Transat

B777-200ER Air France

B757-200 American Airlines

A321 Turkish Airlines

A330-200 SriLankan

A318 Air France

A330-300 Delta Airlines

A380 Emirates

A320 Lufthansa with a Star Alliance livery

B777-200 United Airlines

B737-300 Air Baltic

B757-200 La Compagnie from New-York

An Air France 747-400 is landing!

F-GITJ, Air France 747's fleet will be retired in March 2015…

EMB190 Helvetic Airways

Another A380 of Air France

B777-300ER Air Canada

A330-200 Air Transat

A321 Finnair

And my aircraft from Dublin, an A320

Boarding will shortly start on Gate 37.

Boarding started on time. My A320, EI-DEF, 8 years old.

The crew was very unfriendly. Nobody was here to welcome the passengers, they were talking in the galley. I said Hello to the CCP, and nobody answered me! My seat, the 26F.

B737-300 Europe Airpost, a charter flight.

1h20 of flight, and an arrival early said the captain.

B777-200 United Airlines and A380 Thai.

The Concorde

A340-300 Kuwait Airways to Kuwait City via Roma

B737-500 Air Méditerranée

EMB190 Hop!

And take off at 10h25.

Flight was full and also very cloudy

A last view of France before crossing the Channel

The cabin, with a good pitch.

Winglet

In Aer Lingus Flight's, there is no catering. You have to pay everything, like Ryanair or Easyjet which are low cost companies. But Aer Lingus doesn't say that she is a low-cost airline! Furthermore, the cabin crew was terrible. No smile, there were in the aircraft just to sell BOB and Duty Free.

We are now flying above the UK

Descent started at 11h21.
Porthmadog in the UK

Irish Sea

Clouds again…

Howth

Malahide

And landing at 10h46

B737-800 Blue Air

B737-800 Ryanair

A320 Aer Lingus

A330-200 Aer Lingus

We arrived at 11h01, 4 minutes early.

Nobody was here to say Goodbye at the passengers!

My plane

The queue was very short at the border police, but it took ten minutes for the baggage claim.

To go to Dublin, I took the bus 747 for 6€ and 30 minutes. Comfort was very good with a free wifi connection.

And finally I took the DART at Connolly Station to Bray, 25 km at the South of Dublin.

Thank you for reading this FR and I hope that my English was easy to understand!