Ah yes, I remember the 5th November 1997 ... I was due out to Paris from T4 that evening. The rain was torrential and the roads to the airport gridlocked and then the airport was gridlocked!!
They combined a couple of flights and we left very late, getting to CDG at about midnight. Which was irritating, as I was on the ORY flight. So they drove us from CDG to ORY in a coach at gone midnight, round the Périphérique in the pouring rain ...
I got about five hours sleep and staggered into the client for 09:00 to be told that they had made a mistake and I was not needed that day ...
The fact that I was paid for having to wait at T4 for hours (including on the a/c for about 90 mins) and all the rest did not really compensate.
I was glad to hear that all on board G-VSKY had a happy ending to the story and the picture (linked above) is quite something.