Et toujours Beyrouth dans les villes desservies sur les stopovers... ma belle ville... la guerre l’a meurtrie. Du 4ème pays le plus prospère au monde à 2 ème pays le plus endetté. Compatriotes français, comprennez la douleur de ma deuxième patrie. Nous souhaitons juste que la terreur politique cesse, afin que nous puissions enfin élire des représentants indépendants... Merci Air France pour cette vidéo toujours aussi inspirante.
Lovely, the older ones of us all remember flights that stopped en route at intermediate airports. Sometimes you got off and were handed a plastic covered re-boarding pass which ensured that ongoing passengers could board before the "new" ones. And the flying boats from UK to South Africa! We sometimes forget that airfares in those days were very expensive indeed, long distance flying was not an option for ordinary people going on vacation.
Lovely video, from the days when air travel still had a sense of adventure and romance about it, before the sterile world of jets. I have great memories of UTA flight on a DC-10 from Sydney-Noumea-Papeete in the late 1970's then Air Polynesie on Fokker Friendships to Managreva (Ilde de Gambier). Those were the days! Merci beaucoup pour les video de excellence...
6:03 is not Tehran in any form. It's Isfahan's Naqsh-e Jahan Square. 6:09 is Perspolis which is like 1000 km away from Tehran. The ayatollah went to Iran on board an Air France plane. So shame on you Air France.
I had a great AF flight from Nice to Teheran (stop in Beyrouth) in about 1975 on a 747. Unfortunately it was right when the Lebanon civil war started (I saw parts of the city on fire) so we could not get off the plane in Beyrouth. Otherwise it was a good experience.
Yes. I recall in 1978 flew from CDG to HKG on an AF 747-200 routed CDG-NCE-TLV-THR-DEL-BKK-HKG. Just imagine that route via stops in both TLV and THR being flown today!
in my youth I travelled a lot with the DC8 on long haul flights, also to and from the middle east by KLM/AF; got the idea the nowadays they fly slower then in the 70's... can somebody explain?
Newer planes use turbofan engines compared to the turbojet engines of old. Turbojets can reach higher speeds but turbofans are more efficient and ironically more powerful on account of their size, but slower.
Je m'attendais a la fameuse video de 1979 avec Khomeini descendant du 747 mais AF fait du politiquement correct alors que c'est peut etre le grand tournant de l'histoire de cette ligne.
Air France can very well set up their base in India in Gujarat at Surat west coast of India. From their they can operate via Gujarat from Surat First stop to any international destination, Maximum they will get US, Europe, Canada and Australia. OR They can operate From Surat to direct domestic first stop to in line International second stop. Hope This message could at least reach to Air France Planning and Operations management.
No chance. The market is still small to the point AF couldn't make a profit out of it. If there is a city in India that AF should served it should be Pondicherry as it was a favorite destination for French citizens, not Gujarat
What?! LMAO AHAHAH first of all it has nothing to do with this video, and why would a french airline company want a hub in india?!?! Also, it's a tiny city that nobody wants to go to so no direct flights will not be there, it doesn't make any sense. and I don't think Air France company will even look at an insignificant youtube comment like yours...
Fantástica evolução! Mas triste como é perceptível a involução do conforto oferecido aos passageiros: menor espaço e poltronas que mais se parecem como tábuas forradas por tecidos.
On ne voit pas grand chose de spécifique à l'Iran ou Téhéran. Honnêtement, les images d'archives pourraient être à propos de n'importe quelle destination...🤔
Fascinating to see how flying developed, and Air France always seemed to conduct service with a touch of elegance. Maintain this, please, and do not join the downward spiral so many airlines seem engaged in.
Uh, what a wonderful time it was before Islam destroyed Iran again. I was a kid in Tehran back then and I clearly remember Air France’s office in Tehran. Unfortunately the same airline brought Khomeini to my country, shame.
Aviation tourism will cease to exist by 2030. Anyone who has the money and wants to travel for long trips will do so by train or ship after 2030. This is the end of the oil abundance that is needed to keep society as we know it running. But the collapse is already being felt in 2022, but few have the knowledge to perceive it, in 2025 some will wake up, in 2030 anyone will know why the world economic situation is in darkness. It is the end of abundant and cheap energy from hydrocarbons, oil, gas and coal. ,.........................,,.,,.
YES they let people smoke. Passengers were happy and relaxed in those days, not silent and tense like today. The cabin was not stinky or smoky as in those days aircraft cabins were properly ventilated as this was before the airlines decided to cut costs by using recycled rather than fresh air ventilation. For those who travelled in First Class, the cigarettes were free.
I used to smoke on the American Airlines flight from Panama City, Panama back to Miami in the 90s. Since plane originated outside the US, smoking was allowed.
@@semsemeini7905 Not exactly. It varied from airline to airline, but the no smoking sign was usually turned off before the fasten seat belt sign was turned off and the fasten seat belt sign for the decent was usually turned on well before the non-smoking sign. You know that chime sound often heard shortly after take off, which is the crew release. That is the moment when most airlines would turn off the non-smoking sign. One airline that comes to mind as allowing smoking from the very first possible opportunity was the Danish airline Maersk Air who used to turn off the no smoking sign almost the very second the aircraft wheels left the runway. Smoking was of course prohibited during take off, landing and while the aircraft was on the ground.
Swissair distributed complimentary Cuban cigars to first class passengers on their trans Atlantic routes after the main dining service. There was very little odour and most people, even nonsmokers, did not mind the very small traces of smoke, the cabin air was very agreeable. Those days of luxury and civility are gone forever.
C Claire, je suis trop jeune mais mon pere me raconte que quand il prennait l'avion plus jeune, les gens fumaient, et comme CT un endroit fermer, CT affreux mdr
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In 1979, Khomeini landed in Tehran on a Air France 747
What a beautiful and well photographed video! One of the best I have seen documenting history of an airline! The music accompaniment is also perfect!
This is very interesting and informative
Great video
interesting: long ago the DC8 flight was just 4 hours and now its more then 5! what happened?
More aircraft and traffic, plus some countries are not avoided when flying over.
Cost of fuel went up… better go a bit slower and burn less fuel.
Hahaha good question
@@Sfaobonns another good point
Fuel economy
Beautiful videos though i guess iranian people will never forget that you also flew khomeini in with a b747 😔
Is it only me, or the Air France former logo of winged seahorse resembles a lot with Iran Air's Homa bird?
It does indeed, now that you mention it.
It's similar
@@jetaddicted It always did lmao
Et toujours Beyrouth dans les villes desservies sur les stopovers... ma belle ville... la guerre l’a meurtrie. Du 4ème pays le plus prospère au monde à 2 ème pays le plus endetté. Compatriotes français, comprennez la douleur de ma deuxième patrie. Nous souhaitons juste que la terreur politique cesse, afin que nous puissions enfin élire des représentants indépendants...
Merci Air France pour cette vidéo toujours aussi inspirante.
Joli message courage à vous
😔
Courage, les frangins du proche Orient, on vous aime 😘🇱🇧🇫🇷
Lovely, the older ones of us all remember flights that stopped en route at intermediate airports. Sometimes you got off and were handed a plastic covered re-boarding pass which ensured that ongoing passengers could board before the "new" ones. And the flying boats from UK to South Africa!
We sometimes forget that airfares in those days were very expensive indeed, long distance flying was not an option for ordinary people going on vacation.
Simply superb.. thanks for sharing.. !!
😊
@@airfrancefr When the DC-3 Air France retired?
Lovely video, from the days when air travel still had a sense of adventure and romance about it, before the sterile world of jets. I have great memories of UTA flight on a DC-10 from Sydney-Noumea-Papeete in the late 1970's then Air Polynesie on Fokker Friendships to Managreva (Ilde de Gambier). Those were the days! Merci beaucoup pour les video de excellence...
Maravilhoso! A Air France é uma instituição! Tive a alegria de voar com a Air France do Rio de Janeiro GIG à Paris CDG. Tudo perfeito.
More of this please! Good job!
Fascinating !
Beautiful video
The monuments shown are not in Tehran.
Ça fait toujours rêver le voyage en avion: j' adore.
Merci! :-)
6:03 is not Tehran in any form. It's Isfahan's Naqsh-e Jahan Square. 6:09 is Perspolis which is like 1000 km away from Tehran.
The ayatollah went to Iran on board an Air France plane. So shame on you Air France.
To Teherán, to see Khomeini
Il manque une sequence historique... en 1979... si vous voyez ce à quoi je fais allusion.
eh oui...
1980 oops 😳😳
I had a great AF flight from Nice to Teheran (stop in Beyrouth) in about 1975 on a 747. Unfortunately it was right when the Lebanon civil war started (I saw parts of the city on fire) so we could not get off the plane in Beyrouth. Otherwise it was a good experience.
Yes. I recall in 1978 flew from CDG to HKG on an AF 747-200 routed CDG-NCE-TLV-THR-DEL-BKK-HKG. Just imagine that route via stops in both TLV and THR being flown today!
in my youth I travelled a lot with the DC8 on long haul flights, also to and from the middle east by KLM/AF; got the idea the nowadays they fly slower then in the 70's... can somebody explain?
Newer planes use turbofan engines compared to the turbojet engines of old. Turbojets can reach higher speeds but turbofans are more efficient and ironically more powerful on account of their size, but slower.
@@antman5474 thanks! learned a bit again.
Why DC-8 is faster than B747 ?
From when will Air France flights to Iran resume?
Soon. As Iranian sanctions are being lifted by the US in a bit
@@Kuricang31 i hope so
never
la ligne paris theran est la meilleur je le prend chaque anne pour aller en iran
BonjourAbtyn ,
Merci pour votre fidélité✈
Bonne journée.
Jimmy
La ligne meilleure est Iran Air et Alitalia
Bom vídeo
Je m'attendais a la fameuse video de 1979 avec Khomeini descendant du 747 mais AF fait du politiquement correct alors que c'est peut etre le grand tournant de l'histoire de cette ligne.
Funny that's omitted. Very funny.
Du politiquement correct ? C'est la honte, oui !
@@williamreith1186 Exactly, very ironic...
@@Bellasie1 Bien sur
When customer service was still a thing
and one day in 1979 Ayatollah Khamenei arrived to Iran by this flight
Air France can very well set up their base in India in Gujarat at Surat west coast of India.
From their they can operate via Gujarat from Surat First stop to any international destination, Maximum they will get US, Europe, Canada and Australia. OR
They can operate From Surat to direct domestic first stop to in line International second stop.
Hope This message could at least reach to Air France Planning and Operations management.
Why would AF want a base in those places ?
No chance. The market is still small to the point AF couldn't make a profit out of it. If there is a city in India that AF should served it should be Pondicherry as it was a favorite destination for French citizens, not Gujarat
What?! LMAO AHAHAH first of all it has nothing to do with this video, and why would a french airline company want a hub in india?!?! Also, it's a tiny city that nobody wants to go to so no direct flights will not be there, it doesn't make any sense. and I don't think Air France company will even look at an insignificant youtube comment like yours...
@@Kuricang31 not even that. Is this a joke seriously?!
Fantástica evolução! Mas triste como é perceptível a involução do conforto oferecido aos passageiros: menor espaço e poltronas que mais se parecem como tábuas forradas por tecidos.
Enquanto isso, a business da AF 'e top!
1:48
ca avait l'air plus moderne il y a 70 ans que maintenant...
On ne voit pas grand chose de spécifique à l'Iran ou Téhéran. Honnêtement, les images d'archives pourraient être à propos de n'importe quelle destination...🤔
Magnifik video!! (Suedois est tres facile, non?)
swedish n'a rien a voir avec ce video
My favorite airplane is 747
Fascinating to see how flying developed, and Air France always seemed to conduct service with a touch of elegance. Maintain this, please, and do not join the downward spiral so many airlines seem engaged in.
Alitalia also is like AF
Uh, what a wonderful time it was before Islam destroyed Iran again. I was a kid in Tehran back then and I clearly remember Air France’s office in Tehran. Unfortunately the same airline brought Khomeini to my country, shame.
Alitalia keeps flying
Remember when the shah of Iran used Concorde to daily fly in his own lunch from Paris?
Remember when Khomeini the devil arrived by boeing In 1979
from Rome
Et puis vous avez porté khomeini en 1979... 😂
Ma compagnie !
c'est pas la mienne
I guess that the next aircraft iteration will take six or more hours to traverse the same route.
Aviation tourism will cease to exist by 2030. Anyone who has the money and wants to travel for long trips will do so by train or ship after 2030. This is the end of the oil abundance that is needed to keep society as we know it running. But the collapse is already being felt in 2022, but few have the knowledge to perceive it, in 2025 some will wake up, in 2030 anyone will know why the world economic situation is in darkness. It is the end of abundant and cheap energy from hydrocarbons, oil, gas and coal.
,.........................,,.,,.
All thanks to Liberals and Democrats for scaring us all 😘
Not even true
Very attractive woman @ 5.38
Before radical islam
wow they let people smoke, imagine how stinky the cabin was
YES they let people smoke. Passengers were happy and relaxed in those days, not silent and tense like today. The cabin was not stinky or smoky as in those days aircraft cabins were properly ventilated as this was before the airlines decided to cut costs by using recycled rather than fresh air ventilation. For those who travelled in First Class, the cigarettes were free.
I used to smoke on the American Airlines flight from Panama City, Panama back to Miami in the 90s. Since plane originated outside the US, smoking was allowed.
@@semsemeini7905 Not exactly. It varied from airline to airline, but the no smoking sign was usually turned off before the fasten seat belt sign was turned off and the fasten seat belt sign for the decent was usually turned on well before the non-smoking sign. You know that chime sound often heard shortly after take off, which is the crew release. That is the moment when most airlines would turn off the non-smoking sign. One airline that comes to mind as allowing smoking from the very first possible opportunity was the Danish airline Maersk Air who used to turn off the no smoking sign almost the very second the aircraft wheels left the runway.
Smoking was of course prohibited during take off, landing and while the aircraft was on the ground.
Swissair distributed complimentary Cuban cigars to first class passengers on their trans Atlantic routes after the main dining service. There was very little odour and most people, even nonsmokers, did not mind the very small traces of smoke, the cabin air was very agreeable. Those days of luxury and civility are gone forever.
Imaginez deux jours de vol à côté d'un mec qui n'arrête pas de cloper …. Moi je l'occis avec sa ceinture de sécurité !!!
C Claire, je suis trop jeune mais mon pere me raconte que quand il prennait l'avion plus jeune, les gens fumaient, et comme CT un endroit fermer, CT affreux mdr
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yeah iran was once a much safer country before the islamic regime.
And it still is. Try to commit sexual assault and you can say goodbye to this world
Margh bar on 3 folan shodeh keh 👎 kardan
The country of iran miss you😭
no they don't, Iran misses Alitalia
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